Chronicle Name Normalization + aiR Priv = Better Privilege Reviews
- Tim Randall
- 4 days ago
- 4 min read
Accuracy and efficiency are everything when handling privileged information. That's why Milyli's Chronicle and RelativityOne's aiR for Privilege make such a powerful team. Together, reduce or eliminate manual work and improve the end-to-end quality of your privilege reviews.
What is Relativity aiR for Priv?
aiR for Privilege is RelativityOne's AI-powered tool for automating the identification of privileged documents and information. It uses generative AI, natural language processing, machine learning, and social network analysis to analyze document content and metadata, helping legal teams quickly determine privilege status.
Relativity's aiR for privilege can play a key role in the privilege process. It can identify potentially privileged documents, help locate non-obvious actors in email bodies, and present this information for review, quality control, and decision-making. Utilizing Relativity fields on the document object makes this information available elsewhere.
How Chronicle Works
In this context, Chronicle provides two distinct solutions that work perfectly together but can also be used independently.
As its namesake suggests, Chronicle is a comprehensive template builder that gives users the power to construct custom reports. Name it, pick a Saved Search, and fill it with unique columns combining plain text, field values, and complex condition statements similar to a Relativity Saved Search. This is great for creating privilege logs but flexible enough for various other Relativity-sourced reports.
Chronicle's superpower isn't just playing well with others – it also saves the day with advanced and easy-to-configure Name Normalization functionality. Users pick the Relativity fields for normalizing and Chronicle extracts and stage the aliases for normalization. Additionally, Chronicle users experience unmatched ease when normalizing with the options of Guided Normalization, filtering, uploading known aliases to entity relationships, and even up-cycling data from previous cases.
How Chronicle Works with aiR for Privilege
Suppose aiR for Privilege brings the brain when helping find, classify, and explain why something is privileged. In that case, Chronicle provides the muscle power necessary for organizing decisions, cleaning up participants, and performing quality control faster.
The most common opportunity to pair aiR for Priv and Chronicle involves a case team starting aiR for Privilege early in the case's lifetime, per Relativity's recommendation. By following Relativity's Privilege Project pipeline, teams will significantly reduce the number of documents needing validation during a final privilege check. After populating privilege results, review teams have two options.
Option one is to begin the quality control review and finalize privilege decisions, including withheld privileges and partial privileges for redaction and production. In this workflow, names are typically manually extracted from the bodies of emails and added to top-level Relativity fields as needed. During this pass, privilege reasons generated by aiR are also quality-controlled and corrected where required.
Option two is to go it alone without Chronicle, which takes a little longer by running Relativity's name normalization, an additional QC stage after that, and then proceeding to the process above.
Chronicle can be used immediately on a potentially privileged document set regardless of the chosen workflow. Why? Because review teams can point their Chronicle report template and a Chronicle Name Normalization project at the appropriate saved search at startup. Chronicle will extract the aliases from the selected fields, and normalization can begin. Both processes can proceed simultaneously, virtually eliminating all of the work typically performed in Excel after review.
How These Best Buds Work Better Together
We've established that aiR for Privilege can be called the brain behind a privilege review workflow. But even Batman, the "world's greatest detective," needs Alfred to help him stay organized.
Chronicle ensures your dynamic duos—I mean, dynamic workflows—produce consistent names, clean metadata, and up-to-date logs. Every time you make a decision with aiR, Chronicle can automatically adapt. Your logs will reflect decisions in real time and incorporate new ones as you find them with aiR.
Together, they:
SHA'ZAM! Improve accuracy through standardized data and AI predictions.
ZO'WEE! Save time by reducing manual review and formatting.
KA'POW! Support compliance with detailed logs and audit-ready snapshots.
Where They Shine Brightest Together
When aiR for Privilege and Chronicle team up, they help you tackle big challenges. The following are just a handful of these use cases:
Large-Scale Litigation:Â Handle thousands of documents with speed and precision.
Complex Privilege Scenarios:Â Tackle nuanced privilege issues with confidence.
Ongoing Compliance:Â Maintain up-to-date, defensible privilege logs over time.
Additional Opportunities to Team Them Up
Chronicle is more than just privilege! Our customers have put Chronicle to work for various normalization and report-building purposes. Take a look at some of the following use-cases to see how our customers have extracted even more value with the product:
Second Requests: Tackle large volumes of names and data amid extremely tight deadlines.
Redaction Logs:Â Track redaction for Rule 5.2(g) court filings.
Employee Investigations: Normalize names on documents to vastly simplify the investigation process--make sure your review team always knows who is who!
Data Breach Notifications:Â Evaluating all name fields for aliases and normalizing them to help construct notification lists can add peace of mind to data breach processes.
Cross-Workspace Normalization:Â Standardize names across multiple Relativity workspaces and reuse your work product anywhere needed.
Chronicle is more than a priv log builder—it's a privilege review accelerator. When paired with aiR for Privilege, it becomes a critical part of a modern, AI-enhanced legal workflow. It helps eliminate the need for Excel-based logs in RelativityOne, offering a more scalable, accurate, and collaborative solution.