AI Legal Document Summaries
Cecilia doc summaries
Summarize complex, important, and foreign-language legal documents in one click with Cecilia AI.
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Summarize contracts, evidence, and other legal documents at the click of a button
Get an on-demand digest of key documents conveniently alongside the original text. Cecilia Doc Summaries empowers your team to speed time to evidence by leveraging short recaps of important files.
During review, jump straight to a document’s key points
After receiving a production, digest complex documents to provide takeaways faster
During a deposition or hearing, get a quick summary of a surprise document
Understand complex legal documents with Cecilia AI
Complex documents can slow down review and lead to key pieces of information being missed. Cecilia Doc Summaries helps you fast-track your understanding of the case with secure generative AI document summaries.
Summarize key documents before sharing hot doc binders with your team, partners, or clients
Quickly identify names, dates, decisions, or policy violations to determine if an issue warrants deeper investigation
Improve review quality by checking tags on key documents against their summaries to make sure nothing was missed


Generate summaries of legal documents written in other languages
Cecilia Doc Summaries provides succinct, plain-English recaps of foreign language documents for law firms and corporate legal teams. This allows you to quickly understand the facts within these documents without needing to translate them first.
Derive insights from foreign language documents without needing to speak the language or translate the document
Determine whether a foreign-language document is relevant enough to be fully translated or can simply be marked non-responsive
Seamlessly get a digest of foreign language documents, conveniently alongside the original document text
Use Cecilia AI to dive deeper into legal documents
Go beyond summaries and use the full suite of Cecilia AI tools to accelerate your entire litigation and investigation workflow. DISCO's generative AI features help you get to the facts faster and with less manual work.
Generate on-demand digests of complex or foreign-language documents with a single click in the document viewer using Cecilia Doc Summaries
Interrogate your entire evidence database by asking natural language questions and receiving direct, cited answers in seconds with Cecilia Q&A
Automate first-pass review with Cecilia Auto Review, which tags documents based on plain-English descriptions and provides narrative justifications for each decision
Automatically create a comprehensive timeline of key facts, with citations, by simply uploading a complaint or other case document with Cecilia Auto Timelines

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Frequently asked questions
Is Cecilia doc summaries free to use?
- DISCO Ediscovery customers who have enabled Cecilia Q&A have free, unlimited use of Cecilia Doc Summaries.
- For DISCO Ediscovery customers who have not enabled Cecilia Q&A, DISCO offers clients 40 free uses of Cecilia doc summaries and 10 free uses of Cecilia Single-Doc Q&A per database, per user, per day.
How do I use Cecilia to generate AI document summaries?
You can generate a document summary for any document on-demand, directly within the DISCO Ediscovery document viewer.
- While viewing a document, simply open the Cecilia AI panel.
- Click the button to generate a summary.
- The summary will appear in the panel, conveniently alongside the original document text.
What types of legal documents can Cecilia summarize?
Cecilia can provide succinct, plain-English AI document summaries for a wide variety of documents, but it is particularly helpful for summarizing documents that are complex, such as contracts and reports.
Can Cecilia summarize legal documents in other languages?
Yes. Cecilia Doc Summaries can generate plain-English recaps of foreign language documents, allowing you to derive insights without needing to speak the language or translate the document.
Can I use Cecilia to generate deposition summaries?
Yes, legal professionals can use the Cecilia Deposition Summaries feature in DISCO Case Builder. Simply upload a deposition transcript to get a digest of key points, organized chronologically or by topic, with links and citations to the transcript.
Can I use Cecilia to analyze individual legal documents?
Yes, legal teams can use Cecilia Single-Doc Q&A to interrogate an individual document. You can ask it to simplify complex concepts, identify specific contract provisions, generate deposition questions, or QC tagging decisions.
Can I use Cecilia to analyze sets of multiple legal documents?
Yes, you can use Cecilia Q&A to ask factual questions across your entire database or a specific subset of documents. It provides direct answers with citations to all supporting documents.
Will Cecilia use my documents for LLM training?
No. DISCO never trains on or retains your client's data. The LLMs used in Cecilia AI are not permitted to train on customer data and usage, and they are not permitted to retain customer data after being queried and returning a response.
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