Legal Tech

Technology as a Competitive Advantage

At Meland Budwick, we don’t just use technology. We build it. Our firm has developed proprietary AI-powered tools designed specifically for litigation, enabling us to deliver higher-quality work product, faster, and at a lower cost to our clients.

While many firms are still figuring out how to use off-the-shelf AI tools, we are building custom applications tailored to the way we practice law. These tools are developed in-house by our attorneys, the same people who try cases and advise clients, ensuring that technology serves the practice, not the other way around.

How We Use AI

Litigation Preparation. We use AI to accelerate the preparation of pleadings, motions, and trial materials. Our proprietary tools allow attorneys to generate sophisticated first drafts grounded in relevant legal authority, which are then reviewed, refined, and finalized by experienced lawyers. This means clients get thoroughly researched work product in a fraction of the time traditional methods require.

Document Analysis. Our AI tools can ingest and analyze large volumes of documents, including opposing filings, contracts, and discovery materials, to identify key issues, inconsistencies, and strategic opportunities that might otherwise take days or weeks to surface.

Technology-Assisted Review. For large-scale document reviews, we use predictive coding and AI-driven review platforms to streamline the process, reduce costs, and improve accuracy.

Trial Presentation. We have a long track record of using advanced presentation technology in courtrooms, arbitrations, and mediations to present complex information clearly and persuasively.

Our Approach

We treat our AI tools the way we treat our legal strategies: as proprietary assets developed through deep expertise and continuous refinement. Every tool we build reflects our attorneys’ judgment about what matters in litigation — because a tool is only as good as the expertise behind it.

Critically, AI does not replace attorney judgment at our firm. It amplifies it. Every AI-assisted work product is reviewed and approved by experienced lawyers who are accountable to our clients and to the court. We maintain the same rigorous quality standards regardless of how the work is produced.

Staying Ahead

Our Managing Partner, Eric Ostroff, has spoken on the intersection of AI and legal ethics, and the firm actively monitors developments in legal technology to ensure we remain at the forefront. We believe that firms willing to invest in building, not just buying, AI capabilities will deliver meaningfully better outcomes for their clients.