AI Litigation Intelligence Strategies and SolutionsTM
Chair
Janine Menendez-Aponte
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Co-Chair
Angelise Petrillo
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The legal landscape has changed. Today’s highest-exposure cases are not won or lost on the facts alone—they are shaped by narrative, psychology, and the deliberately designed approaches employed by the plaintiffs’ bar, including Reptile and Edge strategies intended to inflame risk, fear, and emotion.
Nuclear verdicts are not unpredictable. They are often the result of identifiable liability themes, unchallenged assumptions, and highly coordinated plaintiff strategies.
ALISSTM, our AI Litigation Intelligence Strategies and SolutionsTM Practice, fully integrated with our Excess Monitoring & Parachute Trial Team, is designed to help identify and neutralize those risks early—before they take hold.
We integrate a Litigator in the LoopTM with AI-augmented strategic analysis to support litigation strategy. Through structured prompts and matter-specific modeling, the team helps identify liability drivers, quantify exposure, and surface strategic vulnerabilities to inform defense planning. Our methodology also fuels an innovative defense playbook through strategic mapping of adversary counsel and experts.
AI-Driven Case Intelligence & Strategy Development
Our methodology combines legal expertise while leveraging AI:
- File AI Analysis. Components of the case are synthesized through targeted AI prompts to uncover liability drivers and narrative risks.
- Liability & Exposure Modeling. We evaluate comparative fault, damages frameworks, venue dynamics, and jury risk factors to inform strategic options.
- Reptile & Edge Neutralization. We identify where opposing counsel is likely to deploy fear-based “safety rule” or system failure arguments and develop strategies to dismantle those themes through deposition, motion practice, and trial presentation.
- Expert Intelligence & Positioning. Opposing experts are analyzed to expose inconsistencies and support targeted Daubert challenges and cross-examination strategies.
- Strategic Playbook Development. We develop customized litigation roadmaps aligned to deposition objectives, motion strategies, expert positioning and trial themes.
Strategic Integration with Excess Monitoring
For excess carriers and high-limit stakeholders, early visibility and independent analysis are critical. Our AI Litigation IntelligenceTM team works alongside primary defense counsel to:
- Provide independent, data-driven assessments of liability and exposure
- Identify gaps, or risks, in the current defense strategy
- Evaluate whether the case is being positioned appropriately for trial, resolution, or escalation
- Deliver intelligence that informs reserve setting, settlement strategy, and trial readiness
Trial Strategies, Parachute and Monitoring Trial Team Alignment
When a case escalates or trial becomes imminent, our Trial Strategies, Parachute and Monitoring Team is prepared to engage—armed with the intelligence developed through this process.
This creates a seamless transition from analysis to execution, ensuring that trial strategy is not developed in isolation, but is instead grounded in a deep, data-informed understanding of the case.
The Advantage
In today’s litigation environment, the difference between a defensible outcome and a nuclear verdict often comes down to preparation, timing, and insight.
Our integrated approach is designed to deliver:
- Earlier identification of exposure-driving themes
- Proactive neutralization of plaintiff tactics
- Better-informed strategic decision-making for carriers and clients
- Stronger trial positioning
- Actionable insights that inform litigation strategy to drive improved outcomes
Plaintiff Counsel has a playbook. Now you can too!
For further information about ALISSTM, our AI Litigation Intelligence Strategies and SolutionsTM Practice Group, and how our Litigator in the LoopTM is supported by our Paralegal in the LoopTM, please contact Daniel Santaniello



