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Chris Waters is the founder of Discover Docket, a litigation platform for California solo and small firms. A California litigator with 25 years of experience, he built Discover Docket around an ethical AI framework, DDEAS, so that AI legal work is validated, scored, and defensible — not just plausible. Discover Docket combines case management, drafting, docketing, research, and deposition analysis in one workspace, anchored by JILL, its built-in legal AI.

Chris Waters is the founder of Discover Docket, a litigation platform built for California solo practitioners and small firms. Drawing on 25 years as a California litigator, he set out to solve a problem he lived: the routine work of running a practice — calendaring, docketing, document organization, first-pass drafting, citation checking — consumes the hours that should go to strategy and judgment. Discover Docket combines case management, drafting, docketing, jurisdiction-aware research, native communications, and deposition analysis in a single workspace, anchored by JILL — Judicial Insights & Legal Logic — its built-in legal AI. Because legal AI carries real professional risk, Waters made ethics the foundation rather than an afterthought. Every output JILL produces is governed by DDEAS, the Discover Docket Ethical and Accountability Standards, which validates each citation against current law, scores the confidence of every output, and records a cryptographic, chained audit trail of every action. The result is AI legal work a lawyer can stand behind in front of a court. Discover Docket is in pre-launch, opening to California firms first in Q4 2026, with a waitlist open now. It is built in California.