Author: Jay LaVigne

If your practice involves any form of personal injury claims you are familiar with getting imaging studies on CD.  While the studies can be powerful evidence, dealing with multiple CDs can be an enormous headache and more and more notebook PCs don’t have CD readers so it can be impossible to review them.   In a previous post, we discussed scanning the CD itself and ensuring that it is bates numbered.  The next step would be finding a way to store and review the CD contents on a hard drive.  “Dealing with Imaging Studies and other critical information produced on CDs”

Dealing with production electronically is a dramatic improvement over the days of boxes of paper, Post-Its and highlighters, but it is not without its challenges.  Many files do not easily lend themselves to printing (spreadsheets, databases and accounting systems) or can’t be reduced to PDF at all (WMV, MOV, Wav, MP3, etc. – these can be reduced to a transcript but that can be expensive and time consuming – so knowing if these are important enough records to transcribe is handy).  In the flood of documents, it is very easy to forget that these files exist and to ensure that they are reviewed.

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One of the challenges of preparing documents for production and review is dealing with PC files that are not easily imageable or imageable at all.  Excel files are a common example of PC Files that are produced in native format rather being reduced to a PDF or image file (printing these automatically can result in 1000 page PDFs that are completely useless).  In addition, other file formats such as WAV, WMV, MP3 and MP4 can also contain valuable information so need to be produced. (One other format that i-Legal encounters regularly are CD based imaging disks from hospitals and other providers of imaging services – we will discuss that in the next blog).

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