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Electronic Document Coding Comes of Age

By Richard E. Davis
July 30, 2004

For years, attorneys have relied on manual coding or indexing to help them search and categorize sometimes-vast collections of paper documents related to litigation.

In litigation, mergers and acquisitions, and compliance scenarios, document coding is one of the best ways of creating a database that will help a legal team determine document responsiveness, privilege level or both relatively rapidly.

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