The Problem with Annotating Documents in Acrobat

While Acrobat offers a variety of annotation tools, document coding with native annotation poses a variety of problems in the litigation environment that i-View seeks to address.  The issues include:

 

  • Multi User Limits
  • Work Product Disclosure
  • Annotation Management

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Dealing with Imaging Studies and other critical information produced on CDs

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 files that can’t be imaged: Part 2

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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