In LawSites, Bob Ambrogi covers the launch of DepoSim, an AI-powered deposition simulator developed by AltaClaro in partnership with Verbit.
The article details how the platform provides attorneys with realistic, on-demand deposition practice sessions — complete with an AI witness, opposing counsel, and a court reporter — and delivers rubric-based feedback at the end. Users can configure witness personalities, opposing counsel styles, and upload their own deposition outlines, mirroring real-world practice.
Ambrogi walks through a live demo of the product, showing how the simulation unfolds as a spoken exchange and how the feedback engine evaluates performance across multiple skill categories — from questioning technique to witness management — with specific transcript references and actionable guidance.
The piece also covers the five-week beta pilot with six Am Law 100 firms, in which participants logged more than 160 hours of testing, 97 percent strongly agreed that DepoSim is valuable for litigation training, and 94 percent said they would use it again. Orrick's Chief Innovation Officer Wendy Butler Curtis called it "the AI-driven innovation our profession needs."