Repeatable, realistic deposition practice — not one-and-done role play.
The flight simulator for litigators
Introducing
Traditional deposition training is expensive, infrequent, and rarely repeatable. DepoSim changes that.
Conduct live, realistic oral depositions on-demand—with AI acting as the witness, opposing counsel, and court reporter—then get structured, objective feedback within minutes so you can run the next rep better.
Empowering Associates, Informing Firms
Introducing
Benchmark360
AltaClaro's Benchmark360 is a groundbreaking tool designed to revolutionize how law firms assess and nurture their associates' skills. By providing personalized training, feedback and comprehensive insights, Benchmark360 helps associates take ownership of their professional development while offering firms valuable data to tailor their training and mentoring programs.
No actors. No off-site programs.
Just on-demand deliberate practice that builds better advocates. Leverage as standalone or as a supplement to your existing training programs.
Real-time, hands-on deposition reps
Unlimited repetition + adjustable difficulty
Run the scenario again and again while increasing or decreasing the difficulty of the witness and opposing counsel.
Detailed, rubric-based feedback
Aligned with authoritative practitioner guides and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Designed in collaboration with top firms.
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Real practice. Real feedback. Real results.
On-demand deposition training and preparation for attorneys at any experience level
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Trusted by major firms across the country.
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Building on the technical focus of its Fundamentals of Prompt Engineering for Lawyers course, AltaClaro’s supervisory course focuses on higher-level leadership and management training.
This first-of-its-kind training program was developed in collaboration with global law firm K&L Gates. The program is specifically designed to equip partners and managers in law firms and in-house legal departments with the skills and knowledge needed to effectively oversee the use of Generative AI (GenAI) by their teams–including leading-edge guidance for complying with the ABA’s recent formal opinion on the ethical use of GenAI.
Included in those rules are a Duty of Competence, which emphasizes the need for lawyers to stay abreast of technological advancements, and a Duty to Supervise, which outlines professional conduct standards expected in AI supervision. This program helps attorneys and firms fulfill their professional and ethical obligations.
The Problem
Depositions are high-stakes.
Practice is expensive and infrequent.
Traditional deposition training often relies on hiring actors for internal role-play or sending associates to costly off-site programs—usually a “one and done” experience, with limited repetition and infrequent objective feedback.
DepoSim closes the gap:
Continuous, repeatable deposition practice with data-driven feedback—available on-demand.
What is DepoSim?
DepoSim is a realistic deposition simulator created by AltaClaro and Verbit.
“AltaClaro, the global leader in simulation-based training for lawyers, partnered with Verbit.ai, the global leader in verbal intelligence, to develop DepoSim, an AI Deposition Simulator that mirrors the dynamics of a live deposition using text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and advanced LLM capabilities.
DepoSim uses orchestrated AI agents to convincingly play the roles of the witness, opposing counsel, and court reporter.
This highly-realistic, on-demand experience offers detailed, actionable feedback and can be repeated for continuous practice. Built on predefined case facts, witness backstories, and a detailed rubric, DepoSim provides an interactive, yet “guardrailed” learning environment. It reproduces and provides training feedback on the entire deposition process, including:
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Introductions and conclusions
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Witness questioning
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Exhibit and objection handling
How DepoSim works
DepoSim places attorneys in a live, simulated deposition, complete with AI agents acting as the witness, opposing counsel, and court reporter. Attorneys conduct the deposition in real time, handling objections, managing exhibits, and adapting their questioning strategy on the fly. Within minutes of completing the session, they receive detailed, rubric-based feedback.
DepoSim is the first tool of its kind, transforming legal skills development with a foundation in deliberate practice.
You practice like it’s real—because it behaves like it’s real.
DepoSim’s AI agents can be tuned across multiple dimensions to simulate different witness types and opposing counsel tactics.
How it works (3 steps)
Step 1:Pick a scenario
Train inside realistic litigation scenarios designed for pedagogical rigor.
Step 2:Take the deposition live
Depose the witness, manage objections, and work in real time with opposing counsel and a court reporter.
Step 3:Get feedback in minutes
Receive structured, actionable feedback based on a rigorous rubric—so you can target weaknesses and repeat with purpose.
