Managing Partner

How OraClaim helps former prosecutor Travis Meyer spend less time buried in files—and more time thinking, strategizing, and defending his clients.

Travis Meyer became a lawyer to be in the action.

Before building a career in insurance defense, Travis served as a Senior Assistant District Attorney in Georgia, where he developed his instincts as a courtroom advocate and strategist. He was ultimately recognized as Assistant District Attorney of the Year. Today, as a Partner at Waldon Adelman Castilla McNamara & Prout, he brings that same competitive mindset to defending insurers and their policyholders. (Waldon Adelman Castilla McNamara & Prout)

He likes being in court. He likes preparing witnesses, taking depositions, sizing up the other side, developing a strategy, and figuring out how to win.

What he doesn't enjoy is spending hours digging through a case file just to get to the work that actually requires a lawyer.

The problem: More cases, but not more hours

Waldon Adelman has built one of Georgia's leading insurance defense practices around rigorous preparation, strategic thinking, and trial results. (Waldon Adelman Castilla McNamara & Prout) As the firm has grown, however, its lawyers have faced a challenge familiar to successful defense firms everywhere: the volume of work keeps increasing, while experienced legal talent remains difficult to find.

For Travis, that meant being snowed under with cases while spending too much of his time on work that didn't make the best use of his experience—digging through documents, reconstructing timelines, getting up to speed on files, and making sure important details or deadlines weren't overlooked.

The irony was hard to miss. The more successful the practice became, the more administrative weight there was between Travis and the parts of practicing law he enjoyed most.

OraClaim changes where Travis spends his time

OraClaim gives Travis a different way to work.

Instead of starting with a stack of documents and working his way toward an understanding of the case, he can get to that understanding almost immediately. The important facts, documents, history, and issues are accessible when he needs them, giving him a command of the file without requiring hours of manual review first.

The tedious parts of litigation become faster and more consistent. The team can stay on top of files and deadlines, bring lawyers up to speed quickly, and maintain a consistently high level of work even as caseloads grow.

But for Travis, the biggest benefit isn't simply efficiency.

It's what that efficiency lets him do.

More lawyer. Less paperwork.

When a deposition is coming up, Travis can spend his time thinking about the witness and the questions he wants to ask—not hunting through the file for the facts he needs.

When a case is moving toward trial, he can focus on themes, strategy, witnesses, and how the evidence will play in front of a jury.

When a client calls, he can quickly understand where the case stands and give them an informed answer.

And when the other side makes a move, he can think about how to respond rather than first having to reconstruct the case.

OraClaim helps remove the friction between Travis and the work he is best at.

For a former prosecutor who still enjoys the competitive side of litigation, that matters. It means spending more of the day in the game of defending clients—making judgments, building strategy, preparing for depositions and trials, and advocating in the courtroom.

In other words, it lets Travis practice law more like the lawyer he set out to become.

Ready for the moments that matter

Insurance defense will always demand meticulous preparation. OraClaim doesn't replace that preparation—it changes how quickly a lawyer can get there.

Travis can have the substance of a case at his fingertips, handle tedious work more efficiently, and walk into the moments that matter—client conversations, depositions, mediations, and trials—better prepared.

The result is more than productivity.

OraClaim is helping Travis up his game while making the practice of law fun again.

He gets to spend less time managing the machinery of litigation and more time doing what a former prosecutor and lifelong litigator actually wants to do:

Know the case. Develop the strategy. Get in the arena. Defend the client.