Relativity Deposition Question Builder

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name: relativity-deposition-question-builder

description: Develop deposition question sets from Relativity-exported PDF productions using a user-provided legal theory. Use when tasks involve reviewing opponent-produced PDFs, extracting per-page document IDs from the bottom-right corner (if two numbers appear, use the smaller one), mapping document relevance to a legal theory, and drafting questions grouped by document ID with required rationale and supporting quotes.

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# Relativity Deposition Question Builder

Overview

Analyze one or more Relativity-exported PDF productions against a legal theory and generate deposition questions organized by document ID. Each question includes a reason for asking and a document quote that can be used if the witness denies.

Required Behavior

- `Reason why we ask this question`

- `Quote from the document to use in deposition in case the opponent party denies`

Workflow

1. Gather inputs.

- Confirm the user's legal theory.

- Confirm PDF source path(s).

- Optionally gather witness name/role and priority topics.

2. Extract per-page text and document IDs.

- Run:

```bash

python scripts/extract_relativity_pages.py \

--input <pdf-folder-or-file> \

--recurse \

--output <relativity_pages.json>

```

- Review pages where `selected_document_id` is null and flag for manual check.

3. Build a relevance map for the legal theory.

- For each page, classify relation to theory: `supports`, `undermines`, `neutral`.

- Focus question drafting on `supports` pages first, then `undermines` pages for impeachment.

4. Draft deposition questions grouped by document ID.

- Use short, concrete, single-issue questions.

- Start with authentication/foundation, then admission and contradiction questions.

- Use direct quotes from page text for denial follow-up.

5. Return output in required structure.

- Follow `references/deposition_output_template.md`.

- Keep document IDs in ascending numeric order.

Output Rules

- `Quote from the document to use in deposition in case the opponent party denies: [No direct quote located - manual verification required]`

Resources

Dependencies

Install once if missing:

python -m pip install --user pdfplumber