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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>

==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.

Objective Coding Definitions

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

* 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.

* 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.

==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 linksReferences==

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*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

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