E-Discovery terms starting with L

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'Legal Document Repository' or 'Litigation Document Repository' An electronic system for data retrieval of documents in connection with litigation. Features may include external hosting, search, retrieval and security.
LAN (Local Area Network) A network of computers that generally spans a small area, such as a single building.
Landscape Mode The image is represented on the page or monitor such that the width is greater than the height.
Laser Disc Same as an optical CD, except 12 in diameter.
Laser Printing A beam of light hits an electrically charged drum and causes a discharge at that point. Toner is then applied which sticks to the non-charged areas.
Latency The time it takes to read a disc (or jukebox), including the time to physically position the media under the read/write head, seek the correct address and…
Latent Data Latent or ambient data are deleted files and other data that are inaccessible without specialized forensic tools and techniques.
Leading/Ledding The amount of space between lines of printed text.
Legacy Custodian Former employees, participants and Individual Custodians who are no longer with the company.
Legacy Data Information in the development process that may have significant resources invested into it that has been produced and/or stored on software and/or…
Legacy System Generated Custodian ESI generated from a legacy enterprise application such as financial systems, dynamic monitoring systems and more may not have a clear Custodian.
Legal Document Management To capture and manage of legal documents within a law firm or other organization.
Legal Hold A legal hold is a communication issued as a result of current or anticipated litigation, audit, government investigation or other such matter that…
Legal Hold Auditing In matters of high risk or complexity, the corporation may conduct an internal or external audit of the scope and compliance with the legal hold.
Legal Hold Development Developing the preservation scope, description and criteria is based in the work done in the Identification phase interpreted in light of the opposing…
Legal Hold Enforcing Legal Holds may be in place for years and a source may be under multiple holds.
Legal Hold Issuance Issuing hold notices to custodians and systems.
Legal Hold Tracking Legal Hold tracking may be done on simple documents (Word/Excel) or in a dedicated application to record notices and actions of the Legal Hold.
Legal Software Software which helps lawyers to organize and index case files, helps to arrange/schedule docket numbers or catalogue court dates, or assists in the…
Level Coding Used in Bibliographical coding to facilitate different treatment, such as prioritization or more thorough extraction of data, for different categories of…
Lexbe Web-based case and document management service. Features include searchable PDF-based document review, automatic OCR, hosted online access, shared…
LFP IPRO Techs image cross reference file; an ASCII delimited text file required for cross-reference of images to data.
Lifecycle The records lifecycle is the life span of a record from its creation or receipt to its final disposition.
Line Screen The number of half-tone dots that can be printed per inch. As a general rule, newspapers print at 65 to 85 lpi.
link See Hyperlink.
Litigation Case Management Method of controlling and managing cases within the litigation process, usually with the aid of specially designed case management software to help work…
Litigation Lifecycle The litigation lifecycle is the processes and practices commonly used to define a legal event.
Litigation Lifecycle Management The policies, processes, practices and tools used to handle a case in the through the litigation lifecycle in the most appropriate and cost effective…
Litigation Software Software to help lawyers prepare and present cases in court. Features include indexing and organizing documents, database, hierarchical folders, and…
Litigation Support Manager Person within a law firm who administers automated litigation support.
Litigation Support Services All activities designed to prepare a lawyer to try a case, including interviewing witnesses, document review, and case preparation.
Litigation Support Software and Systems Software and systems to assist lawyers in preparing and presenting cases for trial.
Litigation Support Specialist An individual who manages the litigation support services within a law firm. Litigation support specialist duties combine aspects of the paralegal and…
LiveNote Transcript and deposition management software, with features including transcript text searches, transcript annotation, exhibit hyper linking and network…
Load file A file that relates to a set of scanned images and indicates where individual pages belong together as documents.
Local area network LAN. Usually refers to a network of computers in a single building or other discrete location.
Logfile The Microsoft Windows NT Logfile, officially designated as $Logfile, is a special system file used by Microsoft Windows NT to keep track of what it is…
Logical Document Determination or LDD A process of document grouping or separation used in some e-Discovery litigation support processes.
Logical File Space The actual amount of space occupied by a file on a hard drive. The amount of logical file space differs from the physical file space because when a file…
Logical Volume An area on the hard drive that has been formatted for files storage. A hard drive may contain a single or multiple volumes.
lossless compression Exact construction of image, bit-by-bit, with no loss of information.
lossy compression Reduces storage size of image by reducing the resolution and color fidelity while maintaining minimum acceptable standard for general use.
LTO (Linear Tape-Open) A type of backup tape which can hold as much as 400 GB of data, or 600 CDs depending on the data file format.
LZW (Lempel-Ziv & Welch) A common, lossless compression standard for computer graphics, used for most TIFF files. Typical compression ratios are 4/1.