Trey Cox Describes How AI Is Reshaping Litigation Strategy
Firm News | April 15, 2026
The AmLaw Litigation Daily
In an in-depth interview with The AmLaw Litigation Daily [PDF] (“Speed by Itself Is Not Enough: How Gibson Dunn’s Trey Cox Thinks AI Is Reshaping Litigation Strategy,” April 14, 2026), partner Trey Cox asserts that the main value of AI is not speed but rather what he refers to as “strategic compression”—the ability to get “to the point of decision-making faster.”
Trey explains that “In complex litigation, trial teams can spend days and weeks and months gathering documents, organizing facts, mapping the factual terrain, the legal standards and pressure-testing things.” With AI, he says, “we can compress those weeks and months into hours and days.”
Trey adds that this compression isn’t about locking into a theory earlier—it’s about testing it harder, which is what the best trial teams do. “You should use AI … to test the assumptions, to challenge the facts,” he said. “That’s the magic of what AI allows you to do.”
Trey is Co-Chair of the firm’s global Litigation Practice Group and Co-Partner in Charge of the Dallas office.