Relationships

Relationships track how players in your case are connected — who hired whom, who communicated with whom, contractual ties, legal representation, and more.

Creating Relationships

1. Open the Data tab in your timeline
2. Navigate to the Relations table
3. Click Add Relationship
4. Select:
   • From: The originating player
   • To: The receiving player
   • Type: The nature of the connection (e.g., “represented by”, “contracted with”, “employed by”)
5. Save

Relationships are also created automatically when Thea extracts events from documents and detects interactions between players.

Viewing Relationships

Relationships appear in two places:

• Data tab → Relations table: Full list with from/to players and relationship type
• Network View: Visual force-directed graph showing all connections (see Network View)

Relationship Types

Common relationship types in legal timelines:

• Legal representation: “represented by”, “counsel for”
• Employment: “employed by”, “director of”
• Contractual: “contracted with”, “supplier to”
• Communication: “corresponded with”, “notified”
• Corporate: “subsidiary of”, “shareholder in”

You can use any label — relationships are free-text.

Editing and Deleting

• Click a relationship in the Relations table to edit
• Use the delete button to remove a relationship
• Changes are reflected immediately in the Network View