:Harvey: In Practice: How to Build a Case Chronology From Emails

Harvey In Practice is our series where legal experts show real workflows in Harvey in action. This episode features Laura Toulme, Applied Legal Researcher at Harvey and former Associate at Hecker Fink LLP and Law Clerk for the Fourth Circuit and Southern District of New York. In the video, she walks through using Harvey to review a set of emails and extract key details for a case in just a few minutes.

When you’re preparing for settlement discussions or building a case chronology, you often start with hundreds of emails, each containing fragments of the story you need to tell. Finding the key detail that supports your argument or fills a gap in your timeline can take hours of manual review.

Harvey enables you to extract, organize, and analyze that information in minutes. Upload your email set to Vault and build a review table to easily extract information like sender, recipient, subject, and other key terms from all correspondence. With Harvey, you can find the key detail that moves your case forward, faster.

Start by uploading all of the emails into a vault and selecting the documents you want to analyze. In the example above, it’s a set of 800 emails. From there, create a review table.

You can build out the table by adding questions one by one, or using column builder to add multiple at once. Type your questions just like you are asking a colleague the questions. For example:

Harvey will classify each column based on the type of response you want: verbatim for exact language, free response for summaries, or classification for “Yes” or “No” questions. You can add up to 50 columns and review every answer with direct access to the source document for verification. In our example, Harvey extracts five fields across 800 documents (4,000 data points at once) in minutes.

Once the table is loaded, you can interact with it to gain more insights:

Instead of having to manually review hundreds of emails, Harvey lets you quickly identify and organize the information that matters most to your case, while keeping every step transparent and verifiable.

Want to put together case chronologies in minutes, not hours? Contact our team to see how Harvey can support your organization.