Company: Opus 2; San Francisco, CA
Nomination Submitted by: Firesign | Enlightened Legal Marketing
Company Description: For more than 15 years, Opus 2 has developed and delivered award-winning technology solutions trusted by the world’s most successful law firms and consequential legal proceedings. Opus 2 transforms how lawyers work on matters while eliminating inefficiencies—connecting litigation teams with the collaboration tools they need to work smarter, more effectively.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Technology Solutions
Nomination Sub Category: Legal Solution
 Nomination Title: Opus 2's Opus 2 Cases
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- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: If this is a brand-new product, state the date on which it was released. If this is a new version of an existing product, state the date on which the update was released:
This is a new version of an existing solution, Opus 2 Cases, a cloud-based legal case management platform. In Autumn of 2024, AI was added to the platform to accelerate workflows throughout the litigation lifecycle. Additional enhancements have subsequently been released and will continue to be developed, including an upcoming release in March that will deliver significant value to case strategy.
Opus 2 Cases AI implementation timeline:
Spring 2024 – Launched AI Labs to clients for feedback and validation
Summer 2024 – Delivered a proof of concept and conducting testing
Autumn 2024 – AI released, including document analysis, summarization, and query
Winter 2024 – Launched AI document drafting with Word integration
Spring 2025 – AI Workbench for case-wide, context-rich analysis
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Describe the features, functions, and benefits of the nominated product or service (up to 350 words):
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Opus 2 Cases is an AI-enabled case management and strategy solution that gives law firms a competitive advantage as they prepare high-stakes cases for trial. The secure, cloud-based platform centralizes key documents, aligns case teams, and streamlines litigation workflows, uncovering crucial connections and insights that enable lawyers to develop winning case strategies. Features and functionality include:
Case assessment and document analysis
Opus 2 Cases makes it easy to securely manage, annotate, and work with essential case documents and content in one secure, searchable space. Users can further accelerate case analysis using AI to summarize documents, surface key facts, make data connections, and more.
Timeline and chronology creation
Opus 2 offers dynamic chronologies and timelines that enable users to identify events, adding them to a visual chronology or timeline. Each entry is linked to the source material and tagged with issues, entities, and unique metadata which can be filtered to create custom timelines.
Character and entity tracking
Opus 2 Cases ensures litigators understand the characters, organizations, and relationships in a case by creating profiles with key information and links to underlying evidence for additional context. This enhances deposition preparation and empowers litigation teams to create virtual binders of relevant documents to each character.
Transcript management
In the platform, users can make annotations, link to related documents, create designations, develop work product, and edit synced video clips, accelerating transcript management. Embedded AI further enhances this by enabling users to create deposition summaries in seconds. Opus 2’s AI can also analyze a transcript for inconsistencies, sentiment, and more.
Information tracking and visualization
Customizable, flexible and intuitive, advanced worksheets track, tag, filter, search, link, and visualize any type of case information to give users quick access to everything they need including procedural timetables, task management, deposition tracking, regulatory compliance, and more.
Opus 2 Cases delivers meaningful benefits to firms by:
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Outline the market performance, critical reception, and customer satisfaction with the product or service to date. State monetary or unit sales figures to date, if possible, and how they compare to expectations or past performance. Provide links to laudatory product or service reviews. Include some customer testimonials, if applicable (up to 350 words):
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Opus 2 Cases experienced record growth in 2024, with Global 200 firms comprising 30% of new clients. The company also achieved a net retention rate of 120%, with leading firms BakerHostetler, Norton Rose Fulbright, Troutman Pepper Locke eMerge, and Vorys expanding adoption.
Secure, centralized case management and strategy
Opus 2 Cases enables firms to consolidate their tech stack, eliminating point solutions, and creating a single source of truth.
Bartlit Beck LLP said, “My workload is dramatically reduced because I am not going to ten pieces of software, I am going to one. That has really made a big change.”
An Am Law 100 firm said, "Opus 2 just creates much more efficiency and stops re-creating the wheel over and over again because we have one centralized case management system for all these different components."
AI-enabled workflows
Integrated into Opus 2 Cases, AI augments existing workflows, allowing lawyers to find facts faster, reduce administrative labor, and uncover useful insights.
A lawyer recently illustrated the value of AI comparing Opus 2’s automated transcript review to their manual process. They first reviewed a 75-page transcript manually, taking four hours. Then, they used Opus 2’s AI which finished in seconds, the lawyer validated the output and confirmed alignment through manual review.
Launched six months ago, more than 20 firms – including Global 200 firms – have invested in Opus 2’s AI. Dozens of additional firms are testing, running pilot programs, and taking final steps to adopt Opus 2’s AI.
Frequent, meaningful enhancements
Clients switch to Opus 2 because their legacy solutions have stagnated. Opus 2 Cases delivers frequent enhancements that maximize client value.
Am Law 200 firm said, “It is robust. The company listens, addresses challenges quickly, implements helpful new features, and offers excellent support. We have a very good relationship with Opus 2 ... Opus 2 is about as modern as you can get.”
Am Law 50 firm said, “People love Opus 2 and what it can do ... Opus 2's employees are incredibly good and want to help us solve problems. It is one of the best companies we work with."
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