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Medical chronology and paginated production guides for US attorneys.

Short, practical pieces for personal-injury and medical-malpractice teams — on getting medical evidence organised for disclosure and trial. Chronologies, continuous pagination for production, and what records review actually costs.

Featured · Medical evidence

What makes a medical chronology ready for counsel?

A chronology earns its place in a production when opposing counsel — or the court — can check any line against the underlying record in seconds. Three things get you there.

1. Every entry is cited. A date, a finding and a provider mean little without a pointer to the page they came from. A production-ready chronology references the source document and page on every line, so nothing has to be taken on trust.

2. It’s genuinely chronological. Records arrive interleaved across treating physicians, hospitals and therapy providers. Ordering strictly by date of encounter — and showing where the index injury sits — is what turns a pile of pages into a narrative.

3. It separates relevant from incidental. Decades of unrelated history bury the point. The skill is surfacing what bears on causation, condition and prognosis, and parking the rest — while keeping the full record one click away.

Med-Legal builds all three automatically, then hands it to counsel to review and approve. The reading is done for you; the judgment stays with you.

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Records review cost calculator

Compare typical agency hourly rates with per-document pricing. Set your page count and see.

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Medical chronology for personal injury attorneys

The HIPAA right of access (30 days, cost-based fee), Rule 26 initial disclosure and the expert's "facts or data considered", FRE 803(4)/(6) — quoted — and what a chronology costs per hour vs per document.

Guide · ~6 min · Read →
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Free medical chronology template (US, .docx)

A Word chronology template for PI and med-mal matters: cover block, six-column table with a Bates-cited source column, two worked example rows. No email, no account.

Template · Word · Download →
Workflow

Why every AI-assisted summary needs a review gate

How to use automation for the reading without ever letting an unreviewed draft reach disclosure or the other side.

Guide · ~4 min · Read →
Comparison

Med-Legal vs InPractice, Dodo, Casefleet & more: chronology services compared (2026)

Which free trial has no clock, who charges per page and who per document, and what a 2,000-page file actually costs on each — eight services side by side, from their own published pages.

Comparison · ~8 min · Read →
Bundles

How to prepare a paginated, indexed medical production

Getting pagination, ordering and provider grouping right so your production stands up at disclosure and at trial.

Guide · ~7 min · Read →
Costs

Cutting the cost of records review in PI claims

Where the hours actually go in records review — and how pay-as-you-go tooling changes the maths on lower-value files.

Guide · ~5 min · Read →
Bundles

What is pagination in medical records?

What it means, why it matters for a legal bundle, and the electronic-bundle rule most services don't spell out.

Guide · ~4 min · Read →
Definitions

What is a medical chronology?

A precise definition, a worked example, and the distinction from a medical summary that most guides gloss over.

Guide · ~5 min · Read →

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