Hearing and conference notes
Turn a dictation or authorised recording into a structured note covering attendance, submissions, outcome, directions, deadlines, and next actions.
AI software for litigation teams.
Capture what happened, structure what the documents say, and draft from the matter record. Ardela brings legal dictation, cited document review, and approval-gated AI into one litigation workspace.
The case file
keeps expanding.
Litigation work is rarely short of information. The expensive gap is turning calls, hearings, statements, correspondence, and bundles into a record the team can actually use.
Important detail is trapped in audio and handwritten notes.
Fee-earners reconstruct hearings, conferences, and instructions before they can advise or draft.
Chronologies are rebuilt every time the document set changes.
Dates, parties, amounts, and events are copied into spreadsheets that leave the source trail behind.
Generic AI starts outside the matter and its controls.
Useful litigation work needs provenance, permissions, and a visible approval step alongside the draft.
From attendance to working case record
Use the source that already exists—speech, documents, or both—then keep the supervising fee-earner in control of the output.
Capture the event
Dictate after a hearing, record an authorised conference, or upload existing audio. Correct names and figures in the transcript first.
Structure the papers
Add the relevant documents to a Pillar and extract the dates, actors, issues, and values the team needs, with citations to source.
Draft and approve
Generate the attendance note or working draft on the firm’s template. Clara proposes changes; an authorised person accepts them.
Litigation workflows Ardela is built around
A litigation platform earns its place by removing reconstruction work while keeping legal judgment with the dispute team.
Cited litigation chronologies
Extract dates and events across a document set into a working Table. Open the supporting source when a fact needs to be checked.
Case summaries and correspondence
Bring the transcript and matter material together for first drafts, summaries, and client correspondence that remain subject to fee-earner review.
Witness statements and pre-action drafts
Prepare a witness-statement structure, letter before claim, response, or instructions to counsel from checked matter material for professional review and filing.
One litigation workspace,
three kinds of work.
Capture
Create a dependable record while the detail is still fresh.
Legal dictation 
Multi-speaker meetings 
Audio uploads 
Editable transcripts Structure and produce
Make the matter easier to scan, check, and progress.
Cited extraction Tables 
Matter search 
PDF and DOCX drafts 
Approval-gated changes Useful to the dispute team. Honest about the boundary.
Ardela supports litigation preparation and matter work, while the solicitor owns prospects, advice, procedure, and every filing decision.
Citations before confidence
Pillars keeps extracted answers connected to their source documents so the team can verify the underlying passage instead of trusting an unsupported summary.
Matter-scoped access
Roles, permission keys, and sharing grants limit who can see sensitive work. Database row-level security enforces the workspace boundary underneath.
Human judgment stays final
Generated documents are drafts. Clara presents rewrites and redlines for approval; the supervising fee-earner remains responsible for the file.
Litigation questions,
answered.
What litigation work can Ardela help with?
Ardela is designed for the information-heavy work around a dispute: legal dictation, hearing and conference transcripts, attendance notes, document extraction, cited chronologies, matter search, drafting, and controlled document review. The solicitor remains responsible for strategy, advice, procedure, and filing.
Can Ardela create a litigation chronology from documents?
Yes. A team can upload relevant documents to Pillars, define the dates and events it needs, and extract them into a Table with citations back to source. The result is a review aid, so the fee-earner should check material entries against the cited document.
Does Ardela replace litigation case management software?
Ardela includes clients, matters, tasks, deadlines, documents, and time entries. Its distinctive role is capture, drafting, review, and structured matter knowledge, whether used as a focused workspace or alongside an existing practice-management system.
Can we use our own litigation templates?
Yes on plans that include custom templates. Drafts can use the firm’s document structure and letterhead, then export to PDF or DOCX. Template availability and rollout should be confirmed against the plan you are considering.
Does Ardela give litigation advice or predict outcomes?
Ardela helps the legal team organise source material and produce reviewable drafts. A qualified solicitor provides legal advice and assesses the likely result of a dispute.
How is confidential litigation material protected?
Recordings and documents are hosted in the UK by default, encrypted in transit and at rest, and protected by workspace permissions. Some named sub-processors for transcription and generation operate outside the UK; firms can assess their locations and safeguards during procurement.
Bring one live matter.
See the working record.
Use a representative bundle or recording to build a cited chronology or draft, then have the supervising fee-earner test every material proposition.