Ad Litem Consulting, Inc.

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Introduction

This is a living document. Download the latest version from http://www.eDiscovery.org, for free.

Aside from the Introduction section, every section should be generic enough that any vendor or firm can adopt it for use.

Due to history, some examples in this document are Concordance oriented. Even so, all users should benefit from the best practices outlined.

Please respect the law and the license; include the copyright information. Creating this document has taken more hours than I care to admit.

To access the best practices which the firm can institute internally, visit http://www.AdLitem.com. Here are three opinions about the best practices book, Litigation Support Department.

An Attorney Opinion

"It's a thorough, hands-on roadmap of how to set up a litigation support department and how to make an existing department better, written by someone with actual experience in creating a successful lit support department. In short, it's exactly what you would like to have at hand when building a lit support department. It includes checklists, useful files on CDs and a detailed roadmap of the steps in the litigation process where lit support personnel can be employed effectively. If you have the task of creating, building or managing a lit support department, get a copy of this book as your starting guide. It'll take you a long way."

- Dennis Kennedy, DennisKennedy.com

A Litigation Support Opinion

"[I] have worked as a Litigation Support Specialist at a firm and basically created the department and its standards. However I grew frustrated with the office politics of not knowing how to involve Lit Support with the firm's practices. I wish my former employer had the same foresight as my current one to utilize the standards and practices proposed by this book."

- Domingo Rodriguez, C2 Legal

 A Paralegal Opinion

"I estimate that using the template Specs saved me at least 50 hours of independent research in drafting the E&A Vendor Specs...The work that I received back from the vendor using the specs was absolutely perfect and loaded and tested without any errors."

- Priscilla Rush, Head of Litigation Support
Formerly at Edward Angell Palmer & Dosdge LLP

License

Introduction