Situation

Our client was working on the early stages of a complex dispute. As a part of the initial investigation the legal team wanted to conduct a review of a critical document sets and build a chronology of key events. There were three main issues, and it was important that a timeline could be created for each as well as a master chronology of events. This document would be used to brief experts and counsel. Ordinarily this legal team had prepared the chronologies using Microsoft office with reference to documents in the review workspace.

Solution

Our team worked with our client’s legal team to set up our custom chronology solution in the review workspace. This would allow the legal team to build events on the timeline and link critical documents to it, capturing relevant and pertinent information along the way. We were able to set up the same structure for each of the three event streams and combine this into a master chronology. At any point in time the chronology could be exported from the review platform neatly and legibly, displaying all of the information captured with hyperlinks to the relevant documents referenced.

Impact

Our custom chronology solution and workflow allowed our client to:

• Review documents and build a chronology in one platform

• Easily and accurately link documents to critical events in the timeline

• Reduce the time taken to prepare the chronology through the integration and the semi-automate output and hyperlinking process

• Share the chronology with stakeholder within the legal team and external to it