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A person’s complete Facebook history
is available right now.
Make it usable with Recap Legal.
Posts, photos, and private Messenger conversations can be requested as a single archive file. Recap Legal transforms that archive into a paginated, legally referenceable document ready for strategy, discovery, and court. Both Facebook and Instagram archives supported.
Recap Legal saves you time and surfaces evidence you won’t get any other way.
Four Ways Attorneys Put Archives to Work
A Facebook archive is not a single-use tool. The same document can serve your case at multiple stages, and every document can be scoped to exactly the time period that matters.
Investigation
Before formal discovery, use your own client’s archive to build a complete, searchable record of their activity. Messenger history is particularly powerful — the archive contains both sides of every conversation, with full timestamps, going back to the beginning of the account.
Discovery
During formal discovery, counsel may request archives from the opposing party. Recap Legal provides the complete workflow — from instructions for requesting the archive to delivery of a Bates-stampable PDF.
Demonstrative Evidence
Archives obtained through discovery or subpoena can be transformed into demonstrative evidence. Each post carries a sequential number and archive file path so any item can be traced directly to its source.
Targeted Date Ranges
You specify the relevant period. The archive contains everything; the document contains only what your case requires. Both Timeline and Messenger documents are produced for the date range you define — no matter which phase of the case you are in.
Two Documents. One Complete Record.
Each product transforms a Facebook archive into a document built for legal use — paginated, timestamped, and ready for your existing workflow.
Recap Legal Timeline
A complete, paginated record of public posts and photos within a specified date range. Every post assigned a sequential number and exhibit label. Full timestamps. Archive file paths. Hyperlinked table of contents by year. Bates-stampable with Adobe Acrobat.
Recap Legal Messenger
The complete Facebook Messenger history from an archive. Both sides of every conversation, organized by contact. Full timestamps on every message. One of the most significant capabilities of the Facebook archive format — and invisible to attorneys who don’t know the archive exists.
Timeline + Messenger Bundle
Both products on the same archive. The complete picture.
Built for Attorney Ethical Requirements
Attorneys are bound by ABA ethical rules on client data and third-party vendors. Recap Legal takes that seriously.
Archive files are transferred via dedicated encrypted file transfer links — one per archive, created individually for each matter. No shared upload portals. No commingled files. Every case is handled as a discrete, documented transfer.
Chain of custody and data handling documentation is available on request.
Instructions for opposing counsel, transformation of the archive, and delivery of a court-ready document.
- Step-by-step instructions for requesting and downloading the Facebook archive
- Dedicated encrypted file transfer link for each archive
- Transformation of archive into a paginated, sequentially numbered PDF
- Delivery of finished document via secure link
- Every item traceable to its source file in the original archive
- Document is Bates-stampable using your existing tools
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