I got discovery the night before the hearing.

You got the case, and the discovery just dropped. Your hearing is in a few days, maybe tomorrow. You've got hours of footage and a stack of documents, and no time to review it all before you're standing up in front of a judge asking the officer questions.

Right now, you need to ask good questions that lock the officer into a story on the record, and to do that, you need to know what's in this discovery fast.

However, with so much discovery and a night to prepare, it's practically impossible to review it all manually.

Get everything into Reduct at once

Drag all your discovery into Reduct. Every audio and video file (body-worn camera footage, 911 calls, interrogations) gets transcribed automatically, and every document and photo runs through OCR.

You don't have to kick any of this off by hand. It processes in the background while you start going through what's already finished.

💡Note:

If your office already has a case management system or cloud storage set up, we can work with your IT department on an integration so anything that lands there comes into Reduct on its own. Reach out to our support team to get that set up, and you won't need to manually pull files every time new discovery comes in.

Get a quick read on a dense document before you dig in

Most of what shows up the night before a hearing is paperwork. You might get numerous files at once, and one of them could run a thousand pages. You don't have time to read all of that tonight.

Open the document, click Interact, then select Summarize by topic.

Your summary appears at the top of the document as a thematic summary, a handful of topics, each with a short description and a set of page numbers you can click to jump straight to that spot in the document.

Instead of opening each document one by one, you can also select the files you want covered, or select all of them, and run a batch summary across the group.

Reduct runs the summary on every file in that selection and gives each one back its own summary, the same result you'd get summarizing them one at a time.

💡Pro tip:

Instead of a general topic or a chronological summary, you can ask your own questions. Click Interact, then use a custom question template, something like "What identifying information about witnesses exists in this document?" if that's the specific thing you need pulled out.

Do the same for hours of video or audio

The same problem shows up with recordings. A two-hour interrogation the night before a hearing isn't something you have time to sit through. Upload it the same way, let it transcribe, then run Summary by topic on it just like you would a document.

Once it's ready, you'll get a short rundown of what came up across those two hours, enough to know what to ask about at the hearing before listening to the whole interrogation.

💡Note:

Reduct doesn't decide what matters for your case, that's still on you. What it gives you is a starting point on files you'd otherwise have no real shot at touching in time.

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