What sets DepoSim apart
Realistic case scenario
Practice on a realistic case file with a complex fact pattern, complaint, interrogatories, and multiple exhibits.
High-fidelity experience
Interact with realistic AI agents acting as witness, opposing counsel, and court reporter for a realistic, experiential deposition environment.
Adjustable difficulty
Dial witness and opposing counsel behavior up or down—train from cooperative to hostile, calm to aggressive.
Empower Associates to Own Their Growth
Empowers associates with detailed, personalized feedback on core competencies and practical skills through fundamental assignments in key practice areas.
This targeted approach fosters:
- Clear Insight: Associates gain a strong understanding of their strengths and areas for growth.
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Focused Development: Associates can prioritize the skills and issues most critical for success.
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Greater Self-Awareness: Associates are empowered to take ownership of their professional development journey.
Rubric-based, objective feedback
Receive instant, objective feedback on questioning techniques, exhibit handling, objection management, clarity, and overall deposition strategy—based on industry standards, FRCP alignment, and AltaClaro's vetted experts.
Unlimited eeps
Run the simulation as many times as you want to focus on the specific parts of a deposition you’re working to improve. Use targeted repetition across different personalities and scenarios to refine questioning, pacing, exhibit flow, and objection handling.
Targeted firm mentoring opportunities
Leverage feedback reports for targeted mentoring and training sessions with insights into areas of strength and areas needing improvement.
Empowers associates with detailed, personalized feedback on core competencies and practical skills through fundamental assignments in key practice areas.
This targeted approach fosters:
- Clear Insight: Associates gain a strong understanding of their strengths and areas for growth.
- Focused Development: Associates can prioritize the skills and issues most critical for success.
- Greater Self-Awareness: Associates are empowered to take ownership of their professional development journey.
Empower Associates to Own Their Growth
Empower Associates to Own Their Growth
Empowers associates with detailed, personalized feedback on core competencies and practical skills through fundamental assignments in key practice areas.
This targeted approach fosters:
- Clear Insight: Associates gain a strong understanding of their strengths and areas for growth.
- Focused Development: Associates can prioritize the skills and issues most critical for success.
- Greater Self-Awareness: Associates are empowered to take ownership of their professional development journey.
Who is DepoSim for?
DepoSim is built for litigation teams, including attorneys at every level. This includes junior associates preparing for their first deposition, as well as senior attorneys looking to warm up before a high-stakes examination or refine specific techniques.
Beginner
- Reps/feedback to help better handle depo prep activities with partners.
- Reps/feedback before first/early depositions (can bring feedback to mentors).
- Use in conjunction with deposition outline training, or before/after offsite or internal live training programs to reinforce learning.
- Spaced repetition with different personalities.
Intermediate
- Continued practice reps/feedback in a safe environment.
- Assess and target areas for improvement or specific parts of deposition.
- Practice advanced techniques or scenarios.
- Spaced repetition with different personalities.
Experienced
- Warm up or polish before actual deposition (especially if it’s been a while).
- Identify “blind spots” and practice mitigating them.
- Practice an unfamiliar scenario or witness type.
Additional deposition simulation types coming soon!
Employment
IP Litigation
Financial/Securities
Product Liability/Mass Tort
Expert Witness
DepoSim works on your terms.
You can use DepoSim to supplement or even replace traditional training programs. However you choose to use it, attorneys get the reps they need to be ready when it counts.
Why attorneys from top firms love DepoSim:
I can really see myself using this for the long-term… I'm a confirmed AI hater, so this is not faint praise.
This is better feedback than I've received from attorneys. Both more comprehensive and more specific.
I really like the ability to practice going off-book with not a real human, not a real opposing counsel who's gonna rush you, not wasting your client's money.
Frighteningly realistic. Amazing. The demeanor of the witness matched the 'professional' setting.
This is absolutely a credible way of getting attorneys some reps before they actually go in the room.
Frequently Asked Questions
DepoSim uses a controlled, standardized AI framework designed for consistency by leveraging structured case files, defined witness personas and backstories, and a rigorous training rubric, delivering reliable, repeatable simulations every time. Unlike general-purpose AI or one-off role-plays, DepoSim provides the same level of realism and control across unlimited practice sessions, with objective, data-driven feedback attorneys can act on immediately.
