Files
Files are the papers of one case, kept in that case. Orders, petitions, notes, and client letters go where the case is rather than into a folder on a drive that only the person who made it can find. Anyone with access to the case has the file.
What it is
The case's papers, held with the case and readable by the people who work on it.
What it is not
It is not a general document store for the whole law firm, and it is not a filing cabinet you have to organise before it is useful.
One case, one file
The reason papers go missing is rarely that somebody deleted them. It is that they were saved somewhere sensible to one person and invisible to everyone else. Attaching the file to the case removes that choice, which is the point.
What goes in
- Orders and judgments as the court issued them.
- Petitions, replies, and applications.
- Client letters and instructions.
- Notes from a call or a conference.
- Anything scanned from paper.
Reading a long file
For a file too long to reread, you can put a plain question to it and get an answer that names the page it came from. That is covered under questions on a file.
Questions
- Is there a size limit?
- Nothing you would meet in practice. Sets running to thousands of pages are what the bulk review tools exist for.
- Can we keep using Google Drive?
- Yes. Tulip connects to Drive, and the case remains the place where the file is recorded so nobody has to guess which copy is current.
- Who can open a file?
- The people you have given access to that case. A client sees only what you deliberately send them.
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