I can’t find an email from last week. How does a special council ingest, sort millions of documents from hundreds of disparate sources and then find it later? Then how do they present it to make a simple story? Especially if it’s millions of documents they have to keep track of.
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I think that depends on juridiction, but here I know all the papers the police makes (and gives to lawyers) are numbered, and in large cases they make an index. Something like:
doc 01 emergency call
doc 02 first interview with accused (as a witness)
doc 02.01 second interview with accused
doc 03 bank statement
…
In simmilar cases the structure is the same.
Legal assistants literally go to school to learn how to keep evidence organized and easily accessible for the paralegals and lawyers they work with. It’s a big part of their job.
For finding the needle in a haystack, I use DTSearch Desktop (https://www.dtsearch.com/). It is a steal at $249. You can index on a case by case basis, and simply check the case you want to search when you are looking for a particular document. You can also index your email, and it is easy to update index to include new materials. Boolean/stemming/phonic/fuzzy/synonym searches are possible.
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