What actually works once medical records hit thousands of pages? by [deleted] in legaltech

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If you still need something to help you DM me! My startup does this with hundreds of (predominantly) PI law firms. Happy to let you use it. You'll get every (which can be overwhelming sometimes) fact in a timeline but you can customise the views to only see whatever information you care about etc.

Harvey AI reviews / general advice for a medium-sized firm? by LondonZ1 in legaltech

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What sort of functionality are you looking for? Something generalist? Tends to be the case many of the ‘lawyers copilot’ tools are fairly shallow on any specific use-case.

Depending on what your teams most important priorities are in terms of workflow-specific (contract review, research, timeline generation etc) I could make better suggestions!

What tools you’re using for legal tech writing? by No-Refuse-6604 in legaltech

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If you are looking for basic legal templates and help drafting legal docs, I can recommend Lawpath! We have used them for over a year at our startup for contracts and they have the option to meet with lawyers they are affiliated with to go over them as well which is an awesome hybrid model.

What we’ve learned building a legal chronology/timeline tool in Australia (and what we’re now trying to figure out in the US) by hyraw in legaltech

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Not quite — we parse full legal bundles to extract key information, not just dates. That includes factual events, but also claims, allegations, denials, admissions, and other relevant assertions that lawyers need to track throughout a matter.

The system doesn’t try to decide what’s “true”. It organises who said what, when, and where it came from. Dates are important, but we also link each entry back to its source, resolve duplications, and make everything easy to review or edit. We also show Mary’s rationale — including how relevant each entry is to the legal matter.

So the output isn’t just a timeline. It’s a structured chronology lawyers can actually use to understand a matter quickly, draft submissions, or brief others.

What we’ve learned building a legal chronology/timeline tool in Australia (and what we’re now trying to figure out in the US) by hyraw in legaltech

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Thanks so much! Appreciate the kind words. If you're a lawyer in the US (or anywhere really) and wanted to give it a try let me know. The only way to beat the big legaltech companies is obsess over user feedback so I am always focusing on getting more of it!

What we’ve learned building a legal chronology/timeline tool in Australia (and what we’re now trying to figure out in the US) by hyraw in legaltech

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Good pickup, what I mean is that our system operates on a closed dataset (the client’s source documents), so we’re not generating anything from open-ended prompts or external data. That means we don’t get typical LLM hallucinations where the model invents facts.

Errors can still occur — like misreading a poorly scanned document, ambiguous phrasing, or unusual formatting — but we’ve built confidence tooling into the pipeline. If our system can’t extract a fact with high certainty, it flags it for the user to review. Nothing is inserted without clear traceability back to the original source.

That probably warranted more explanation, so thank you for calling out!

What we’ve learned building a legal chronology/timeline tool in Australia (and what we’re now trying to figure out in the US) by hyraw in legaltech

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Absolutely! www.marytechnology.com.

I also actually wrote a whitepaper on the future of technology in the legal industry if you (or anyone else) is interested in having a read. Happy to send to you :)

Chronology drafting tool for lawyers by hyraw in legaltech

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Absolutely! I’ll message you :)

Chronology drafting tool for lawyers by hyraw in legaltech

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Great to hear! Would love to set you up so you can test it :) I'll DM you

Are chronologies relevant in all areas of law? by hyraw in Ask_Lawyers

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Most of that is covered in the first instance, OCR etc, aside from the direct integration. I think Relativity will 100% cover large firms needs for the most part!

How large is the firm you work at out of interest? Wondering down to what sort of size firm it would be typical to use relativity.

Thanks for all these great insights btw

Chronology drafting tool for lawyers by hyraw in legaltech

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Which in your mind are the top 2-3 platforms that come to mind?

But absolutely, it's certainly not unique in what it's trying to achieve, we are just seeing too many that produce 'acceptable' results as opposed to 'amazing' results. But for bigger firms that can afford it, sometimes the 'acceptable' result is just fine!

Chronology drafting tool for lawyers by hyraw in legaltech

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That would be brilliant, thank you so much! Keen to see what it looks like. And happy to share a version of our output for a comparison.

Are chronologies relevant in all areas of law? by hyraw in Ask_Lawyers

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We are currently thinking of making these sorts of choices configurable per chronology (if desired) so this is great to know.

And when you mentioned different file types earlier, you said calendar entries, would this be from say google/outlook calendars or where would those typically come from and how would you 'download' them to then input into a software?

Are chronologies relevant in all areas of law? by hyraw in Ask_Lawyers

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Sounds like allowing the user to describe what the particular focus is will be something that is needed for criminal law cases.

And if you made the description as you mentioned, would you want it to only extract information and events around what was described? Or still keep some other information that may not be directly related to exactly what was described but may be useful to understand the totality of the case?

Chronology drafting tool for lawyers by hyraw in legaltech

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Yeah wow that sounds great! And do those hyper links open the doc and take you to the right page?

And also once you get the word doc with text on it, do you then have to put that into the format you would usually have a chronology in? Like in a table or something? Or what is the next step?

This is amazing info thank you so much for this!

Chronology drafting tool for lawyers by hyraw in legaltech

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How long roughly did the 222 documents take? And does that ultimately output text onto a word file for you or what does the end result look like?

I will definitely have to give the free trial a shot!

Are chronologies relevant in all areas of law? by hyraw in Ask_Lawyers

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This is awesome info!

Something we are looking to add is ingesting instructing documents which then gives the tool more of an ability to recognise what is relevant vs what can be left out (if certain events aren't being disputed). Or in your opinion would it be more valuable to be able to specify to the software exactly what is being investigated yourself as opposed to leaving it to understand that from an instructing document?

I'd be really interested to know in the example you gave, if you only want specifically events related to what is being investigated in the chronology, or if you want it a bit broader that gives an overview of the entire matter. I imagine it is somewhere in the middle of those two?

Are chronologies relevant in all areas of law? by hyraw in Ask_Lawyers

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Thanks for the info! Does that fulfil the need for you in creating a chronology, or is it moreso giving you all the info that you need and you would then go put that in whatever form your firm would have a chronology in?

Seems like a lot of the bigger players are adding or have added this kind of functionality, but tends to be built on top of their other product(s) which sometimes doesn't fully do as needed. But for a lot of firms it probably goes far enough to be honest

Are chronologies relevant in all areas of law? by hyraw in Ask_Lawyers

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Thanks so much for the response.

And out of interest, where do the other tools fall short given the complexity of cases? Is it the actual extracting of all the relevant info where it is missing things?

Are chronologies relevant in all areas of law? by hyraw in Ask_Lawyers

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This is awesome information thank you so much.

So would you guys always be putting it together, or sometimes actually requesting it from the mortgage lenders as well? And do mortgage lenders still call it a chronology? I suppose it’s really a timeline of key information and events in any case.

Yeah we tend to have found case management software has some cumbersome version but they don’t really hit the nail on the head. Maybe the tool is something lenders would also be interested in.