ChatGPT is a general-purpose conversational AI. It doesn't simulate the mechanics of a real deposition, doesn't maintain consistent witness behavior tied to case facts, and can't provide structured feedback against a legal training rubric. DepoSim is purpose-built for deposition training: it uses specialized and grounded AI agents (witness, opposing counsel, court reporter) grounded in realistic case files and exhibits, and delivers objective feedback on specific skills like questioning strategy, objection handling, exhibit management, and composure under pressure.
Yes. Witness and opposing counsel behavior can be fine-tuned along multiple dimensions. Firms can "dial the difficulty" up or down, simulating everything from a cooperative witness to a hostile deponent or aggressive opposing counsel.
The DepoSim architecture is built on a secure, private infrastructure that uses Verbit’s servers for transcription and calls commercial LLMs exclusively via secure APIs, preventing any customer-specific data from leaking into public training sets. Associate performance data is also not used for model training.
DepoSim provides targeted visibility into associate performance. Firms will be able to choose their level of access to analytics on an associate’s strengths and weaknesses, allowing for data-driven mentoring while maintaining internal confidentiality.
The current roadmap includes specialized modules for Commercial Litigation, Employment Law, Intellectual Property (Patent), and Construction/Real Estate. The engine is extensible and designed to support a number of different scenarios, cases, and witnesses.
Unlike general-purpose AI, DepoSim’s feedback is structured by AltaClaro’s proprietary pedagogy. The system evaluates performance against a rigorous training rubric that tracks a number of objective metrics including exhibit handling techniques, use of exhibits, follow-up questions, question types (open vs. closed), and other substantive and stylistic factors.
AltaClaro is an experiential training platform for lawyers, following a learn-by-doing and feedback model.
AltaClaro works with Law Firms and Legal Departments to:
Increase Quality Work Product
Reduce Cost & Effort of Training
Improve Associate Efficiency & Utilization
Increase Retention
Enhance Profitability
PRAISE FOR OUR COURSES
One of my favorite parts was definitely the live session. I think it's really helpful to have gone with a group of other people and see their mistakes and what they did because there are so many ways to do it. And there's a different order to go about doing different things that I would have not thought of. And also just seeing where everyone made similar mistakes as I did. It was reassuring.
- Ali Cervantes Solis, Member of Orrick's Summer Associate Class
“Culturally, the way to implement a new technology is through education and training, and AltaClaro offers the industry-leading solutions and partnership we need to make this happen.They listen closely and iterate proactively to deliver training programs that serve the needs of both the learner and the firm. Their role could not be more important in this new era of GenAI solutions that are literally popping up weekly.”
-Brendan McDonnell, K&L Gates Partner, Member of K&L Gates Innovation Team
“One of my favorite parts in the course was definitely the live session. I think it’s really helpful to have gone with a group of other people and see their mistakes and what they did, because there’s so many ways to do [this]. And there’s a different order to go about doing different things that I would have not thought of. And also just seeing where everyone made similar mistakes as I did. It was reassuring.”
—Cervantes Solis, Orrick Associate
"96% of Orrick attorneys who participated in training with AltaClaro reported that it made their work better."
–Wendy Butler Curtis, Chief Innovation Officer
“To stay competitive while ensuring ethically and legally sound practices, firms must know how to oversee GenAI from the top down. AltaClaro’s GenAI Supervisory training is uniquely timed to provide guidance on these new guidelines and to help partners navigate this constantly changing AI landscape.”
–Carolyn Austin, K&L Gates Director of Practice Innovation.
One of my favorite parts was definitely the live session. I think it's really helpful to have gone with a group of other people and see their mistakes and what they did because there are so many ways to do it. And there's a different order to go about doing different things that I would have not thought of. And also just seeing where everyone made similar mistakes as I did. It was reassuring.
- Ali Cervantes Solis, Member of Orrick's Summer Associate Class
One of my favorite parts was definitely the live session. I think it's really helpful to have gone with a group of other people and see their mistakes and what they did because there are so many ways to do it. And there's a different order to go about doing different things that I would have not thought of. And also just seeing where everyone made similar mistakes as I did. It was reassuring.
- Ali Cervantes Solis, Member of Orrick's Summer Associate Class