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Class Name |
Description |
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Litigation Support Technology Overview |
Goal:
Provide a basic understanding of the technologies involved in managing large
document discovery projects. Topics:
 | Document indexing (coding) |
| Document imaging |
| Optical character recognition (OCR) |
| Litigation support vendors |
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Electronic Discovery: "How to" for Paralegals
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Goal:
Instruct legal assistants in best practices for performing electronic
discovery with clients. Each attendee receives a disk with production tools,
work plans, and actual computer commands for downloading relevant data.
Topics:
| Suggestions for client interview content |
| Varieties of media subject to production |
| Cost Models for various approaches |
| Methods to control quality and track processes |
| Handling issues related to Meta-data |
| Issues related to data production versus electronic documents |
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Preparing a Trial Presentation |
Goal:
Attendees explore the logistics of collecting electronic evidence for
presentation in the court room as well as best practices for layout in
electronic presentation systems in order to develop a persuasive
presentation. Topics:
| Software options for presentation |
| Best practice approaches for video taped transcripts |
| Demonstratives versus evidence presentation issues |
| Presenting electronic records including Meta-data |
| Strategies for effective graphics |
| Best uses for equipment choices |
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| How to
Manage a Litigation Support Vendor/Service Bureau |
Goal:
Prepare participants to effectively manage relationships with scanning,
coding, OCR, repository, and electronic discovery conversion service
providers. Topics:
| Defining requirements |
| Drafting a request for proposal (RFP) |
| Defining acceptance criteria |
| Negotiating pricing and scheduling |
| Quality control |
| What the vendor needs from you to be successful |
| Outsourcing consultants |
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| Case
Studies: When the Smoking Gun Lies in Systems, Not Paper |
Goal:
Explore the potential sources of case relevant data and strategic approaches
for the collection, evaluation, and presentation of same. Topics:
| Possible Data Sources |
| Third party resources to assist with collection |
| Third party resources to assist with analysis |
| Handling Meta-data |
| Relevant case references and precedents |
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Strategies for Concurrent Production of Paper and Electronic Documents
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Goal:
Overview approaches for concurrent production of electronic and paper
discovery records and best practices to efficiently prepare for the
deposition/trial outcomes exploiting discovery work. Topics:
| Discovery trends |
| Electronic Discovery practices |
| Paper discovery practices |
| Merging electronic and paper discovery for tactical evaluations |
| Transitioning from collection to analysis to presentation of produced
information |
| Cost justifications early electronic capture |
| Uses for electronic discovery |
| Key issues for communicating to case manager or client |
| New skills required for paralegals in an electronic discovery
environment |
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Fundamentals of Databases for Legal Professionals |
Goal:
Familiarize legal professionals with the basics of database technology, the
backbone of all computerized information management systems. Topics:
| Database structure (types of fields) |
| Bibliographic vs. full text databases |
| Search techniques |
| How data gets into a database |
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