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his article is meant to present
some basic tools anyone
starting out in Litigation
Support should be aware of
and become proficient with.
The information below is by no means meant to
be a complete user guide for these tools but rather
provide some basic commonly used features of
these tools.
So, You're New to
Litigation Support…
The Beginner's Tool Kit
by Elaine Gayda, Kathy Dallaire, Cheryl Curran,
and special thanks to Shannon Bales
"There has got to be a better way!" is a
thought I had almost daily when I first
started out in Litigation Support. The first
secret that anyone in Litigation Support
will tell you is "Yes, there is a better way!"
On my first day in a litigation support role,
my manager handed me a USB key that she
called my "toolkit". It contained various
portable executable files for different
programs. At the time, they were foreign
to me. Now? They have changed my life.
There really was a better way.
- Elaine Gayda,
Case Manager, Discovery Services BLG
