Litigation Codes

litigation codes

Litigation Coding Techniques

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

Bankruptcy question…..?

I am a commercial litigation attorney, but have very little experience with bankruptcy. Here is a situation that a family member has found herself in.

Just from personal experience having gone through a personal bankruptsy, I’d say no they can’t. The statute of limi-
tations is seven years. They have until that time, to demand
payment. After that, they no longer have the right. But there
are those who are persistant, and will try to scare the debtor
into paying, even if they don’t have the legal right to do so.
Sometimes persistance pays.