Plaintiff firm conquers deposition designations effectively

Quick summary

Depositions at scale for complex opioid litigation

Burns Charest LLP is a nationally recognized plaintiff litigation firm handling complex, high-stakes matters across antitrust, intellectual property, and mass tort. The firm regularly manages cases involving hundreds of depositions and thousands of exhibits.

In the middle of complex opioid litigation involving approximately 400 deposition transcripts, Burns Charest needed a platform that could handle the designation workflow at scale. Deposition designations aren't a one-pass process — each transcript generates rounds of designations, counter-designations, and objections, and every round requires precise tracking and efficient editing.

Nextpoint migrated all 400+ transcripts and videos into a single centralized platform, with a dedicated services team prioritizing the highest-impact materials so the litigation team could begin working immediately. Every round of the designation process — initial designations, counter-designations, objections, and edits — lived in one place, trackable and easy to update without toggling between systems.

Burns Charest delivered designation reports on time and with confidence. Attorneys spent less time on the mechanics of tracking and editing designations and more time on the strategic decisions those designations support.

With 400 transcripts, the designation process can bury you if you don’t have the right tool. Nextpoint is intuitive and allowed the team to easily edit designations, counters, and objections all in one place."^{Cristina Delise, Of Counsel} _{Burns Charest LLP}

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The challenge

Managing 400 depositions without a system

Burns Charest LLP is a nationally recognized plaintiff litigation firm handling complex, high-stakes cases across antitrust, intellectual property, and mass tort. The firm regularly manages matters involving hundreds of depositions and thousands of exhibits.

In the middle of complex opioid litigation involving approximately 400 deposition transcripts, Burns Charest needed a platform that could handle the designation workflow at scale. Deposition designations in large-scale litigation are not a one-pass process. Each transcript generates rounds of designations, counter-designations, and objections exchanged between the parties, and every round requires precise tracking and efficient editing. At this volume, the designation workflow itself becomes a major operational demand.

The solution

One platform for every round of designations

Cristina Delise, Of Counsel at Burns Charest, had used Nextpoint previously during major EpiPen antitrust litigation, where it proved essential for managing deposition designations and coordinating exchanges with opposing counsel. When the opioid matter demanded the same level of precision at an even larger scale, she brought Nextpoint in.

Nextpoint migrated approximately 400 transcripts and videos into a single centralized platform, with a dedicated services team prioritizing the highest-impact materials so the litigation team could begin working immediately. The platform housed every round of the designation process in one place: Initial designations, counter-designations, objections, and edits were all visible, trackable, and easy to update without toggling between systems or reconciling competing versions. The result was a designation workflow that scaled with the case instead of slowing it down.

The results

Faster workflow, more time for strategy

Burns Charest delivered deposition designation reports to opposing parties on time and with confidence. The back-and-forth inherent in the designation process, which in a case of this size can consume significant attorney time, became manageable. Attorneys spent less time on the mechanics of tracking and editing designations and more time on the strategic decisions those designations support.

Why it matters

When the volume grows, the right tool makes all the difference

Deposition designations are one of the most labor-intensive components of complex litigation, and the process only compounds as the number of transcripts grows. Nextpoint gave Burns Charest a platform that kept the entire designation workflow in one place, from initial pass to final report, making the back and forth between parties efficient instead of exhausting. For Cristina Delise, it was a tool she trusted enough to bring from one major engagement to the next.

Ready to take control of your own designation process?

If tracking initial designations, counter-designations, objections, and edits across dozens (or hundreds) of transcripts is eating into your team's strategic time, there's a better way. See how Nextpoint keeps every round of the designation workflow in one centralized, easy-to-update platform — so your attorneys can focus on argument, not administration.