17 Depositions, Live: What Repeat Use Actually Looks Like

The bad moment every litigator knows

You read the transcript two weeks later and see the answer that changed the case — the objective you never got back to, the question you should have asked while the witness was still in the chair. The miss was never that the fact was impossible to find. It is that the window to use it was minutes, and it closed.

Demur follows the examination live, against your outline and your record, and puts the next useful question in front of you while the witness can still answer it.

Her workflow, deposition after deposition

Before every examination she uploads her outline. During it, she tracks coverage live instead of taking notes — objectives close as testimony lands, so she always knows what is still open while the witness is still in the chair. At the end, she uses the coverage map to confirm nothing was left unexamined.

She is not a beta tester checking a box. Seventeen depositions in, the workflow held because it removed the part of the job she trusted least: her own end-of-day memory of what got covered.

What she taught the product, in her words

“Doctors blather. I only realize it was a non-answer when I read the transcript later.”

So the product flags the non-answer while the witness can still respond — phrased as “potentially evasive, consider follow-up,” never as an accusation.

“Did I cover everything? I check at the end.”

So coverage is live: objectives close as testimony lands, and nothing leaves the room unexamined by accident.

“A witness went off-outline on subpoenaed testimony and I had no section for it.”

So unexpected topics get captured — the new provider, the new fact, the subject nobody prepped for — instead of disappearing into the transcript.

“Contradictions in my cases are with the chart, not the witness's own statements.”

So physician examinations check chart against testimony, with the exact page attached to every flag.

The honest engineering note: early versions tried to alert on contradictions across the whole file. In med-mal, the record is the chart, and broad-file contradiction alerts misfired — too noisy to trust. We narrowed to high-precision flags attorneys told us they would act on. The product abstains: fewer, better flags, and every flag opens its source page. That is a deliberate design choice, not a limitation we hope you won't notice.

Two more on the record

“Live deposition assistance is something we've been talking about for a long time. I think it would be something litigators would find really, really compelling. Something Harvey doesn't do.”

— Litigation counsel, Am Law 50 firm, on the record

“We realize this is where things are going… it would be good to make use of these tools rather than be left behind.”

— Thomas Quinn, Miami plaintiff firm owner, on training and quality control across associates

Built by litigators, proven in real rooms

Demur is a team of litigators and AI researchers. The product was developed in stealth across real depositions, not demos — which is why the workflow above reads like a deposition and not like a feature list.

Grade us the way she did

Send a closed case through the live path. Free.

The founding-firm proof event: send the raw audio, your real pre-deposition outline, and a binder capped at 10 documents from a closed, redacted deposition. We play it through the live product at deposition speed. You grade what surfaced.