Lexis LAW PreDiscovery - Grid Displays

Lexis LAW contains some useful features for manipulating data displayed in the grid view of query results. Note that different options are displayed in the standalone grid that are not available in the embedded grid for query results. If you filter down the results to certain selected values you can get a quick count of the total number of documents and pages in the selection by going to View . . . Doc/Page Totals.

To export a list of text files generated by the system for the purposes of transferring the data to another system, go to Tools . . . Build Control List. A text file will be created with the Beg Bates number (or if that has not been entered, the Doc ID number) and a path to existing location of the text file, or a new location that you choose to copy the text files to.

Note that by default Lexis limits the number of text files that can be exported at one time to a 1000. You can change this setting by editing the 'law50.ini' at the root of the program folder. You either enter or change the value, "ControlListFileLimit=1000" in the Summation section.

LAW is also capable of exporting email messages to an Outlook .pst folder. It will export messages and their attachments that originated in such an archive, or loose .msg or .eml files. However LAW will not able to export messages for the purpose of exporting to .pst archive that have been moved since they were imported into LAW.

RadiAnt

If you're working on a case involving medical records, and you want to view CT scans (or X-ray computed tomography scans) and you're running Windows. consider downloading and installing RadiAnt DICOM viewer. See this site where a freeware version is available.

My own experience indicates that people in the medical profession may be more likely to use Apple computers, and consequently use the OsiriX viwer for Cat scans. Often medical professionals that do CT scanning will transfer the imaging data on discs - rather than transferring it across networks In cases where such images are relevant be sure to try to collect such electronic media.

Some of the applications to review these images, including RadiAnt will have an option to view the data anonymously. In RadiAnt to remove displayed personal metadata you just need to press SHFT + F12, for click on the 'A' from the toolbar and choose 'Hide Patient Data'.

My own experience with an otolaryngologist indicates that the key to using such software is to adjust the Cine (or Space) setting in RadiAnt which in essence takes you through different cross sections of your body. This is activating by clicking on the video camera icon on the toolbar.

LAW - working with Images and Native Files

LAW includes an option in the Edit menu to split documents not only by bar code slip sheets, but also by blank pages.

The blank page option can be configured to detect either entirely clean white pages, pages with a little or a lot of speckles, or pages with a single line of text.

In the Tools menu, the 'Extract ED Page Counts' will not necessarily give you a correct page count of each native file. The guide to LAW notes that some source applications can't provide a page count without sending the file to a printer.

LAW does not provide an option to transfer the time zones of native files when they are written to PDF or TIFF images. The guide suggests resetting the time zone of the operating system to that of the native files if you want the values of the images to be the same.