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Background on Discover Docket for journalists, analysts, and industry observers.
Discover Docket is a pre-launch litigation technology platform combining case management, AI-assisted drafting, deposition analysis, and procedural compliance tools into a single platform built specifically for civil litigation. The platform launches publicly in late 2026 with California and Federal procedural support as the day-one tier and all 52 U.S. jurisdictions supported by end of year one.
The platform's distinguishing technology is JILL (Judicial Insights & Legal Logic), the platform's built-in AI, operating under the DDEAS (Discover Docket Ethical and Accountability Standards) framework. DDEAS imposes structural source validation, confidence scoring, cryptographic audit logging, and tamper-evident chain-of-custody requirements on every AI output the platform produces — addressing the failure modes that have produced AI-related professional discipline cases since Mata v. Avianca (2023).
The company was founded by Chris Waters, a California civil litigator with 25 years of practice experience.
Founder bio
Chris Waters has been in the legal industry for twenty five years. He is the founder of Discover Docket and writes regularly about legal AI, professional responsibility, and modern litigation practice. His writing on these topics is available in The Docket.
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Recent writing
The most recent essays from Chris Waters in The Docket.
- AI SANCTIONSJun 9, 20269 min read
Mata v. Avianca: What every lawyer needs to know about AI hallucinations
- AI SANCTIONSJun 9, 20268 min read
Park v. Kim and the Second Circuit's AI warning shot
- AI SANCTIONSJun 9, 202610 min read
ABA Formal Opinion 512: The lawyer's new duties in the AI era
- AI SANCTIONSJun 9, 202612 min read
State bar AI guidance: a 50-state survey
- INDUSTRY ANALYSISJun 9, 20269 min read
Why bolt-on AI doesn't solve hallucinations
- INDUSTRY ANALYSISJun 9, 202610 min read
The true cost of the legal tech stack
- INDUSTRY ANALYSISJun 9, 20268 min read
The practice management AI failure
- PERSPECTIVEJun 9, 20268 min read
How DDEAS prevents the Mata v. Avianca scenario
- PERSPECTIVEJun 9, 20268 min read
Built by a litigator, for the platform litigators actually need
- PERSPECTIVEJun 9, 20268 min read
JILL vs. the generic chatbot: what changes when AI is built for litigation
- PERSPECTIVEJun 9, 20269 min read
The case for ethical AI in litigation
- FOUNDER NOTESJun 9, 20269 min read
Modern solo practice — 25 years in
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