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Electronic Litigator consists of a suite of five computerized litigation support services (Law, Summation, AL Coder, WebBlaze and Trial Director). They each can be utilized separately or in conjunction with one another. As the litigation life cycle begins with discovery, Electronic Litigator first enters this world with Law.
LAW 5.0
Law inventories, culls and extracts information both from scanned paper documents and from electronic records. This means it will actually take data from the electronic discovery, de-duplicate email strings so it shows the entire string in one email rather than in multiple emails. Law has image enhancement capabilities (such as straightening a crooked scan, removing scatter from a scan, etc.) along with the ability to match existing bates numbers or create bates numbers and burn them to document images.
Law then uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to convert the documents into searchable text, which vastly decreases the time spent searching for specific documents or subject references in boxes of documents.
When Law has finished the above processes, it creates a computer file containing both the documents and all of the enhancements which can be loaded into Lommen Abdo's standard service programs, Summation and Trial Director, as well as into programs used by other firms such as Concordance, Sanction, etc.
Summation
Summation is a database program specially designed to provide integrated litigation support. Summation provides a single location for organizing a wide variety of case information including deposition transcripts and exhibits and physical documents produced in discovery, as well as documents produced electronically - including e-mail.
Summation's Case Explorer provides document and deposition search and retrieval, allows for the creation and editing of summaries (you can type your notes right into the database rather than on post-it notes or yellow pads and these notes will always remain linked with a certain document), allows the marking and highlighting of important documents, links witnesses to specific documents, and can even create trial witness lists and exhibit lists.
Electronic Litigator will customize your Summation database to meet the needs of your particular case. For example, we can track which experts have received which documents and add an issue field that will note if the document relates to calibration, misuse, etc.
AL Coder
This software reads the Law enhanced OCR base of a document, pulls relevant information from that OCR base and populates specified fields in the discovery software database such as Summation. AL Coder has increased recognition thresholds for letters, memoranda and emails. By using AL Coder, manual coding time will be reduced significantly.
WebBlaze
WebBlaze is a program that runs within Microsoft Internet Explorer. Once logged on, WebBlaze allows designated clients and associated counsel of our choosing to remotely access an Electronic Litigator Summation case. Those allowed access are given a specific login and password, enabling them to securely review their case database at any time, from any place with access to the internet. This service is hosted by Electronic Litigator.
Trial Director
Trial Director is a trial presentation program, run on a laptop in the courtroom. It can display exhibits, photographs and video clips on either computer monitors set up for the court and jury, or project these images on a video screen. Portions of exhibits can be highlighted in real-time before the jury and witnesses. Trial Director can also zoom in on portions of an exhibit, display exhibits with confidential or irrelevant sections redacted or display only a specific part of an exhibit, such as the most important paragraph of a document. Trial Director can even synch a video deposition with the deposition transcript, and display both simultaneously - making it easy for a jury to follow even the most complex testimony. Trial Director is a solid presentation that can improve your outcome in trial.
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