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Litigation boutiques are frequently instructed on complex, high value disputes. Their advantage is the care and attention they take. You speak directly to partners to help with your complex legal challenges. The flip-side of this is that there are fewer staff members to trawl through documents to find that ‘smoking gun’.
Responsibility for understanding the facts usually sits with the partners or senior associates running the case. This means that creating leverage with technology is a strategic imperative.
Wexler works with a number of pre-eminent litigation boutiques. The lawyers at these firms are litigation experts, with deep, specialised experience and vital subject matter expertise. But what they do not often have is the resources of a larger firm. That’s where technology becomes a superpower.
Where traditional methods start to strain
Even after disclosure is cut down, factual understanding is assembled manually. Lawyers move between long documents, draft chronologies and notes, revisiting earlier assumptions as new material emerges. Important events can remain buried in correspondence. Inconsistencies surface gradually, often after positions have already hardened. This is not simply a question of efficiency. When the factual picture develops slowly or unevenly, strategy is shaped before the record is fully understood. Pressure points appear late. Revisiting core assumptions becomes costly.
Treating facts as a first-class object
Wexler approaches this work differently. Rather than organising evidence around documents, it focuses on the facts those documents contain. We treat facts, not documents, as the fundamental unit of analysis. For boutique teams, this changes how early case assessment is conducted. Chronologies can be built quickly and updated as evidence evolves. Contradictions across witnesses or custodians are surfaced systematically rather than discovered incidentally. Gaps in the record are visible while there is still time to address them. Simply identifying relevant documents is table stakes. Finding out what actually happened is what Fact Intelligence makes possible.
Facts as currency for high stakes disputes
As matters progress, the value of a clear factual matrix compounds. Assertions can be tested directly against the evidence. Competing narratives can be explored without retracing weeks of manual work.
The shift is not simply faster factual work, but an entirely different approach. Instead of repeatedly reconstructing the facts at each stage of the case, the narrative becomes a stable asset that litigators can rely on and be tested against as the matter develops.
What does this mean in practice? Litigation boutiques can take on better resourced firms, with a fraction of the resources. Critical factual information can be found, and used, from initial instructions right the way through to trial. David can indeed take on Goliath.