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NALS CH 3 897586
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Acknowledgment | A formal declaration. |
| Affiant | A person who swears to an affidavit. |
| Affidavit | A written or printed declaration of facts made voluntarily and confirmed by oath of the maker to a person with authority to administer the oath. |
| Affirmation | A solemn and formal declaration that an affidavit is true. |
| Alphabetic Filing | A system of filing in which files are labeled and stored in alphabetic order. |
| Alphanumeric Filing | A combination of alphabetic and numeric filing. |
| Brief Bank | A law firm's collection, either in electronic form or in hard copy, of a legal research, briefs, and forms that may be reviewed or reused for other projects. |
| Centralized Filing | A filing system in which the files are maintained at a single, central location. |
| Certificate of Mailing | In United States Postage, a receipt issued by the United States Postal Service that shows evidence of mailing. |
| Certified Mail | A postal service that provides proof of delivery for First-Class Mail and Priority Mail. |
| Conflicts Checks | The procedure by which a law firm determines that there is no conflict in accepting work from a new client or on a new matter from an existing client. |
| Conflict of Interest | A situation in which a person's own needs and desires might lead him or her to violate a duty to another who has a right to depend on him or her. |
| Consecutive-Number Filing | A system in which consecutively numbered records are arranged in ascending number order, from the lowest number to the highest number. |
| Controlled Access | A system in which only the file room staff is allowed to check out files to the receiving party. |
| Decentralized Filing | The files are located in a variety of locations,typically near where the work on the files occurs,such as by department. |
| Docket | A calender of cases to be tried in a certain term of court or a specific courtroom. |
| Docket Clerk (or Docket Coordinator) | A law office employee who is responsible for maintaining the law firm docket control system and reminding attorneys of deadlines in advance. |
| The system of delivering and receiving messages electronically. | |
| File Management | The control of each file in the office from the time it is opened to the time that it is ultimately closed and destroyed. |
| First-Class Mail | Postal service for letters, postcards, greeting cards, business reply mail, bills, and checks. |
| Notary Public | A public officer whose function it is to administer oaths, to attest and certify documents, and to take acknowledgments. |
| Numeric Filing | Filing system in which numbers are assigned to client files,which are then filed in numerical order. |
| Oath | A solemn pledge by which a person signifies that he or she is bound in conscience to perform an act faithfully and truthfully. |
| Priority Mail | Postal service that provides air mail delivery for First Class Mail weighing over 13 ounces and under 70 pounds. |
| Registered Mail | A postal service that provides the most secure possible delivery for First-Class or Priority Mail. |
| Standard Mail | Postal service for printed matter, flyers circulars, advertising, newsletters, bulletins, catalogs, small parcels, and commercial mail. |
| Terminal-Digit Filing | An arrangement of numeric files that groups together all file numbers that end in the same last two digits. |
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