A case chronology arranges every relevant event in date order with a citation to the document or testimony establishing it. Entries typically include the date, the event, the actors involved, and the source.
It is built from medical records, correspondence, productions, testimony, and incident documentation, and it is updated as discovery proceeds.
Alternative Names:
Case Timeline, Fact Chronology
Why it Matters?
The chronology is the working document a case team consults most often, and gaps or conflicts in it are frequently the case itself: a treatment gap, an incident report created after the fact, or testimony inconsistent with a contemporaneous record. Building it once with source citations avoids the common pattern where each new team member reconstructs it from scratch, and it is the input from which issue outlines and witness materials derive.
Frequently Confused with
Frequently asked questions
What belongs in a case chronology?
Is a chronology discoverable?
