Chronology and Fact Reconstruction

Build a source-cited timeline from mixed matter files and flag the evidentiary gaps a lawyer needs to close.

What It Does

The agent reads the matter files, assembles the events into a timeline, and cites each fact to its document and page while flagging where the record is thin. A lawyer reviews and owns the brief.Without it: Reconstructing what happened across contracts, emails, notes, scanned notices, and filings is slow, and a single missed date can shift the whole story.

  • Undated documents are placed by inference and marked as placed, not dated
  • Conflicting dates across two sources stay side by side, neither one resolved
  • Low-confidence text from scans and handwriting is flagged, not silently transcribed
  • A later file drop merges into the existing chronology instead of starting a second one

Illustrative example

A client sends 412 pages for matter 2024-LT-118 as a mix of PDF scans, email exports, and photographed handwritten notes. The agent builds the timeline, keeps the termination notice twice because the letterhead reads 3 June and the courier receipt reads 6 June, and marks a four-month stretch with no documents at all. The associate opens a chronology with the conflict and the gap already on its face, and decides what to request from the client.

Reads

Document intake

Client file drops

OCR

Scan and handwriting text

Matter management

Matter number, parties

Case chronology

The existing timeline

Runs

Chronology and fact reconstruction

Suggest

Starts when

Matter files land from the client in mixed formats

How far it goes

it proposes, and a person approves before anything commits

Produces

Timeline

Assembled, every fact cited

Evidentiary gaps

Marked on the timeline

Fact brief

Drafted for review

Chronology and fact reconstruction. Reads Document intake, Client file drops; OCR, Scan and handwriting text; Matter management, Matter number, parties; Case chronology, The existing timeline. Suggest autonomy: it proposes, and a person approves before anything commits. Produces Timeline Assembled, every fact cited; Evidentiary gaps Marked on the timeline; Fact brief Drafted for review.

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