Last summer I wrote about my month with a litigation support newbie. It was my first time hosting a student intern from the paralegal studies program at Georgetown University. You can read that article here. Over the last year, Elizabeth completed her Project Management Masters program in Boston and then she took and passed the PMP…
Two years ago, on September 12, LitigationSupportGuru.com went live. It was also my birthday. I’ll never forget how excited I was. I would like to thank all of the people who have spread the word about Litigation Support Guru to friends, colleagues and newbies. I also want to thank those that left comments over the…
A career in litigation support encompasses multiple careers. This series of articles will describe how each plays a part in litigation support. Overall, litigation support can be described as: We assist litigators. We speak and translate geek. We work with litigation discovery, primarily in electronic format. One of the careers within litigation support is Trial Presentation….
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A career in litigation support encompasses multiple careers. This series of articles will describe how each plays a part in litigation support. Overall, litigation support can be described as: We assist litigators. We speak and translate geek. We work with litigation discovery, primarily in electronic format. One of the careers within litigation support is a Trainer….
A career in litigation support encompasses multiple careers. This series of articles will describe how each plays a part in litigation support. Overall, litigation support can be described as: We assist litigators. We speak and translate geek. We work with litigation discovery, primarily in electronic format. Two careers within litigation support are Marketing and Speaking. The…
I am very excited to share with you that I have created a brand new podcast for the Litigation Support Guru community. I have been working on it for months and I am launching with several podcast episodes already recorded. Podcasting has a pretty steep learning curve. Who would have thought I would be learning…
A career in litigation support encompasses multiple careers. This series of articles will describe how each plays a part in litigation support. Overall, litigation support can be described as: We assist litigators. We speak and translate geek. We work with litigation discovery, primarily in electronic format. One of the careers within litigation support is Vendor Management….
A career in litigation support encompasses multiple careers. This series of articles will describe how each plays a part in litigation support. Overall, litigation support can be described as: We assist litigators. We speak and translate geek. We work with litigation discovery, primarily in electronic format. One of the careers within litigation support is Help…
Last Friday I could just barely get through the work day. I was so excited. I was beaming all day. A few weeks earlier, I had arranged to have dinner with six of the graduates from Georgetown University’s eDiscovery/Advanced Litigation Technology/Legal Project Management program. David Carns and Kelly Holdcraft started the program in the 2011 Summer…
A career in litigation support encompasses multiple careers. This series of articles will describe how each plays a part in litigation support. Overall, litigation support can be described as: We assist litigators. We speak and translate geek. We work with litigation discovery, primarily in electronic format. One of the careers within litigation support is a…
There are some people in this industry that I followed when I was a newbie. Jane Gennarelli is one of them. I found Jane when she authored a product called Litigation Best Practices in a Box. Jane is well respected in our industry and she participated in a case study on this site a while…
A career in litigation support encompasses multiple careers. This series of articles will describe how each plays a part in litigation support. Overall, litigation support can be described as: We assist litigators. We speak and translate geek. We work with litigation discovery, primarily in electronic format. One of the careers within litigation support is a…
In an eDiscovery litigation matter, there are instances where data is delivered to a litigation support professional on an internal hard drive. An internal hard drive is one that usually resides inside of a desktop computer or laptop and it connects to the computer via a SATA or IDE connection. This is not the same…
A few weeks ago I was reading Jason Velasco’s blog post about eDiscovery Journal’s new boot camps. I could hear his enthusiasm through his words and I appreciated that he gave kudos to the team he works with. When I read Jason’s sentence about people in our industry asking for something different in an educational…
A career in litigation support encompasses multiple careers. This series of articles will describe how each plays a part in litigation support. Overall, litigation support can be described as: We assist litigators. We speak and translate geek. We work with litigation discovery, primarily in electronic format. One of the careers within litigation support is a…
Name: Sonya Harris Location: Washington DC Metro Area What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? I was an Application Specialist in information technology, after a long stretch of 1st, 2nd and 3rd level technical support in law firms. How did you get the opportunity to join the litigation support community? A…
For those of you still searching for that litigation support newbie opportunity, this is for you! I would like to introduce you to two newbies. Both Darrin and Heather experienced the criteria below and were successful in joining the litigation support industry. I am so proud of both of them and I want to share…
In Litigation Support, we work with database load files almost every day. The various types of text-based load files contain information about documents or file paths and file names that will link database records to corresponding images of the document. The legal team uses the databases to review documents and categorize them during the discovery…
We have established in previous conversations that the litigation support field can be demanding on our time and our stress level. I recently had a really bad week where I struggled to stay positive. My personal life, my day job and my passions all collided in negative ways. I am sharing my story because I know…
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