Civil cases are won or lost in depositions, and a missed follow-up usually cannot be re-asked. Second Chair listens to the testimony live, judges every answer against the complaint and your goals, and drops the pinning follow-up into your outline seconds later, worded to be read aloud.
The examining lawyer is working the outline, listening for the answer that matters, and re-planning in real time. Large firms manage this with a second chair and realtime court-reporter feeds that can add thousands of dollars per deposition. The majority of American litigators, solo and small-firm lawyers, sit down across from the witness alone.
Upload the complaint PDF and your examination goals. Second Chair reads every allegation, even scanned filings, and drafts a complete, topic-ordered outline tied to the specific names, dates, and claims in your case. Mix in your own questions anywhere.
A complete examination outline, drafted from the complaint in about a minute.
Testimony is transcribed live, on-device, in real time. After every answer, Second Chair judges whether the witness just contradicted the record, made an admission worth locking in, revealed a new person or document, or whether your outline already has it covered.
On the record: the live transcript builds as the witness testifies.
Critical follow-ups appear in the outline seconds after the answer, worded to be read aloud verbatim. Questions are marked answered as the record develops. At breaks, you get a strategic read of the testimony against your case goals, including the defense the witness is setting up.
Recess read-out: "the witness is setting up an 'HR did it, not me' defense."
Speech-to-text runs entirely on your own machine. The audio never touches a cloud transcription service. A local-first record, built for a profession whose work product is privileged.
The speech model lives on your laptop and transcribes in a few hundred milliseconds. No audio upload, no third-party transcription vendor in your chain of custody.
The examination outline, transcript, and notes are stored locally with you, not scattered across someone else's cloud.
Second Chair is a prepared assistant, not the examining attorney. Every question it drafts is yours to ask, edit, or ignore. It is a tool for licensed attorneys, not legal advice.
Complaint in, outline out, on the record, and the moment a witness dodges, the follow-ups appear.
Second Chair is onboarding a first group of solo and small-firm litigators. Join the waitlist, or request a live demo and we'll walk you through a real examination.
