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Guide to IPRO Eclipse Publish Case: Customizing Your Workspace

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By Luzevelia Morales

If discovery is produced to you as an IPRO Eclipse SE Publish Case (IPRO Publish Case) and clicking around it feels like this photo below, what can you do?

First, you will know you have an IPRO Publish case because your discovery will look like this:

If Eclipse is new to you or otherwise unfamiliar, trying to use the program can be *extremely* frustrating. If you would like one-on-one training to learn how to work with an IPRO Publish case, contact Kelly_scribner@fd.org to schedule an online video conference. In a one-on-one training session NLST can meet with you virtually, see your screen, and show you how to use the IPRO Publish case viewer to review your discovery production. This blog post is the first of a series meant to help you get started on your IPRO Publish Case. It will introduce IPRO Publish, explain the basic formatting of the program, and how to customize your workspace to make it more user-friendly. Future posts will cover how to search, tag, and export.

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Lab Notes: Audio Transcription Tools

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By Nakiyyah Adams

How do you review hundreds of jail calls? What about 3 months of 24-hour video surveillance on a house? Twenty bodycameras covering  1-2 hours each of a multi-jurisdictional car chase and stop?

Audio transcription tools are one potential answer. These tools can analyze audio and video files and create text searchable transcripts. You can imagine the huge time-saving benefit here—instead of trying to watch or listen to hours and hours of recordings, only some of which might be relevant, a text searchable transcript could be searched using keywords, or even just read quickly in less time than experiencing the recording in real-time.

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eDiscovery Review platforms (Eclipse, Casepoint, Everlaw): What are they, and why should I consider using one?

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By Alicia Penn, Luzevelia Morales and Tisha Davis

When the government produces discovery to defense teams, it is not always in a user-friendly way. Sometimes the problem is volume—there are so many separate files that it would take decades to lay eyes on all of them. The problem could be organization (or, rather, the apparent lack of it)—the folder structure is cumbersome and/or illogical. Naming convention can be a non-starter—there is an index, but the filenames give you no clue about the file contents.

One answer is to use a review platform. A review platform is software that allows you to view a variety of document types in a single place without having to go through nested folders. Other review platform functions include the ability to tag documents, run text-based searches, create notes, and organize documents. Review platforms are particularly helpful in email-heavy cases because they show the path of an email and any attachments. They also can facilitate collaboration.

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U.S. v. Morgan, et al: Know What You Don’t Have

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[Editor’s Note: Tom O’Connor is an attorney, educator, and well respected e-discovery and legal technology thought leader. A frequent lecturer on the subject of legal technology, Tom has been on the faculty of numerous national CLE providers and has taught college level courses on legal technology. He has also written three books on legal technology and worked as a consultant or expert on computer forensics and electronic discovery in some of the most challenging, front page cases in the U.S. Tom is the Director of the Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center in New Orleans, LA ]

If you were practicing in federal court before email, ECF filing, and in the days when Joe Montana threw to Jerry Rice then you probably remember discovery productions were typically hardcopy documents you picked up at the US Attorney’s Office. The volume was so small it easily fit into your briefcase. Those were the days when everyone complained about not getting enough discovery. The challenge was moving to compel for more discovery when you didn’t know what you didn’t have.

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So you think you don’t need tech?

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Editor’s Note: Penny Marshall is currently in private practice, focusing on Law and Technology.  Previously she was the Federal Defender for the Federal Public Defender Office for the District of Delaware.  Her practice has also included the federal and local level in the District of Columbia and a year and a half stint in the state of Georgia.  She has served as President of the Association of Federal Defenders and Chair of the Third Circuit Lawyers Advisory Committee.  In addition, she is an adjunct faculty member at Widener Law School and has served as guest faculty at both Harvard Law School and Benjamin Cardoza School of Law. 

Imagine that the government has provided you with 50 DVD’s, a stack of paper amounting to more than a 100,000 documents, an ample number of CD’s and a list several hundred witnesses.  If you instinctively start to prepare by hiring enough paralegals to print out all of documents on the DVD’s, put them all in manila folders, and then hope that you or your smart energetic personnel will remember, in the middle of cross-examination, exactly where a particular impeaching statement is located, then this blog is certainly for you.

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