ChronoVault

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  ChronoVault transforms your case materials into an intelligent, interactive chronology. It automatically extracts key facts, dates, parties, and events from your uploaded documents, making it easier to assess the completeness of your case, organize follow-up tasks, and build a stronger, more defensible argument. Whether for trial preparation, discovery, or case review, ChronoVault helps you understand the story behind your documents and build stronger legal arguments from the facts.

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ChronoVault lives inside a matter. Create the matter first, and ChronoVault builds automatically from the documents you upload to it.

Getting Started: Building Your Case Timeline

1. Create a Matter

   • From the sidebar, select Matter Management, then click Create New Matter.

   

2. Complete the Matter Intake

   • Provide key details such as:
     • • Matter Name
     • • Background and Legal Focus
     • • Jurisdiction, Filing Court and Precedent Court
     • • Client Name
     • • Client Role (Plaintiff or Defendant)

   

3. Upload Your Documents

   • • Drag and drop your files into the upload window — simply dump all relevant documents into the matter.
   • • Supported formats include PDF, Word (DOCX), ODT and TXT, emails (EML/MSG), images (JPEG/PNG/WEBP), presentations and spreadsheets (PPTX, XLSX, CSV), audio and video, and ZIP archives.
   • • Once you click Create Matter, ingestion runs in the background. You can leave the page — NexLaw notifies you when the vault is ready.

   

Working with ChronoVault

Open the Chronovault tab inside your matter. ChronoVault organizes your case materials into four key views, each designed to help you see the full picture of your case, connect facts to evidence, and prepare stronger filings.

1. Interact with your Documents

   • • View and manage all materials uploaded to the matter.
   • • Each document is automatically summarised in a Context column and tagged for relevance and privilege — Key Exhibit, Privileged, or Non Responsive — helping you focus on what truly matters.
   • • Filter by tag, flag or size, and sort by name or date.

   

2. Interact with your Events

   • • ChronoVault extracts facts and events directly from your documents, linking each to its original source for verification.

   • Each event is automatically assigned:

     • • a Relevance Score, showing how important it is to your case; and
     • • a Legal Principle, highlighting the governing doctrine or issue (e.g., negligence, breach of contract, causation).

   

3. Interact with your Evidence

   • • This view shows every fact or event alongside its supporting (corroborating) and conflicting (contradicting) documents.
   • • ChronoVault also flags potential missing evidence — helping you identify discovery gaps before opposing counsel does.

   

4. Interact with your Entities

   • • View all key players in your matter, including parties, witnesses, experts, and organizations, each with the role ChronoVault inferred from your documents.

   

5. Interact with your Assistant

   • • Click Ask Assistant to open your on-demand case expert.
   • • You can ask natural-language questions (e.g., “Which exhibits establish the timeline of events?” or “Show me evidence contradicting the witness statement from June 10”).
   • • The Assistant responds with precise answers, directly citing the relevant documents, passages, and facts — so you can verify every statement in context.

   

Exporting and Integrating with TrialPrep

1. Export Your Chronology

   • • Once finalized, click Export and choose Export as PDF or Export as DOCX.

   

2. Continue in TrialPrep

   • • Open the TrialPrep tab in the same matter.
   • • TrialPrep uses these extracted facts and verified timelines as the foundation for your case strategy, evidence assessment, and argument generation.