Shadow Wrought's Journal: Bates Number Humor

First, the primer. Bates numbers are consequitive numbers stamped on every page of a document in discovery. So, as an example, if Shadow Wrought (my current login) was suing Sureft (my old login), Shadow Wrought would give Sureft pages labeled SW-000001 to SW-012345 and Sureft would give Shadow Wrought SUREFT-00001 to SUREFT-04321. So, now that you understand the basics, you'll get the humor.

Today one of my co-workers (and a fellow geek at heart) sent around a document that included this sample bates number: HGTTG-00042.

I think I'm the only one who caught it;-)

Nice!

[tomhudson]

n/t

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[Shadow Wrought]

Thanks! I'll pass on your appreciation;-)

I guess

[ces]

FNORD-00023 would be too obvious?

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[Shadow Wrought]

Shhh... we do not discuss the FNORD series around here... ;-)

That's cute

[Degrees]

I made sure to let my co-workers know I was the tech who generated CMR ticket 1337 when it came out. ;-)

So what do you do when the discovery material isn't paper? I'm having to provide mailbox contents, and FRCP says "in original form", so that's what I'm doing - supplying the database that makes up the mailbox on DVD. Or do I not have to worry about it - Counsel will take care of those kinds of details?

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[Shadow Wrought]

So what do you do when the discovery material isn't paper? I'm having to provide mailbox contents, and FRCP says "in original form", so that's what I'm doing - supplying the database that makes up the mailbox on DVD. Or do I not have to worry about it - Counsel will take care of those kinds of details?

IANAL, so I can only tell you the way we handle it with outside clients. Usually we just want the raw electronic data from you. If its e-mails usually its in a .pst file for each user. We have software th

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[Degrees]

Thanks! I was interested, because this is the first time I've gone through anything like this. I have already sat down with our Counsel, but they aren't really sure what they want, either. So I'm handing over the mailbox as I can extract it. GroupWise doesn't do .PST files - so I'm handing over the databases that make up a mailbox. I was just wondering how that kind of thing worked.

Documenting all the steps I take might be hard - but that's my problem.

Absolutely, I understand that you cannot give legal

Nice

[The Fun Guy]

Next will be NCC 00001701, right?

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[Shadow Wrought]

Indeed. Originally they thought it was going to be one off document, but then they had to add NCC 00001701A-D as well. I hear it's about enterprise implementations;-)

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[The Fun Guy]

Trouble is, they destroy the original before they add the "A" version. Then destroy "A" before adding the "B" version, etc. Continuity gets to be a problem.

Cool

[Captain Splendid]

Any chance of a partial scan for proof and posterity?