Exhibits, Exhibits, Exhibits!

[Kerry F]

I thought there was a thread about this but couldn't find it.

It seems all my jobs now have 40 plus exhibits.  Jeez, it takes a lot of time to type in the descriptions for these, especially with all the emails.  Can you get away with just saying:

"Email dated ______"   Or "Email chain dated__________" instead of who it's to and from?

How short can we get away with our descriptions.  Because I had to index 60 exhibits on a job last week and it was a PITA!   My index was 10 pages long.

[Anne E Pothier]

Just as a suggestion, I report in CA.  If I get a stack of exhibits over 20 exhibits, I charge a fee of $30 per hour for marking and identifying exhibits in the index.  It is a lot of work, and I make sure my time is paid for.

[Kelli Combs (admin)]

When I get that many exhibits, I just put "Email Bates stamped STP0000234.

I don't put any more of a description because it's too time consuming and we don't get paid anything extra for the time.  Only one that makes money off the exhibits is the office for copying them.

[Martha R]

On those email chains I identify it by "subject"

"E-mail string, Subject:, blah blah, Bates stamped EO000245 through 259"

that is assuming the subject is the same all the way through the string, which most of the times it is.