Arbitration
Discovery Management
Vilulia Arbitrate includes discovery management — document production requests, interrogatories, and admissions — with tracking, response handling, objection workflow, and AI tools for objection analysis and discovery planning. Discovery requires the Professional plan or above.
What you'll learn
- How to create discovery requests
- How parties respond to discovery requests and raise objections
- How to use AI to analyze discovery objections
- How AI suggests the overall discovery scope for a case
- How AI reviews a produced discovery document
Creating a discovery request
Tenant admins, arbitrators, and case managers can create discovery items on a case. Three request types are supported:
- document_request — request for production of documents
- interrogatory — written questions requiring written answers
- admission — request to admit or deny statements of fact
Each request captures the item type, an optional item number, the requesting party (claimant or respondent), and the request text. Requests are associated with the arbitration case record.
Responding to discovery
Parties respond to each discovery item through the respond endpoint. A response either provides a text answer (and optionally attaches produced document S3 keys) or raises a formal objection. Once a response or objection is recorded, the item status is locked — it cannot be overwritten.
Objection fields:
- objection_text — the stated objection
- objection_basis — one of: relevance, privilege, burden, proprietary
AI discovery suggestions
The Suggest Discovery Scope AI tool (Professional and above) reviews the case and recommends a targeted discovery plan — which documents to request, which witnesses to depose, and any scope limitations appropriate to the type and scale of the dispute. This tool runs at the case level and does not require additional input. It returns a starting-point plan for arbitrator review.
AI objection analysis
When a party objects to a discovery request, the Analyze Discovery Objection AI tool reviews that specific item and recommends how the arbitrator should rule, with supporting rationale. The tool accepts the discovery item ID and an optional language parameter.
AI discovery document review
The Review Discovery Document AI tool analyzes a produced document for relevance, privilege, and responsiveness to the outstanding discovery requests. Inputs include the document text (required, up to 100,000 characters), optional document name, requesting party, and the text of the relevant discovery requests. The tool returns an analysis for arbitrator review — it does not make binding rulings.
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