Excel as an Organizational and Litigation Tool

Excel as an Organizational & Litigation Tool AOKI LAW PLLC Russell M. Aoki, Leslie Miller, Isham Reavis & Kate Snow DEFENDER SERVICES OFFICE TRAINING DIVISION Sean Broderick National Litigation Support AdministratorExcel as an Organizational & Litigation Tool i Contents Introduction .. 1 Figure 0-1: Example Spreadsheet Tabs .. 1 Discovery Log .. 2 Figure 1-1: Example Government Discovery Index .. 2 Figure 1-2: Example Discovery Log .. 3 Figure 1-3: Government Discovery Index Viewed in Adobe Reader .. 3 Figure 1-4a: Selecting and Copying Text from the Index .. 4 Figure 1-4b Right-Click Dialogue Box .. 4 Figure 1-5: Selecting Destination Cell in Discovery Log.

If you have searchable PDFs of the government’s indices, you may be able to copy and paste the information into the discovery spreadsheet. When using the copy-and-paste-function, you may find differences in the quality of text copied from a computer-generated document compared with scanned paper that was made searchable with

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