Know the deal history better than the other side — Legalnaut A Markdown version of this page is available at https://legalnaut.com/for/commercial-litigation.md for AI and LLM tools. COMMERCIAL LITIGATION Know the deal history better than the other side ================================================ A commercial dispute is usually an argument about what was agreed and when. The answer is in the correspondence, spread across years of email between people who have since left both companies. Questions this practice actually asks ------------------------------------- “How do I build a chronology from a thousand emails?” Events come out of every e-mail with their dates and land on one timeline, each entry with the message and the page it came from. A pleading that describes twelve events adds twelve entries. “Which document contradicts the other side's witness statement?” Every claim in the statement is compared with the rest of the file. A conflicting pair shows both quotations with document and page, and stays a suggestion until a lawyer confirms it. “When did they first know about the defect?” The timeline, filtered to one person, shows the first document in which they mention the defect, with the sentence highlighted. “What did we actually agree, and in which message?” Ask the file in plain language. The answer quotes the message it was built from, with the page, and the citation check under the answer says the quotation is really there. The chronology goes stale ------------------------- Disclosure arrives in tranches. A chronology built in March is wrong by May, and rebuilding it by hand is a week nobody has. The knowledge date is buried ---------------------------- When a party first knew something is often the whole case, and the answer sits in one line of one email among thousands. Two accounts, no comparison --------------------------- The witness statement and the contemporaneous documents tell different stories, but nobody has time to put every pair side by side. What Legalnaut does about it ---------------------------- - Events come out of the documents with their dates and land on one filterable timeline, each entry pointing at its document and page. - Claims are compared against each other; a conflicting pair is shown with both quotations, and reaches a draft only once a lawyer has confirmed it. - A proof chart sets each issue against the exhibits that carry it and marks the issues with nothing behind them yet. - When a letter relies on an earlier document, the two are linked, so the missing attachment in a chain of correspondence gets noticed. SCREENSHOT · TIMELINE screenshots/timeline.png The timeline of a commercial dispute, narrowed to one person and one quarter. Start with one case file and a 14-day trial. [See the plans](https://legalnaut.com/pricing). SCREENSHOT ![]()