A) Answer – A written pleading filed by a defendant to respond to a complaint in a lawsuit, filed and served upon that defendant. An answer generally contests and responds to each allegation in the complaint by denying or admitting it, or admitting in part and denying in part.

B) Appeal to New York Appellate Division – Appeals are taken to the Appellate Division, as a matter of right or as of leave, in civil and criminal cases, from a New York Supreme Court, Surrogate’s Court, Family Court and Court of Claims. The Appellate Division has broad powers to review questions of law and fact, and to make new findings of fact by applying the law.

C) Motion to Dismiss –  A Motion to Dismiss is a party’s request to a court to dismiss a complaint, majorly because of plaintiff’s failure to properly state a cause of action on which relief can be granted.

D) Motion for Summary Judgement – A party files a Motion for Summary Judgement to request a court to rule that the other party has no case, because there are no facts at issue and the relief/s in a complaint need/s to be granted in favour of the movant.

E) Motion to Intervene – A non-party in a lawsuit-in-progress can join as a party by making a Motion to Intervene, if such a non-party has an interest in the subject matter of the original suit.

F) Motion to Quash – A Motion to Quash is a request to a court to render a previous decision of that court or a lower judicial body null and invalid.

G) Motion to Compel – A party files a Motion to Compel requesting a court to direct an opposing party or a third party to take some action generally in discovery disputes, when the movant has propounded discovery to either the opposing party or a third party and believes that the discovery responses from the opposing party or the third party are insufficient.

H) Motion in Limine – A party files a Motion in Limine requesting court for an order limiting or preventing certain irrelevant, inadmissible or prejudicial evidence from being presented by the other side at the trial of the case.

Document Coding

Document coding is the process of identifying and extracting information specific to each document into a common form to ensure a later date search. Our company has skilled and dedicated Indian attorneys, who are well versed with the complexities of document coding. Our team has worked on various platforms including Relativity.

1. Objective coding – The basic purpose of coding is to organize a collection of information into a database and retrieving the same, as and when necessary. We have a well-defined process to analyze and understand the project specifications. This helps the team to understand clients’ requirements and execute assignments both efficiently and accurately.

The fields for objective coding generally include (1) Begin Bates, (2) End Bates, (3) Document Type, (4) Document Title, (5) Document Date, (6) Date Estimated, (7) Author, (8) Recipient, (9) Copies, (10) Document Characteristics and (11) Names mentioned within text. However, the fields may be different subject to clients’ requirements.

2. Subjective coding – Subjective Coding is a more comprehensive coding process in addition to the objective coding that includes keywords and relevant data coding from the document text. Such coding is flexible and specific to client requirements.

Document Review

Document review is often the most labor-intensive and expensive stage of the litigation process. During this stage, each page of data in a collection is reviewed and analyzed to determine what documents must be produced or withheld from production in a lawsuit.