In a previous article on the topic of electronic discovery, I began the conversation about a term we use called “processing”. As I mentioned in that article, the term “processing” encompasses many steps, which can make it one of the most difficult topics to teach to newbies in litigation support. Some of the “processing” steps…
In a previous article, I discussed “stop words” and within the free resource at the bottom of the article, I mentioned a search engine called dtSearch. You may not be aware that you are using dtSearch because it is “baked in” to many of the legal industry database systems we use. To increase the success of…
Have you ever gotten frustrated running search queries against a database and it won’t find what you’re looking for? One reason for the lack of success could be that you are not aware of the “stop words” (also called “noise words”) in your particular database system. Over the years, I have had frustrated paralegals and attorneys…
Another topic when training a litigation support newbie is the concept of how we go about getting searchable documents for our document databases. One of the most important reasons why we provide litigators with document databases is to enable the legal team to perform searches across all of the documents in order to find the…
When training a newbie in litigation support, I always explain to them the concept of control numbers versus bates numbers. In order to create a litigation document database, we need every record (document) in the database to have a unique identifier field. The criteria for the contents of this field is as follows: 1. The value…
One of the best practices in Legal Project Management (LPM) is demonstrating to the legal teams how we techies can add value. We were having a team meeting related to a case that had a large document database in Relativity. The legal team had several concurrent sub-projects for this matter. The attorneys were teamed up to resolve…
One of the expressions I use in the world of litigation support is “A database is a database is a database“. When we are exposed to yet another database tool for the first time this expression will apply because all databases have the same basic features. It is just a matter of finding out where…
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