From Pleadings Matrix to Structured Case Frameworks — Using AI to Accelerate Dispute Analysis

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David BlayneyPublished 20th May 2026

A valuable but tedious and often neglected part of complex litigation is turning pleadings into a usable analytical framework: identifying the issues, mapping competing positions, and building a structure the team can actually work from.

Recent advances in AI have changed what is possible.

In this discussion, I demonstrate how we can now use AI to generate structured issue frameworks directly from pleadings and RFIs - producing not just summaries, but an organised architecture of the dispute that teams can immediately begin working from.

Using the publicly available pleadings from the PCP v Barclays litigation as an example, the video shows how AI can help generate:

  • structured issue hierarchies;

  • competing party positions;

  • proposition chronologies;

  • linked analytical frameworks; and

  • working structures for evidence review and investigation.

The aim is not to replace legal analysis, but to remove a major source of friction in getting complex cases organised and trial-ready.

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