Accident Evidence & Consultation Dossier Builder

Log incident facts, medical records, wage disruption, and communications in strict local privacy. Generate a chronological consultation brief before speaking to legal counsel.

Add Evidence Event

Event Title

Date

Approx. Time

Incident Chronology & Documented Loss

Documented Medical Bills $0

Verified Lost Wages $0

Property & Out-of-Pocket $0

How to Prepare for a Personal Injury Consultation

Attorneys need objective facts, verifiable expenses, and a clear timeline to assess liability and damages. Here is how to make the most of your free case review.

Consultation Best Practices

When meeting with an attorney after a motor vehicle accident, having your documentation organized by date prevents missed details and demonstrates the real impact on your life and income.

Preserve the contemporaneous sequence: Immediate post-accident medical symptoms carry stronger evidentiary weight than care sought weeks later.
Never sign a medical release prematurely: Insurers often ask for blanket medical records to search for unrelated pre-existing injuries.
Calculate gross lost earnings: Include missed overtime, used paid-time-off (PTO), and secondary gigs disrupted by doctor appointments.
Log claim communication: Note every adjuster call, name, badge or ID number, and stated reason for denial or delay.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a contingency fee consultation?

Most personal injury lawyers offer a 100% free initial consultation. If they take the case, they typically work on contingency, meaning legal fees are paid only as a percentage of any recovery obtained, not billed hourly upfront.

Why is redaction mode included here?

When requesting preliminary opinions or sending initial emails to prospective attorneys, you may not want your full Social Security number, home address, or policy identifiers exposed before an attorney-client relationship is formally established.

Does this tool send my files to any server?

No. This application runs entirely within your device's browser memory. Your names, costs, and timeline entries are never transmitted to any third party, cloud database, or remote server.

Categorized totals and selective masking

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The saved six-event example puts three thousand four hundred fifty and eight hundred fifty into the medical bucket. That is four thousand three hundred. The wage bucket holds seven hundred twenty, and every other category contributes to the other bucket, totaling four thousand eight hundred ninety in this sample. The sum is nine thousand nine hundred ten. The three segments use point zero four pixels per currency unit, giving widths one hundred seventy two, twenty eight point eight and one hundred ninety five point six. Together they reach three hundred ninety six point four. The amounts are entered sample values, not verified losses or a compensation forecast. Filtering changes the visible chronological cards but not the totals. The source first sorts a copied array by date and time, then filters that copy for display. Its totals function instead loops over all events. In the baseline example the medical filter shows two of six cards, yet the total remains nine thousand nine hundred ten. These two bars use fifty pixels per record, making the visible subset one hundred pixels and the underlying collection three hundred. The six-event count is not proof of six documents. Sorting dates also does not verify their accuracy. Adding or removing a record changes the underlying collection; switching a filter alone does not. Masking applies a small collection of regular expressions. Phone-like patterns are replaced, references beginning with a hash mark are replaced, and names following Officer, Doctor abbreviated with a period, or Adjustor are replaced. These rules do not remove every personal name or every institution. Both JSON and the text dossier call the same masking function for titles, descriptions and providers when redaction is enabled. The three equal growing blocks represent those three text fields at ninety pixels per field. Dates, costs and categories remain intact. The enabled flag records a mode; it does not certify that every sensitive detail is gone. Inspect the actual exports before sharing.