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Practice Tip <B>High-Tech Head Starts on Big Cases: Using Advanced Database Tools</b>

High-tech tools ' such as auto-coding, linguistic pattern matching and Web-based collaboration ' enable lawyers and their fact experts to take charge of large cases right from the opening days of discovery. Construction disputes are among the document-intensive cases where these new tools are being used to change the dynamics of the dispute-resolution process. As a specialist in providing expert testimony in these disputes, I've learned that these new tools permit quick and cost-effective ways to learn and research the facts of a case from among the hundreds of boxes of documents.

15 minute read February 27, 2004 at 01:06 PM
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Richard J. Long
Practice Tip <B>High-Tech Head Starts on Big Cases: Using Advanced Database Tools</b>

High-tech tools ' such as auto-coding, linguistic pattern matching and Web-based collaboration ' enable lawyers and their fact experts to take charge of large cases right from the opening days of discovery.

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