In the fast-paced world of law, time is everything. Lawyers juggle complex cases with countless details, deadlines, and events. A legal timeline serves as a visual roadmap, organizing facts chronologically to reveal patterns, strengthen arguments, and streamline presentations. But creating one from scratch can feel overwhelming. Enter TrialLine, a cloud-based tool designed specifically for attorneys. … Read more
For international clients, we are happy to share with you how to set-up TrialLine legal timelines software to default to alternative international date formats. We now support European, South American, and Asian date formats (as well as those used in the United States). You can also retroactively change the date format of existing TrialLines.
TrialLine recently introduced a ‘Criteria Filter’ option that enables you to choose which events on your TrialLine display, based on a specific set of criteria.
The ‘Criteria Filter’ works differently than the traditional filter option in TrialLine, in that it only displays events that match the specific criteria you select from the ‘Criteria Filter’ menu.
TrialLine recently added a new ‘Contacts’ feature that enables you to add contacts to your TrialLines, and these contacts can then be associated with specific events, facts and documents.
This allows you to create contact-specific views of your TrialLine that can be used in depositions, witness examinations or as a visual aid to help you get a better understanding of a particular person’s role in your case.
One of the most helpful features that TrialLine provides is the ability to sort which events are displayed along your timeline and which are not, by filtering out events based on what category they are included in, and/or what tags are attached to them.
Controlling the way that the facts and details of your case are presented is the key to creating the narrative of your case. And this is important for a number or reasons.
Not only is it the key to creating a compelling and efficient narrative when in front of a judge or jury, it’s also a key aspect of your case preparation. Remember, sometimes it’s the paring down of information that is required to clarify a story, or bring to light important information.
TrialLine users have the ability to ‘tag’ the events on their legal case timeline, and those tags can then be used in the filtering system to control which events are being displayed on the TrialLine at any given time.
This filtering system allows users to create specific ‘views’ by combining different ‘category’ and ‘tag’ filters, which can then be used to communicate specific and important details about the case.
This enables users to get very granular with their data, and have a great deal of control over how the facts in the case are presented, and this can make the communication of important information more efficient and compelling.
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to manage the files in your legal case timeline, and explain the various file management features available in TrialLine that can help you stay organized.
In TrialLine, the ‘Rendered View’ is a responsive view of your case timeline. That means the placement of the individual events and how they display, changes and responds depending on your zoom level.
As you zoom into your TrialLine, the events spread themselves out and move away from each other. As you zoom out of your TrialLine, the events move closer together. This enables you to change the focus of your timeline as needed, zooming in to focus on a particular event or zooming out to see multiple events at one time, and to see how far apart in time the events occurred, in relation to one another.
TrialLine users are able to link to secondary TrialLines in their accounts, from within a specific primary TrialLine. This is helpful because it allows users to easily access information, documents and events on a secondary TrialLine that may be related to the primary TrialLine, but that covers a separate aspect of the case.
