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Disputes and litigation
Build the chronology, keep the evidence in order and present the case.
Building the chronology
- Add the review table's dates to the chronologyDated rows of an Insights table turned into timeline events, columns mapped to event fields.
- Check and correct the chronology in a tableA checked chronology, corrected directly in the cells, with stray events removed.
- Start the chronology for a new disputeA named timeline in the dispute's matter, set to the date format the team works in.
- Change many events at onceA group of events given the same tag, person, numbering or font in one step.
- Lay out the procedural timetable from a templateThe firm's standard procedural steps on the timeline, dated from the day you choose.
- Add the key events by handEvents with the right date precision, description, internal note, people, tags and milestones.
- Build the chronology from the case documentsEvents proposed by JuristIQ from each document, checked against the highlighted source and linked back to it.
- Turn the email correspondence into eventsEach message of each thread as its own dated event, attachments filed with it, duplicates resolved.
- Handle documents the import could not readEvery imported document either has its events or a deliberate decision: scanned and retried, handled by hand or re-uploaded.
- Import an existing chronology from Word or ExcelEvery row of an existing chronology table as an event, with dates read the right way round.
- Pull the events out of one key documentA key document's events added to the case timeline, or a new timeline built from them.
Documents and evidence
- Link each event to its evidenceEvery event traceable to its source document, with a list showing where each document is used.
- Review the documents disclosed by the other sideEvery disclosed document categorised against the issues in one table, with the relevant ones sent to the case timeline.
- Make scanned documents searchableA scanned letter or exhibit turned into a PDF whose text can be searched, selected and read by the AI.
- Split a scanned bundle into separate documentsOne long scanned PDF cut into separate documents, each one its own event or row.
- Mark up a document for the teamKey passages highlighted and annotated, visible to the team in Juristic.
Analysing the case
- Choose the right view of the chronologyThe timeline in the linear, relative or table view that suits the task, with display settings set.
- Tag events by issueColour-coded tags on the events and a legend a reader can follow, with working tags kept out of exports.
- Track who was involved in each eventA list of the people in the case, each linked to their events, ready to filter for a witness statement.
- Show each party's side in swimlanesA relative timeline with one named, coloured lane per party and every event in its lane.
- Save the events for each issue as a storyNamed stories, saved filters the whole team can switch between, with the events themselves unchanged.
- See the timing of the disputeA relative timeline at the right scale, with quiet periods collapsed and same-day events in the right order.
- Find an event in a long chronologyThe event you need found and shown, wherever the match was: title, note, tag, person or document.
Working as a team
- Flag open questions in the chronologyGaps and doubts raised where the facts are, with the right person notified and nothing of it in the export.
- Make a version of the chronology for another readerA separate copy to cut down for the client or an expert, with the master untouched, and old timelines archived.
Case presentation
- Present the case chronologyTurn the timeline into a PDF that a client, counsel or the court can follow, on paper or on screen.
- Make a one-page overview of the disputeThe whole dispute on one page, lanes and colours included, to show on screen at a hearing or a mediation.
- Put the chronology into a slide deckA PowerPoint file with an overview of the events, and a slide per event if you want one.
- Hand over the chronology as a tableA Word table or Excel sheet of the events for a schedule of facts, counsel's notes or the client's check.
- Clip part of the chronology for a memoAn image, PDF or slide of one episode of the facts, with a legend of the tags inside it.
- Insert the chronology into a Word documentThe case timeline inserted as a table into the brief, letter or memo you are writing in Word.
- Draft a pleading from the chronologyA Word first draft of a demand letter, statement of claim or defence, written from the timeline's events and documents.
- Polish the chronology before it goes outConsistent colours, fonts and sizes, readable event cards and formatted text before the chronology is exported or shown.