Legal coding

<p>Legal coding is the process of creating summary or <a href="/facts/Index_term/fRqKUggI">keyword</a> data from a document. It is widely used in the <a href="/facts/Legal_profession/SETgVQHu">legal profession</a> to create a fast-search index or <a href="/facts/Database/VYcpkevb">database</a> of documents for use in <a href="/facts/Litigation/gFeKr9ra">litigation</a>.
</p><p>Objective Coding Definitions
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<ul><li>The recording of basic data such as date, author, or document type, from documents into a database.</li>
<li>Extracting information from electronic documents such as date created, author recipient, CC and linking each image to the information in pre-defined objective fields. In direct opposition to Subjective Coding where legal interpretations of data in a document are linked to individual documents. Also called bibliographic coding.</li>
<li>Extracting such information from a document as its author, its mailing date, etc. Objective coding is usually done from the document text or image, because the <a href="/facts/Metadata/qt35z79C">metadata</a> may be inaccurate. For example, a document written and signed by a partner might show the administrative assistant as the author in the metadata, because it was originally typed on the assistant's computer.</li></ul>

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Legal coding