| Litigation coding commonly refers to the process of | | | | It has become necessary for the legal support |
| creating summary or keyword data from a document. | | | | professionals to learn newer skills as technology |
| They are mainly used in the legal profession for the | | | | develops and changes. The litigation support person |
| purpose of creating a quick-search index or database | | | | has the responsibility and challenge of collecting and |
| of documents to be used in litigation. | | | | reviewing electronic evidence that are stores in |
| OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is a tool used to | | | | computers and servers. It is not sufficient that an |
| code huge volumes of legal documents. Whenever | | | | electronic discovery expert just extracts data from |
| we scan any document it is always saved only as an | | | | computers. |
| image file and so we cannot edit it. But with OCR it | | | | Attorneys and the parties involved in any legal case |
| becomes possible to scan a printed document and | | | | have to decide even at the outset the file format in |
| directly transfer it into word-processing software like | | | | which evidences can be presented after considering |
| MS Word and then edit it. | | | | the preservation of the chain of evidence. There are |
| An outsourcing partner that provides litigation | | | | many available e-discovery tools that are used to |
| document services generally helps attorneys, legal | | | | annotate documents, classify etc. |
| concerns and advisors. The service provider manages | | | | The public may have wrong impression on your |
| data for these professionals. To be useful, such | | | | business although you were able to win the case - |
| information must be customized to suit client | | | | Most of the times; people will choose to believe |
| preferences. | | | | negative criticisms or bad issues rather than the |
| The record in any database has to be coded and | | | | decision of the court acquitting a company of any fault. |
| indexed so that data can be easily and quickly | | | | As part of their duty to protect the public from |
| retrieved whenever required. | | | | incompetent and unethical lawyers, state bar |
| A litigation lawyer knows the laws that operate for his | | | | associations publish summaries of discipline |
| protection and to enable him to practice litigation in the | | | | proceedings in their professional magazines and |
| socio-culture of checks and balances. He is a | | | | journals. But what happens if their accounts contain |
| professional, and there is no excuse for his ignorance if | | | | false or misleading information? |
| found culpable. | | | | Case citations are used by the common law countries |
| Alternate dispute resolution consists of mediation or | | | | to find the location of past court cases. The citation |
| arbitration before a neutral party approved by both the | | | | standard varies from country to country. Following is a |
| association and the member. Mediation consists of a | | | | list of citation standards used by the respective |
| process whereby the neutral party tries to persuade | | | | countries. |
| both sides to reach an agreement. | | | | We conduct research on industry standard private |
| A recurring theme in Microsoft's veiled threats is eerily | | | | databases as well as public domain databases to |
| similar to the now near defunct SCO -- bombastic | | | | provide research support to your team of lawyers to |
| claims are not being public vetted. Microsoft is very | | | | win/defend litigation or to provide counsel to clients on |
| closed lip about what specific patents are allegedly | | | | complex issues. |
| being violated and how. | | | | |