Codira ESQ Litigation
Know the Case. Find What Matters. Build the Argument.
Litigation creates mountains of information. Pleadings. Discovery. Depositions. Emails. Exhibits. Medical records. Contracts. Witness statements. Research. Deadlines. Damages. Thousands of facts scattered across thousands of pages.
Codira ESQ turns the entire matter into connected litigation intelligence. Every document, fact, person, event, issue, allegation, piece of evidence, and legal authority becomes part of a structured case model your team can search, analyze, verify, and use to prepare the case.
Less time hunting. More time thinking.
Your Case Shouldn’t Live in a Folder.See the Case as a Case.
Traditional case files tell you where documents are stored. Codira ESQ helps you understand what those documents mean to the case.
Upload the matter and Codira ESQ begins building connections between:
Instead of repeatedly searching folders, opening PDFs, rereading depositions, and rebuilding timelines, your team works from an evolving intelligence layer built around the case.
See the case as a case—not a collection of files.
From Case File to Case Intelligence.Every Document Becomes More Useful.
Codira ESQ analyzes the materials in the matter and helps identify the information buried inside them.
Also reads:
- Reports
- Photographs
- Research
Advantage
Information becomes easier to find and relate across the matter.
Benefit
Attorneys spend less time reconstructing context and more time developing strategy.
The goal isn’t simply to summarize documents. It’s to connect what they contain to the larger case.
Build the Case Timeline Automatically.See What Happened—and When.
Chronology can determine how a case is understood. Codira ESQ identifies dates and events throughout the matter and brings them together into a connected timeline.
Jan 8
Agreement signed
Jan 8
Agreement signed
Feb 21
First missed payment
Feb 21
First missed payment
Mar 14
Meeting with the vendor
Accounts conflict: Tue or Thu?
Mar 14
Meeting with the vendor
Accounts conflict: Tue or Thu?
Apr 3
Notice of breach
Apr 3
Notice of breach
May 20
Complaint filed
May 20
Complaint filed
See:
- What happened
- Who was involved
- What evidence supports it
- Which documents reference it
- What issues it affects
- Where accounts conflict
Click an event and trace it back to the underlying material.
Turn thousands of pages into a story your team can actually follow.
Evidence Intelligence.Evidence Is More Valuable When You Know What It Proves.
Codira ESQ helps organize evidence around the issues that matter.
Instead of asking “Where was that document?”, start asking “What evidence supports this element?”
That is a fundamentally different way to work a case.
Claim & Element Mapping.Know What You Need to Prove.
Break claims and defenses into their underlying legal elements and connect the matter’s evidence to each one.
Codira ESQ can help your team see where the case is:
- Well supported
- Dependent on disputed facts
- Missing evidence
- Dependent on a particular witness
- Vulnerable to contrary evidence
- Waiting on discovery
Identify gaps while you still have time to do something about them.
Witness Intelligence.Know the Witness Before You Enter the Room.
Build a connected profile for every important witness.
Prepare for interviews, depositions, cross-examinations, and trial with the relevant matter intelligence in one place.
Don’t just search what a witness said. Understand how it fits the case.
Find Contradictions.Cases Can Turn on One Inconsistency.
One witness says the meeting happened Tuesday. An email places it Thursday. A deposition contradicts an earlier declaration. A financial record doesn’t match an allegation.
Codira ESQ can surface potentially inconsistent information across the matter so attorneys can investigate it. Every important finding should lead back to the underlying source.
“We met on Tuesday, the fourteenth.”
Deposition of the operations manager, p. 42
“Confirming Thursday’s meeting at 10.”
Email to the vendor, sent the day before
Find it. Examine it. Verify it. Use your judgment.
Discovery Intelligence.Stop Treating Discovery Like Document Storage.
Track discovery as part of the intelligence model.
Organize and connect:
- Requests for Production
- Interrogatories
- Requests for Admission
- Responses
- Objections
- Productions
- Depositions
- Subpoenas
- Outstanding requests
- Discovery deadlines
Connect discovery requests directly to claims, issues, evidence, witnesses, and documents.
Know what you asked for, what you received, what’s missing, and why it matters.
Deposition Intelligence.Prepare With the Entire Case Behind You.
Codira ESQ helps bring together the information relevant to a deposition before questioning begins.
Before
Events, prior statements, exhibits and open questions for the witness
During
Contradictions and the claims they touch, at hand
After
The transcript becomes another source in the case
For a witness, quickly surface:
- Important events
- Prior statements
- Relevant exhibits
- Contradictions
- Open factual questions
- Claims and defenses involving the witness
- Documents mentioning the witness
Then use the completed transcript as another intelligence source for the matter.
