Ad Litem Consulting, Inc.

About Mark Lieb

Author’s Note

To Litigation Support Professionals

To Attorneys and Paralegals

1. Traditional Business Hierarchy

2. Chart – Traditional Business

3. Chart – Litigation Support

A. Shareholders

B. Chief Operating Officer

C. VP of Marketing

D. VP of Finance

E. VP of Operations

F. Production Manager

G. Clerk

1. Clerical Tasks

1. Management

A. Implementing Best Practices

1. Department and Firm Level Initiatives

2. Case Level Initiatives

B. Supporting Files

1. Department and Firm Level

2. Case Level

2. Marketing

A. Legal Team Relations

3. Financial

A. Accounting

1. What to Bill

2. Billable Hours

3. Media

4. Cost Codes

5. Revenue Sources

4. Operations

A. Budget Estimation

B. Computer Forensics

C. Document Review Systems

D. Electronic Discovery

E. Paper Discovery

F. Project Management

G. Storage

1. Small Firm

2. Medium and Large Firms

3. Hosting and Storage Options

4. On Hosted Solutions ("ASPs")

H. Technical Work

1. Staging Areas

2. Network Folders

I. Training

1. Litigation Support

2. Legal Team

3. Vendors

J. Vendor Relations

1. Financials

2. User Tools

3. Storage Assessment

4. Firm Technical Standards

5. Litigation Support Software

6. Department Hardware Capabilities

A. Read Media Formats

B. Read Operating Systems Formats

C. Optical Media Creation

7. Video

8. Media Inventory

9. Project Management

10. Network Configuration

11. Backup Routines

12. Disaster Recovery Plan

13. Training

14. Departmental Operations

15. Political Abilities

16. Ability to Bill

17. Vendors

18. Printing

1. Software

A. Litigation Support

1. Spreadsheet Program

2. Batch File and Folder Renaming Program

3. Text Editor

4. File-Folder Comparison

5. File Viewer

6. Database Programs

7. IPRO IConvert

8. Password Cracking

9. Macintosh Emulator

10. Email

B. Legal Team

1. Case Fact Management

2. Document Review Software

3. Transcripts

4. Depoware / Exhibitware

2. Hardware

A. Litigation Support

1. External Hard Drives

2. Hub

3. Smart Media Hub

4. iOmega Zip Drive

5. Administrative Server

6. Robotic Media Burners

7. Robot Loaders

8. Nylon Binders

9. Projector

10. Thumb Drives

11. Monitors

B. Legal Team

1. Trial and Deposition Hardware

2. Scanners

3. Fax Server

4. Monitors

1. Software Lifecycle

A. Phase 1 through Phase 3

B. Phase 4 through Phase 5

C. Phase 6

D. Phase 7

E. Phase 8

F. Phase 9

2. Case Lifecycle Task List

A. Phase 1 through Phase 3

B. Phase 4 through Phase 5

C. Phase 6

D. Phase 7

E. Phase 8

F. Phase 9

3. Discovery Lifecycle

A. Phase 1 through Phase 3

B. Phase 4 through Phase 5

C. Phase 6

D. Phase 7

E. Phase 8

F. Phase 9

1. Case Lifecycle Task List

A. Phases and Tasks

2. Collection to Production

A. Mass Collection

B. Filter for Extraction

C. Pre Production Database

D. Pre-Production Review

E. Create Production

F. Production Database

3. Department Status Reports

A. Marketing Report

B. Operations Report

C. Financial Report

4. Deposition and Trial Resource Sheet

5. Discovery Lifecycle Flowchart

6. Litigation Budget Spreadsheet

A. Budget Worksheet

B. Discovery Matrix Worksheet

C. Limiting Discovery Worksheet

D. Roles and Responsibilities Worksheet

7. Litigation Support QC Tasks

A. Discovery - Blow-Back Steps

B. Discovery - New Media

C. Discovery - Production Steps

8. New Matter Assessment Email

9. Server Organization Email

10. Vendor Compliance Email

11. Litigation Support Technical Standards

Acknowledgements

License

Preface

1.00 Introduction

1.01 For Vendors

1.02 For Firms

1.03 How to Use This Document

2.00 Business Standards

2.01 Outgoing Media Kit

2.02 Cost Codes for Litigation Support

2.03 Request for Quotes ("RFQs")

2.04 Quotes

2.05 Weekly Updates

2.06 Color Blindness

2.07 Quality Control

3.00 Technical Standards

3.01 Media Labels

3.02 File, Folder and Volume Naming

3.03 CD Content and Organization

3.04 Organization of Sub-Folders

3.05 Bates Schemes

3.06 Data Files

3.07 Database Conventions

3.08 Native Files

3.09 Project Specifications Document

3.10 Bibliographical Coding Manual

3.11 Image Format

3.12 OCR

3.13 Slip-Sheets or Unitization Rules

3.14 Video

3.15 Synchronization

3.16 Transcripts

3.17 Delivery Media

4.00 Software Specific Requirements

4.01 Casesoft Suite

4.02 IPRO

4.03 Dataflight's Concordance and Opticon

4.04 Image Capture Engineering

4.05 Summation

4.06 iCONECT

4.07 inData TrialDirector

4.nn Additional Titles to Follow

5.00 Examples of What Not To Do

5.01 Media Labels

5.02 File / Folder / Volume Name Conventions

5.03 Database

5.04 Media Content

5.05 Load Files

5.06 OCR

5.07 Opticon Load Files

5.08 Image Format

5.09 Transcripts

5.10 General Errors / Issues

5.11 Real Experiences