Subjective coding

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• Entering information from a document that requires the coder to exercise judgment, such as subject or issue codes. This field is often left blank for the law firm’s paralegals or associates to fill in.^[1]

• The coding of a document using legal interpretation as the data that fills a field. Performed by paralegals or other trained legal personnel.^[2]

• Categorizing documents by their responsiveness to specific case issues or topics.

See also

• Bibliographic coding
• Coding
• Issue code
• Issue coding
• Level coding
• Objective coding
• Subjective coding
• Taxonomic coding
• Verbatim coding

Footnotes

1. ^  Legal Electronic Document Institute, Basic Principles of Automated Litigation Support (2005).
2. ^  American Document Management, Glossary of Terms, http://www.amdoc.com/glossary.shtml.