Help with Search (Search Syntax and Search Operators)
As I was applying to ILTA volunteer positions, I watched the “Residual Effects of Volunteering,” a timely webinar. It amped me up even further, seeing the potential to engage in building a community with other smart, excited individuals. Panelists on the webinar were: Melanie Prevost –...
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Please enjoy this blog post tip from Amy Bowser-Rollins, Instructor, Litigation Support Guru. Have you ever had an attorney ask you to track down “something” or “someone” by running Google searches? I know I have! Google has some nifty search tools that can help you narrow down what you’re...
Please enjoy this co-authored blog post from Liz Bonelli, IT A nalyst, Bayer U.S. LLC a nd Carolyn Robinson, eDiscovery Associate for the Americas - Office of the Regional General Counsel, Robert Bosch, LLC (RBNA) Legal Department. To ensure your IT department acts...
Use a text editor to extract a list of Bates numbers from a pleading, expert report, etc. If you've ever been asked to pull all documents cited in interrogatory responses or listed in the footnote of an expert report, you can use a text editor (I use UltraEdit, but TextPad and Notepad++ have...
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Calling All Young and New Professionals If you are a young professional (40 years or younger), or new to legal (working in this space fewer than five years), we would love to hear from you! As we look to the future, we recognize that engagement and participation from early career and...
In litigation support, we often receive data in formats that may not work for our software platforms. A key example is the date field. Dates can be formatted in many different ways, but the software platform may only recognize one format for sorting purposes. Therefore, extracting the date...
Please enjoy this blog post tip co-authored by Matt Maslow, Senior Manager, Deloitte Canada, and Peter Sanford, Director, Deloitte Canada. Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have the Jetsons' robot maid, Rosie, simplifying our lives. Yet so far, all we...
Please enjoy this blog post authored by Carolyn Anger, Senior Director, Consilio. I am a note-taker. Always have been, always will be—to-do lists, checklists, weekly and monthly plans, meeting notes, and journal writing. I recorded information with my pen of choice for most of my school...
In a recent ILTA podcast featuring Josh Lazar, Chief Information Officer, 18th Judicial Circuit, Florida and Sean McGinty, Learning Product Engineer, Simplify Compliance, they touched upon several great resources to enhance your skills and how to go about taking that first step forward in...
It’s hard to argue the beauty and power of Excel as a tool for Litigation Support. The vast number of functions available make it a fantastic starting point for any changes you have to make to data. Whether you’re editing a load file, creating an index, preparing a report, or making your...