What is common, between a smart lawyer, straight out of a John Grisham novel, and the head of a legal consultancy firm in New York have in common? It could well be the amount of legal data they have to handle. The legal information an average lawyer receives, reviews and works with, can be astoundingly huge.
Legal coding, and assorting and arranging information, is no child's play. And that is why more often than not, legal firms find litigation coding a tough nut to crack.
How can indexing be so complicated ?
We've all worked on projects and indexed our work as early as high school. But why does legal coding make legal professionals break in to a cold sweat? It is the sheer volume of work involved. The process is fraught with complexities and can trip you up if you are not looking closely!
A pile of work !
Finding the legal document you need on a hearing morning can be like searching for a needle in a hay stack. You tell yourself every New Year that you are going to arrange it in to a neat and structured database. And quickly forget about it.
Coding, subjectively and objectively !
Sorting out files by date and sorting out files by specifics, is the basic difference between subjective and objective coding. If sorting out files by date sets your nerves on edge, sorting them by relevance can be even more tiresome. Letting your intern handle the entire litigation coding process could mean two things. An intern, with frayed nerves, who is waiting to run away or hastily, coded documents.
Image conversion for a perfect legal database !
Converting data into images and using the OCR system is essential to maintain a streamlined data base. But who has the time for it ? You'll have to painstakingly convert an array of textual data into images. And ensure the OCR docume
Unitizing disparate data and focusing on logical and physical determination of data storage and allocation is another major pain in the neck.
If you don't have the budget to hire an army of professionals, and not a maverick multi- tasker, outsourcing could be a sensible option.
There are several professional litigation coding services companies that offer coding support. Letting someone else handle your coding headaches can prove to be a smart move.
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