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| What tense should you use for time entry |
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Always present tesne so say telephone cal w/ examiner
Confer w/ examiner
Make binders
create index, etc. |
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| Should you have punctatuion in a time entry? |
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| Yes, you must always have a period at the end of the entry |
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| How must names be in time entry |
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| Shouldalywas have in the format T. Lee (ist initial, period, space and then last name) |
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| Do all clients have the same billing guidelines |
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| different billing guidelines for different clients |
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| what is block billing? Is it always allowed? |
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Blocked billing is sometimes allowed and sometimes not.
So if I say I wokred for 6 hours for a client I could create one entry and list all the stuff that I did if I'm allowed to block bill. If not, I have to list each task separately as a separate entry.
Sometimes in a block billing entry, you will have to itimeize the time
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| What are the increments that items are bill in? |
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| Usually in 1/10ths or 1/4th of an hour. |
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| Do you have to have a minimum number of hours for time entry? |
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| Yes, you have to put in a minimum number of hours per week and a minimum amount of time per day. |
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When does time entry have to be done by?
How is it given to accounting? |
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| Time entry is due in the system by a certain time and then must be submitted and finalized. IF you notice that there is a problem right away, then you can recall it but this is only about a 10 minute time frame. |
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| Is everything in your time entry billable? |
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| No, there is a special number to account for non-billable time |
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| What is the first column in a privlege log containt? |
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| It containes the doc number (i.e. it's number in the database. Because it's not produced, there is no privliege log) |
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| Waht is the second column? |
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| The second is the attachement from the e-mail that is claiming privliege (a decirption of them) |
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| Should you have a date of when the privileged doc was created? |
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| Yes, you should always have a date. If you don't know the date, use the term "undated" |
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| Can you exclude metadata from the privlidge log when sending it? |
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| Yes, you can export out the metadate |
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What kinds of colums should you have regarding between whom the communication was made?
What if it wasn't an e-mail, lttr, etc. example? |
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Should always have a to, from,, cc, and soemtimes bbc
If you have something like meeting minutes that aren't necessarily correspondence, who the minutes were from |
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This isu sually the subject line of an e-mail but if the subject line was too vague this cna be edited.
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| Should you include the document type in your priv log? |
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| Yes, you should always have the document type (i.e. e-mail, e-mail with attachment, e-doc, e-mail chain; hard copy) |
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Should you invlude the type of priv asserted as part of your priv log?
What is the term for this?
Should you also include the claim basis? |
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Definition
Yes, always put whether it was atty work product or atty/clt.
This is priv assertion
Yes, you shoudl then also put the claim basis (i.e. communication w/patty, doc discussing convo with clitent, etc. |
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| What does the DoJ sometimes insist you should do in a priv log? |
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| Sometimes they insist that you i.d every att in the privl og. this can be done by either using attys intitails and sending a list of attys |
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| The three kinds of trasncripts |
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1) made by west called WEST E-TRANSCRIPT VIEW (it's free and will show transcripts in in .ptx file extension. lost of times it will be
2) Concordance- can go to concordance and create a new database for each new type of trasncript
3) Live note |
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| made by west called WEST E-TRANSCRIPT VIEW (it's free and will show transcripts in in .ptx file extension. lost of times it will be |
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| Concordance and trasncripts |
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Definition
transcipts are sent in ascci or amicu format. You should be able to see the page breaks and the software lets you add issues and perform a full query text.
So if you typ in O.J. simpson, it will display the number of hits in each transcripts. |
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Does concordance let you add issues to transcripts?
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| Yes, yo u can add issues to transcripts |
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| How many lines per page are in a transcript? |
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| 25 lines per page are in a transcript. AFter you hit 25 lines a new page starts. Concordance will show you were the breaks are |
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| Live note lest you see transcripts in real time. Basically you take your laptop, hook it up to the ct. reporters machine and as they type, the words appear on the screen. |
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| In live note, can you make marks of the transcript as it's appearing? |
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| Yes, you can add a quick mark to make an indication of soemthng that should be brought back up later. Thiscan be done by hitting the space bar and can you short key cuts |
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| What are usually the parts of a transcript in live note? |
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1) name of deponent
2) date
3) volume * (represents the # of days of testimony that the deponent took palce on. you should use humans) |
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