One of the nifty and powerful tools in our litigation support tool belt is “regular expressions.” We use regular expressions to match patterns of data that we need to search for and then perhaps manipulate in some way. A few examples of easy-to-recognize “data patterns” are social security numbers (999-99-9999) and phone numbers (999-999-9999). Both values…
A while back I wrote an article entitled A Text File Disguised as a Load File. It is the most read article on this site. Why? Because as the article states, there are many overlapping meanings for the same term and it can be tricky for a newbie to learn all of the terminology we use…
Concatenate is one of many fancy words we learn while working in litigation support. It is a technical term and it is a verb defined as “to link (things) together in a chain or series.” Most of the time we are using concatenation to piece together multiple values. We also have the ability to insert additional values…
I believe that the best way to learn litigation support is by working through real-life, on-the-job scenarios. This article is about a scenario that landed on my plate a few years ago. In a previous article, I talked about the importance of creating cheat sheets in litigation support. After I figured out a solution to…
People that transition from IT to litigation support have an interesting advantage. I have noticed it time and time again. Much of the technical work we perform in litigation support can be repetitive, step by step, “just get it done” tasks. However, some technical work can be trial and error. Some examples would be: 1….
Regardless of the database software you are using, there are some standard data types. There may be a slight variation in the actual name of the data type and there might be a slight difference in the specifications for the data type depending on the database software, but for the most part we expect to…
One of the trickiest things for a newbie in litigation support to learn is the terminology we use when discussing load files. There are many overlapping meanings and it can be quite confusing until the day it “just clicks”. Like many learning curves, the big picture can be difficult to grasp when we are focused…
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