The Analyze Depositions workflow generates a structured analysis of your deposition transcript before you begin your review. Vincent AI organises testimony by topic and can identify key exchanges, witnesses, and entities involved. The results give you a starting point for trial preparation. This article covers how to select analysis tasks and work with the results.
Important: All Vincent AI output requires final review and due diligence by a qualified legal professional before use in litigation strategy, pleadings, or court proceedings.
Select and run tasks
When you upload a deposition transcript, Vincent identifies the document type and generates a set of tasks. Each task appears as a selectable card on the screen. You can run tasks individually or select several to process simultaneously.
- In Clio Work, click Vincent in the left navigation.
- Upload your deposition transcript. For upload instructions, see Analyse Legal Documents in Clio Work.
- On the Analyse a Deposition screen, review the tasks Vincent has generated.
- Select the tasks relevant to your immediate work. You can select multiple tasks and run them together.
- Click the arrow to submit.
Tip: If your matter involves multiple witnesses, uploading both transcripts simultaneously allows Vincent to generate a cross-deposition comparison in a single session.
Understand tasks and outputs
Vincent generates tasks based on the content and complexity of the transcript. The tasks below are representative of what you may see when you upload a deposition transcript.
Extracts a chronological sequence of facts from the transcript. Each entry identifies the date or time period, describes the event, quotes the relevant passage verbatim, and links to the source page in the document viewer.
Produces a structured breakdown of key themes covered in the testimony, organised by subject matter with supporting references.
When multiple transcripts are uploaded, Vincent asks which deposition to summarise or offers to analyse both. If both are selected, the output includes a high-level takeaways section per party, a combined high-level takeaways section identifying fact areas relevant across both transcripts, and a side-by-side issues chart comparing testimony across the two depositions. All entries include inline linked citations from the relevant transcripts.
Vincent can also tailor the summary output for specific themes such as trial themes and impeachment points, asset division and support issues, or witness credibility assessment.
Produces an organised summary of the testimony with the original questions, witness answers, and source references grouped by topic. Each entry documents what the witness established in plain language, the exact question asked, the witness's exact answer, the source page number linked to the transcript, and the line range within that page.
Maps the complaint's claims to supporting or contradicting testimony in the deposition. Output opens with a plain-prose statement identifying which complaint and deposition were used and why, followed by a numbered list of causes of action extracted from the complaint. Each claim produces a table with eight columns: QA Synthesis, Question, Answer, Page, Line, Claims, Assessment, and Source.
Note: This task requires a complaint or pleading document in addition to the deposition transcript. Vincent prompts you to upload the complaint after the task is selected. Vincent also asks which party you represent before generating output.
Cross-references testimony across depositions to identify topic similarities and differences. Output includes a list of depositions reviewed with dates and linked citations, followed by common topics organised by numbered section and lettered subsection. Each subsection compares how both depositions address that topic in plain prose with inline linked citations from both transcripts. Vincent also offers to convert the output into a fraudulent concealment element chart, impeachment chart, or complaint-to-deposition allegation crosswalk.
Note: This task requires at least two deposition transcripts to be uploaded before Vincent can process the comparison.
Cross-references the deposition against other uploaded documents to identify topic similarities and differences. Output identifies the documents compared with dates and linked citations, followed by common topics in plain prose with inline linked citations from both documents. The output concludes with an overall comparison covering the principal areas of overlap and the principal differences between the documents.
Note: This task requires an additional reference document. Vincent prompts you to upload the reference document after the task is selected.
Identifies every individual and organisation referenced in the transcript. Output is a seven-column table: sequential entry number, entity name, functional role, detected aliases, short description of involvement, associated documents, and linked source citations.
Jurisdiction-specific tasks generate research memos based on the transcript's content and governing law. These tasks vary by matter and may not appear for every deposition.
Each memo is organised into the following sections:
- Short response
- Summary
- Background and relevant law
- Detailed analysis
- Exceptions and caveats
- Conclusion
- Legal authorities: source extracts, relevance scores, and citations, filterable by case, statute, regulation, administrative decision, and secondary source
Work with the results
Navigate to source testimony
Select any linked page number in the source citation to open the exact location in the transcript. Verify context before relying on output in a brief or motion.
Save to Legal Pad
Select the Legal Pad icon in the response footer to save output to Legal Pad. From Legal Pad, you can edit, annotate, and save content directly to Clio Manage.
Add more tasks
Scroll to the top of your conversation and select Add More Tasks to run additional analyses without re-uploading the document.
Continue the conversation
Use the Ask any follow-up question text box to request additional analysis or ask Vincent questions about the testimony. For example:
- Summarise all testimony related to post-separation withdrawals.
- What are the strongest impeachment points from this transcript?
- Draft a list of follow-up discovery requests based on gaps in this testimony.
Up Next
- Prepare for trial: see Build Arguments in Clio Work to develop a theory of the case using the facts extracted here
- Analyse another document type: see Analyse Complaints in Clio Work to identify claims, defences, and recommended responses
- Cross-witness comparison: see Compare Documents in Clio Work to surface contradictions across multiple transcripts