Make your life easier
Glide through the digest
OptiDep's unique in-house computer software boils-down your deposition (or trial) transcript to roughly just-under a quarter – to a narrative in the first person, as though the draft of a post-deposition affidavit.
Understand the transcript
What the witness saw fit to say, and the attorneys allowed, you will see – though tightened. Arrived is readability, but without the possibly arbitrary censoring of so-called 'irrelevant' testimony.
Save time
Championed and empowered is your ability to mine the testimony as your genius advises. Quicker than ever, you can see (1) where the testimony looms large, (2) where it melts away, and (3) the valuable gray areas.
From our algorithms to your digest
- To create your digest, our associate runs your transcript through OptiDep's unique in-house software – summoning armies of algorithms to such tasks as:
- In MS Word (doc) format, your document contains the digest itself above a footnote line. Below the line, is your transcript – generally yellow-highlighted wherever the words have been quoted verbatim (and whose line numbers can be made visible.)
(1) identifying proper nouns;
(2) classifying words by the parts of speech;
(3) converting questions into propositions;
(4) coupling answers to propositions;
(5) identifying words to include; and
(6) striking chaff.
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How it works
Get the transcript
In plain text (.txt) format – with page and line numbers.
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Send the transcript
Using the button on this page, send your transcript.
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Get the digest
Pay $3.00 per page of transcript, and receive the digest.
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Attorneys sing
I represented my client at deposition. Afterwards, we needed to discuss the advisability, and likely course, of a trial. (1) Look! Your answer came across as a damning admission! (2) Over here, it shows you contradicted yourself! Your digest permitted me to do this with composure and structure.
We sent a rookie to the EBT. Our associate was pretty darn good. But everyone needs improvement, and your digest served as a useful springboard. Here, if there'd been a little more follow-up, we'd have tighter testimony! Etc. And my new colleague had already reviewed the digest, so that I did not need to be critical directly.
"Gotcha!" I kept saying after the deposition, savoring the moments when I'd trapped the witness beyond escape. Then your digest came. True, our position was strong – but it was too early for me to stop striving. My bubble had now burst. It was time to tighten the screws, and chart the course to victory.
