building-chronologies

When to Use

• A lawyer needs a timeline from a bundle, disclosure set, correspondence folder, witness statement set, or case file.
• The user asks "what happened when" or needs chronology support for pleadings, advice, witness prep, mediation, or trial.
• The output must cite each event back to a source document.

Do not use this skill to fill gaps from memory. A chronology is only as reliable as its sources.

Audience and Work Shape

Audience: litigators, trainees, paralegals, and litigation-support teams building first-pass chronologies for lawyer review.

Work shape: bounded extraction with accretive judgment. The skill extracts dated events from sources, then applies judgment to de-duplicate, flag conflicts, and surface gaps. It does not decide what happened.

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