Every public defender knows the moment: a new felony lands on your desk with 400 pages of discovery, hours of body cam footage, and a trial date that is closer than it should be. Most legal AI tools help you with one slice of that problem. This session shows what happens when AI lives where the case lives.
ZLS.app is case management built for public defense, with
ZLS.ai built directly into the case file. Instead of exporting evidence into yet another tool, the AI works from everything your office already knows: the discovery, the docket, the deadlines, and every case your office has handled before.
In this live demo, we will take a single felony case from day-one assignment to trial and show how the case file builds itself into a trial notebook along the way, including:
- AI-aided file view that groups large volumes of discovery and summarizes each document, so a 400-page dump becomes an organized, readable case file.
- Advanced transcription that turns hours of body cam, interview, and jail call audio into time-synced, searchable text, and ties every voice to the actual people in your case management system and anyone in your office can discover prior videos where the same officer or witness appears.
- Witness extraction that reads police reports with OCR + AI and adds every witness and officer to the case file as actual people in the system, so no one is retyping names from a PDF.
- Agentic AI that creates case notes and court dates directly from the ZLS.ai assistant.
- Full indexing of office-wide discovery, built on a public-defense-specific implementation of OpenAI's latest models, so every page and every minute of footage your office has received is searchable in context.
- Office knowledge, a curated knowledge base of your office's motions and policies that ZLS.ai draws on, so the AI works like a member of your office's team instead of a generic chatbot.
- A trial notebook that automatically gathers every statement each of those witnesses made anywhere in your discovery, so cross prep starts with every statement already collected.
We will close with what adoption actually looks like, drawing on offices already live on
ZLS.ai, and the ethical guardrails that keep the attorney in charge of the case. Leave with a concrete picture of what "AI inside your case management system" means for your next client.