Preparation before. Intelligence during the case. Analysis after.
Depose™ by Codira ESQ.Take That Intelligence Into the Deposition.
Codira ESQ helps you understand the witness, evidence, claims, and disputed facts before questioning begins.
Depose™ brings that intelligence into the examination itself—with secure video depositions, real-time AI assistance, intelligent exhibit presentation, and transcript analysis.
- Prepare in Codira ESQ
- Examine in Depose
- Connect the results
Depose is its own application, $199 a month per user on your Codira ESQ subscription.
Ask the Entire Case.Get Answers Without Searching 5,000 Pages.
Ask questions in natural language:
- What evidence supports the plaintiff’s damages calculation?
- Show every reference to the March 14 meeting.
- What did this witness say about the contract?
- Which documents contradict this allegation?
- What evidence supports each element of this claim?
- Show me every communication between these two people.
Codira ESQ searches across the matter’s connected information to help your team locate relevant material. And where possible, answers remain connected to their sources.
AI becomes far more useful when it understands the matter.
Legal Research Connected to the Case.Research With Context.
Legal research shouldn’t exist in a separate universe from the facts. Connect authorities and legal issues directly to the matter.
Then connect that law to the facts and evidence that make it relevant.
Move from “What does the law say?” to “How does this authority relate to this case?”
Build Better Motions and Work Product.Start With the Intelligence You’ve Already Built.
When your team begins drafting, Codira ESQ already has context around the matter.
Use that intelligence to assist with:
- Case chronologies
- Deposition preparation
- Issue summaries
- Damages summaries
- Trial preparation
The advantage isn’t simply faster drafting.
It’s drafting that begins with organized matter context.
Damages Intelligence.Follow the Money.
For matters involving financial damages, organize the numbers alongside the evidence supporting them.
Connect:
- Transactions
- Invoices
- Payments
- Contracts
- Financial records
- Damage categories
- Calculations
- Supporting documents
Trace a number back to where it came from. Separate alleged damages from documented amounts and attorney-approved calculations.
Make the damages story easier to understand—and easier to support.
Prepare for Trial From Day One.Trial Preparation Shouldn’t Begin Two Weeks Before Trial.
As the case develops, Codira ESQ can help organize the intelligence that may eventually matter at trial.
Pleadings
Discovery
Depositions
Motions
Trial
- Witnesses
- Exhibits
- Key events
- Claims and defenses
- Supporting evidence
- Contradictions
- Authorities
- Damages
Instead of rebuilding the entire case at the end, your team continuously develops a structured case record.
Every stage of litigation contributes to trial readiness.
AI That Doesn’t Get the Final Word.Attorneys Stay in Control.
Generative AI can be extraordinarily useful, but legal work demands more than fluent answers. Codira ESQ is designed around specialized legal workflows, verification, deterministic controls, source grounding, and attorney review.
The system can help find, organize, connect, analyze, and draft. The attorney decides what it means and what gets used.
AI assists
Find, organize, connect, analyze, draft
Evidence supports
Every finding leads back to its source
Attorneys decide
What it means, and what gets used
AI assists. Evidence supports. Attorneys decide.
One Matter. One Intelligence Layer.All Connected Around the Same Case.
Your litigation team shouldn’t have to mentally reconnect information scattered across dozens of tools. Codira ESQ brings the matter together:
That means associates, partners, paralegals, litigation support, experts, and clients can work from a more coherent understanding of the matter—with access controlled according to their role.
What Changes With Codira ESQ?From Rebuilding the Case to Building On It.
Without Codira ESQ
- Search folders for documents.
- Reconstruct timelines manually.
- Reread transcripts looking for statements.
- Maintain disconnected spreadsheets.
- Search for evidence repeatedly.
- Rebuild case context for every assignment.
- Prepare for trial by pulling everything together again.
With Codira ESQ
- Search the case, not just files.
- Maintain a living chronology.
- Connect witnesses to statements and evidence.
- Map evidence to claims and elements.
- Surface potentially conflicting information.
- Preserve institutional knowledge throughout the matter.
- Build trial intelligence from the beginning.
Your Litigation Team Already Has the Information.Codira ESQ Helps Turn It Into Intelligence.
The winning fact may already be in the case file. The contradiction may already be in a deposition. The missing element may already be apparent from the evidence. The document you need may already have been produced.
The problem is finding the connection. Codira ESQ helps your team see the whole case.
Know more. Find faster. Prepare better.