We found a great website regarding litigation support written by Amy Bowser-Rollins (litigationsupportguru.com). She has written a series of article titled “What is Litigation Support?” which we are hoping she doesn’t mind if we share with you. They describe how each ‘litigation support career’ plays a part in the overall picture that is litigation support.
Check out her site for yourself, we found some very interesting stuff and she even offers a newsletter if you’d like.
“What is Litigation Support?”
One of the careers within litigation support is a Database Administrator. A Database Administrator designs, maintains and manipulates databases within a variety of software solutions. They import data, export data, search data, convert data, report on data and transfer data from one media to another.
Database Administrators manage document reviews that use databases which require database management. They also categorize data within a database, run searches and save them for reuse and design database coding forms.
Document productions are another aspect of dealing with databases. Once the document review is complete, they export data from the database into a production format.
The database administrator role writes batch files and scripts to automate tasks. Some might have a specialty with SQL or C# programming languages.
A litigation support analyst is most likely handling the role of database administrator, but there are plenty of litigation support project managers that do their own database administration.