Verbit Launches Legal Visor, An AI-Powered Tool To Deliver Real-Time Deposition Insights

At Legalweek today, Verbit, a company specializing in transcription technology for a variety of speech-intensive industries, is launching Legal Visor, a new AI-powered platform designed to provide litigators with real-time insights during depositions and other legal proceedings. The platform, which leverages Verbit’s expertise in speech recognition technology, aims to give attorneys a competitive edge by flagging inconsistencies and providing actionable intelligence during testimony.

At the core of Legal Visor is Verbit’s Captivate technology, a proprietary transcription platform that provides highly accurate real-time transcription of spoken content. The company has developed domain-specific models for legal terminology to ensure accuracy in legal settings, Matan Barak, director of product management, explained during a product demonstration last week.

“The real differentiator that we have is where we are coming from,” Barak said. “The importance of making the transcription as accurate as possible is the key point here. And making it real time — it’s not two minutes after that it’s sending me the recording, it’s a pure real-time solution.”

The system goes beyond basic transcription by connecting to case documents and using that information to improve both transcription accuracy and generate insights through its AI engine.

Litigation-Focused Features

Legal Visor offers several key features designed specifically for the litigation process:

• Inconsistency detection: The system flags discrepancies between what a witness says during a deposition and what appears in case documents or previous testimony.
• Intelligent search: Attorneys can search within testimony and case documents using semantic and generative queries.
• Automatic speaker identification: The system can identify speakers either manually or automatically by capturing voice signatures after about 15-30 seconds of speech.
• Multi-language support: The platform supports more than 50 languages for transcription and translation, allowing bilingual depositions to be transcribed and translated in real time.
• Chaptering and summaries: The system automatically generates topics and summaries for easy review.

Upcoming features will include admission validation, which will help ensure admissions are clear and defensible, and question rephrasing suggestions.

Strategic Advantages

During the demonstration, Barak highlighted how the platform creates a knowledge graph from case documents and depositions, enabling it to surface relevant information during live proceedings.

“We know how to make sure that every spoken content will be seamlessly integrated into the legal workflow,” Barak said. “We want to make voice actionable in any phase of the legal case.”

While the lead attorney conducting a deposition may be too focused to monitor the insights in real time, the platform is particularly valuable for second-chair attorneys, Barak said, who can use the analysis to suggest follow-up questions or alert the lead attorney to important discrepancies.

To help with this, Legal Visor’s insight panel is constantly providing updates that include a summary of the session so far and chaptering.

“We are extracting automatically all of the topics of the conversation of the session and creating a short summary of them,” Barak said. “It’s very important to show the location of where we found this specific chapter. And on top of all of those, we are also detecting inconsistencies in real time.”

Industry Partnerships

Verbit developed Legal Visor in collaboration with law firms including Fisher Phillips and Smith, Gambrell & Russell, which served as design partners during the development process.

“As a firm, we’re committed to equipping our attorneys with the most innovative and advanced tools and resources to best serve our clients and secure the best possible outcomes,” said Evan Shenkman, chief knowledge and innovation officer at Fisher Phillips, in a statement provided by Verbit. “An AI-powered tool that can provide real-time insights during depositions? That’s a no-brainer.”

The product is officially launching today, and Verbit will be demonstrating it at Legalweek as well as at ABA Techshow the following week.

Future Developments

Barak also provided a glimpse into future capabilities being developed in Verbit’s labs. One is sentiment analysis, which will extract sentiments and emotions from speakers’ voices.

Another is technology that analyzes body language and facial expressions during video testimony to provide additional layers of insight.

Barak demonstrated with a video of someone being questioned by a police officer. The transcription provides not just what they are saying, but a description of their movements.

“Sherry turns her head toward Keith, then looks back at Officer Jones,” it describes. “Keith moves his foot back and forth as if he is nervous or restless.”

While this feature is still in development and not part of the initial launch, it demonstrates the company’s vision for how AI could further enhance legal proceedings in the future.

Pricing Model

Verbit has opted for a simple subscription model for Legal Visor based on the number of users rather than usage or storage metrics. According to Barak, the pricing will be “a few hundred dollars per user” for litigation team members.

“On day one, we want to make it super simple. No usage, no storage, no anything that relates to those,” Barak explained, adding that the company might adjust the pricing model in the future as they better understand where clients find the most value.