All databases are useful only when it can be easily accessed for data whenever required. Only when information is well organized can it be referred to as data. One can divide legal coding into two basic categories, i.e., subjective coding and objective coding.

While objective coding refers to coding using index topics like dates, author and title in a database, subjective coding refers to indexing of document around a subject. The coder makes a summary of the document (like write-ups) and that helps while searching for the document in any huge database.

Outsourcings of all types of legal processes are being outsourced these days especially to offshore locations like India. What are the immediate and long term benefits in outsourcing of the legal services? There are many benefits in outsourcing of legal coding of legal documents especially for the law offices and those doing legal research, e-discovery and attorneys preparing for litigation. Everyone is aware of the long time it takes in searching for documents doing legal research and getting to the right citations during preparation for litigation. Some of the benefits include,

• Saving in time
• Professional service
• High accuracy levels
• Low cost/ huge saving
• Coded data is exportable to Summation / Concordance
• Low turnaround time (TAT)
  

Managed Outsource Solutions is an Oklahoma, US based company that offers high quality yet affordable legal coding services besides other services like legal transcription, legal research, legal animation, legal website designing and litigation support to clients in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.

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In the US wiretapping or telephone tapping refers to the monitoring of the telephone or the Internet by a third party usually in a hidden way. The United States Foreign Intelligence Court of Review can authorize any federal agents to wiretap the telephone and Internet for use as evidence in court (better known as lawful interception) which is usually approved only when other ways of detecting criminal activity is not possible. The wiretapped recorded conversation on the phone is often transcribed (converted into text form) by a professional transcriptionist and the typed transcripts later becomes a legally authorized documents that can be produced in court during litigation and trial. It is believed that it was wiretapping and intercepting of phone calls to his second wife in Beirut that led to locating the hideout and arrest of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Wiretap on a computer network was first ordered in 1996 when a hacker tried to enter the Harvard University and US military websites and computers. Recently there was a controversy after the Bush administration authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to used legalized but warrant-less surveillance of suspected international Al Qaida terrorists within and outside the US. Even though wiretap as evidence has been used in the US since many years, in the UK the government has only recently started considering the introduction of wiretap as court evidence after its latest review of antiterrorism legislation.

Besides wiretap transcription there are many other types of specialized legal transcription services that are offered by professional legal transcription companies like,

• Court proceedings transcription
• Verbatim transcription
• Testimony transcription
• Trial transcription
• Legal letter transcription
• General correspondence transcription

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based legal outsourcing company that offers a wide range of legal services including legal transcription, legal coding, legal research, litigation support, law firm web design and legal animation to its clients in the US, Canada the UK and Australia.

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