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{{Short description|Creating keywords to index legal documents}}

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'''Legal coding''' is the process of creating summary or keyword data from a document. It is widely used in the legal profession to create a fast-search index or database of documents for use in [[litigation]].

'''Legal coding''' is the process of creating summary or [[Index term|keyword]] data from a document. It is widely used in the [[legal profession]] to create a fast-search index or [[database]] of documents for use in [[litigation]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Godfrey |first1=Nicholas |last2=Burdon |first2=Mark |date=February 2024 |title=Fidelity in legal coding: applying legal translation frameworks to address interpretive challenges |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600834.2024.2312620 |journal=[[Information & Communications Technology Law]] |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=153-176 |doi=10.1080/13600834.2024.2312620 |access-date=February 16, 2025|doi-access=free }}</ref>

==What is Litigation?==

Litigation in short can be mentioned as Legal Transcription. The Purpose of Litigation

to index the Database in accordance with the Instructions specified by the Client.

Objective Coding Definitions

==Work Flow:==

* The recording of basic data such as date, author, or document type, from documents into a database.

Scanned Images

* Extracting information from electronic documents such as date created, author recipient, CC and linking each image to the information in pre-defined objective fields. In direct opposition to Subjective Coding where legal interpretations of data in a document are linked to individual documents. Also called bibliographic coding.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

* Extracting such information from a document as its author, its mailing date, etc. Objective coding is usually done from the document text or image, because the [[metadata]] may be inaccurate. For example, a document written and signed by a partner might show the administrative assistant as the author in the metadata, because it was originally typed on the assistant's computer.

LDD (Logical Document Determination)

Coding

QC (Quality Check)

Audit

FDC (Final Data Certification)

Shipment

==Objective coding==

Objective coding is creating an index of [[Objectivity (philosophy)|objective]] summary data from a document, and (if discoverable), would include such information as dates, author, recipient and title.

==Subjective coding==

Subjective coding is the indexing of documents aroundaccording to [[subjectivity|subjective]] data. This may be gleaned from templates, or more usually from a subjective reading by someone familiar with the topic. This is the more realiablereliable way to determine factors such as 'importance' of the document.

==External links==

*http://www.allzonems.com/litigation-outsource.htm

*http://www.cenzatech.com/legal.html

*http://www.integra-india.com/litigation_services.htm

*http://www.intercomindia.com/legal_coding/objective_coding.html

*http://www.intercomindia.com/legal_coding/subjective_coding.html

*http://www.cchworkflow.com.au/processing_services_coding.html

==References==

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