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Discovery Response Drafting: From Interrogatories to Document Requests in Half the Time
Drafting answers to interrogatories and document requests is the unglamorous heart of litigation. AI can produce solid first drafts of objections and substantive responses while flagging exactly where attorney judgment is irreplaceable.
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- 1The premise
- 2interrogatories
- 3requests for production
- 4objections
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Section 1
The premise
First-draft discovery responses are mostly pattern matching; AI handles the patterns so attorneys spend their hours on the genuinely contested objections.
What AI does well here
- Generate standard objections (vague, overbroad, attorney-client privilege, work product) keyed to specific request language
- Draft substantive answers when given the underlying facts
- Cross-reference each request against the discovery scope agreed in the Rule 26(f) conference
- Produce a privilege log skeleton from a list of withheld documents
- Flag requests that appear to seek expert or attorney mental impressions
What AI cannot do
- Make the strategic call about whether to object or answer-and-object
- Determine privilege for genuinely close-call documents
- Sign the response (only counsel can certify it)
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