Proof chart

A proof chart is a table that sets each issue a party has to establish against the facts and exhibits that prove it, and shows where nothing does yet.

Before a pleading and before a hearing, counsel asks the same two questions: what do I have, and what am I missing. A proof chart answers both on one page, issue by issue, with the burden of proof marked and every exhibit either supporting or undermining.

Built by hand it lives in a spreadsheet and goes stale as disclosure arrives. Kept with the case file, it is the source for the evidentiary motion: each exhibit with the fact it is offered to prove, and each gap as a request for production.

In Legalnaut the chart belongs to a matter. Suggestions come from the matter's own documents, nothing attaches without a click, and an issue with nothing behind it is flagged as a gap.

Related: Exhibit, Claim, Chronology

Legalnaut builds this out of your own case file. See the plans.