Workflow: Draft discovery requests

Category: Draft

Features and benefits

The
Draft Discovery Requests
workflow lets you generate strategic, properly formatted discovery requests, including interrogatories, requests for production of documents, and requests for admission, in a fraction of the time ordinarily required, by streamlining processes and utilizing CoCounsel skills and expert content from Westlaw and Practical Law.
The
Draft Discovery Requests
workflow uses expert content from Westlaw and Practical Law and your uploaded documents to generate discovery requests in a format tailored for the user-specified jurisdiction and venue. Each workflow output will include a wide breadth of questions phrased in the proper request type based on the facts of your case, drastically cutting down on the initial drafting time for a discovery request and letting you then add any strategy you want to implement via your own edits.

Practice tips

Upload at least 1 relevant document such as a filed Complaint, a filed Answer, or any motions filed prior to the request. The uploaded document will give the workflow context.
Upload additional relevant documents (as defined earlier) beyond the 1 initial required document.
Add a user prompt, such as notes on litigation strategy, to provide the workflow with further context and direction, and greatly enhance the resulting requests.
Depending on your user prompt, the workflow will generate interrogatories, requests for production of documents, requests for admission, or a combination of the types you've selected.

Limitations to keep in mind

The
Draft Discovery Requests
workflow requires that you upload documents that provide the workflow with context for your discovery requests. Without an uploaded document or a user prompt, the workflow will be unable to create discovery requests.
Keep in mind that the output is not a final version of a set of discovery requests ready to be served on opposing counsel but is instead equivalent to what a junior associate would produce as a 1st draft, completed in a fraction of the time.
The workflow will generate a maximum of 25 interrogatories (which is the federal court limit on interrogatories), and up to 50 requests for production of documents or requests for admission.
Files can be up to 500MB, except for text files, web pages, and rich text format files, which can be up to 20MB.
The workflow requires a Practical Law subscription in addition to a CoCounsel subscription but is available to subscribed users in the CoCounsel user interface.