LighthouseIQ Testimonial with Karl Gunderson from Kirkland & Ellis

Hear from Karl Gunderson from Kirkland & Ellis on how LighthouseIQ allows him and his team to get to insight faster by being able to concentrate on the significant facts rather than trying to locate them within a vast universe of information.

Transcript:

Hi, Karl. Hi Stacy. How are you doing today? Good. It's good to see you. Good To see you too. Thanks for spending a little time with us today. Why don't you start out by telling us a little bit more about your role at Kirkland Analysis and the types of matters that you handle? Yeah. I'm a partner at Kirkland. My practice is really involves the intersection of traditional discovery, preparing documents for production, meeting discovery obligations and the like, and preparing case strategy. Digging into the facts, understanding what those documents all show largely in the mass tort context. So large, very, you know, high value litigation where facts and understanding the facts is really important.

Well, so you just talked a little bit about case strategy, so I'd love to hear more about how you've used IQ Case Strategy, Part of litigation. It's really important that we understand what's in the materials, especially early on in the case. Yeah, it's important to develop case strategy that's based on the actual evidence, based on the actual facts. And then we've, uh, for a long time been partnering with the Lighthouse team and members of the Lighthouse team to help us weed through cull through the, you know, vast amount of material that often gets collected and produced in a case to really focus on what matters. It's important to be able to cull through those and really, you know, develop case themes, understand how particular issues are addressed in the documents, and then really leverage that information to be able to build out, uh, you know, case themes, case arguments, develop our strategy for the case.

And I think you've used case strategy for Depo Prep in the past. Yeah, and we've actually, in a number of our cases, have really been able to leverage, you know, the, the deposition preparation to have our team focus on the substance of the case, not spending time reading through, you know, a hundred thousand documents produced for custodian, but, you know, focusing on the 100, 200, 300 that really matter the most for that person. That allows our team to focus on the substance as opposed to, you know, trying to figure out where in the vast, uh, universe of documents out there, uh, that information is. That's great. So maybe touch a little bit on how AI is changing how you handle your client work at Kirkland.

Yeah, it's a really exciting time, I think, for the entire field. I literally started in, in 2010 working on deposition prep, where like I had partners who printed off tens of thousands of documents on hard paper and we would sift through them, flipping through them and putting sticky notes on them. Since then, we've come a long way. The technology we have, especially with the evolving AI technologies, allows us to do more, um, more work and more effectively, right by, you know, early on in a case, understanding what the materials are, what the issues are, what the evidence shows, right, what the document shows, we're able to build out better case strategies that help our clients, you know, achieve their goals and litigation.

So Now that we've rolled out the full suite of applications under LighthouseIQ, I'm curious, beyond IQ Case Strategy, do you see yourself using some of the other tools that we've rolled out? We really do. We've really appreciated the Lighthouse case strategy system and method for, you know, allowing us to do our work most efficiently and effectively for our clients. That said, I think, you know, with the advent of all the AI technologies and the implementation of those into the Lighthouse suite of tools that we've been talking about, we're really, really excited to leverage those materials and do more with them. In particular, the IQ Answers. We're really excited to, to try out on our next case to really help our teams and allow our teams to leverage the information that we're able to glean most quickly from, again, a, a large set of documents.

That's Great. Karl, thank you so much for spending time with us today. We really appreciate your partnership. Absolutely. Thank you, Stacy.