If your firm bills time in tenths of an hour and you work on a project for 45 minutes, you should mark your time on your timeslip as this.
What is .8 (eight-tenths of an hour)?
100
A user can alter this in a document by simply opening it or copying the documents.
What is metadata?
100
Oral testimony taken before a court reporter who transcribes the testimony word for word.
What is a deposition?
100
A document filed with the CM/ECF system must generally be submitted in this format.
What is a PDF?
100
This contains legal postings that resemble a diary or journal entry and is typically arranged in reverse chronological order.
What is a blawg (or blog)?
200
This type of fee is billed as a percentage of the total amount awarded to the client.
What is a contingency fee?
200
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure state that this must be discussed between the parties as soon as practicable.
What is ESI?
200
This key feature of this type of litigation support system is the ability to scam and store documents.
What is imaging?
200
This can be used to add special formatting to text in PowerPoint presentations.
What is Word Art?
200
Most search engines use this computerized method, named after this arthropod, to search the Web to compile their databases.
What are spiders?
300
A rough draft version of an invoice is called this.
What is a pre-billing report?
300
This is designed to prevent the destruction of evidence, including ESI and metadata, during litigation.
What is a litigation hold?
300
This type of search looks for words in the same vicinity of each other.
What is a proximity search?
300
The master controls for an evidence display system is located here.
Where is at the judge's bench?
300
The e-mail software used by most law firms.
What is Microsoft Outlook?
400
If a partner in a law firm wanted to see which paralegal was billing the most hours, she would check this report.
What is the timekeeper productivity report?
400
This provision provides a process for a producing party to recover information that was inadvertently produced when it was in fact privileged.
What is a clawback provision?
400
Refers to a series of written questions directed to an opposing party in a lawsuit.
What are interrogatories?
400
This TrialDirector feature allows the used to show part of a video deposition with the text of the deposition simultaneously scrolling on the screen.
What is the Transcript Manager?
400
This feature of the Google search engine allows users to search state and federal case law for free.
What is Google Scholar?
500
A case retainer is considered this type of retainer.
What is an earned retainer?
500
A provision that covers inadvertent routine deletion of ESI, such as e-mails, to create additional space.
What is a safe harbor provision?
500
The key feature of this type of litigation support system is the ability to enter summaries of documents.
What is a document abstract?
500
The overhead projector that is included in mosty evidence display systems and that uses a camera to display hard-copy documents that have not been imaged is called this.
What is a document camera?
500
An electronic mailing list that enables people on the list to send and receive messages to and from everyone on the list via email.