Chronology

A chronology is a dated list of the events in a dispute, each one traceable to the document that evidences it.

A chronology is the backbone of a case. Counsel builds one to see the sequence of events plainly, to spot the gap where nothing happened, and to hand the court a single ordered account instead of a bundle.

What separates a working chronology from a list of dates is provenance. Every entry names the document it came from, so an opponent challenging an entry can be answered by pointing at the source rather than by memory.

Built by hand, a chronology of a thousand-document file takes days and goes stale the moment new disclosure arrives. Built from the documents themselves, it updates when the file does.

Related: Contradiction, Exhibit, Provenance

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