The Importance Of Keeping Solid Documentation

It is important to make a strategy for keeping your case relevant documentation. Pictures, recordings, written statements, bills, police reports, emails and much more are all documentation that can be used and will very likely be asked for in many legal cases.

Say you were in a car accident, it may take many months before anything goes to court. Once it does with all that has happened from the accident until the court appearance it is often very difficult to keep track of it all without having a plan.

Here are some tips that will help you make sure you have the right documentation when you need it.

When In Doubt Keep It- If you are unsure of whether not to keep an item or not keep it. Especially if you haven't yet talked to a lawyer about your case strategy. It may be something useful that can be used. You want a professional to make those decisions.

Always Make Multiple Copies- Remember that your lawyer is going to need copies, you will need at least 2 copies (in case one gets lost) and your insurance company will need copies and that's just for the people on your side.

Make A Digital Copy- Scanning your documents onto the computer make it easy to organize them and keep them together. It also makes it convenient for creating copies, say at a law office by using a flash disk. Email is another great way to do this and is often quite secure. The great thing about emails is that they have time stamps demonstrating a time-line becomes very easy if you use emails.

Use Your Email For Responses- This is a great way to demonstrate what communication was taking place over time. If you were called and talked to by someone who is involved with the case you may want to make a habit of emailing them back what you felt was talked about it and asking for a confirming response, even if you were on the same page on the phone. Its funny, people have more of a habit of doing what they say when they write it down.

Have Them Write Down Your Goals- When working with attorneys, union reps, and insurance agents ask them to right down their goals and strategy for your situation so you can use that as a benchmark for performance later as well as make sure everyone is on the same page.

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