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| Acknowledgment | A formal declaration.
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| Affiant | A person who swears to an affidavit.
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| 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.
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| Affirmation | A solemn and formal declaration that an affidavit is true.
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| Alphabetic Filing | A system of filing in which files are labeled and stored in alphabetic order.
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| Alphanumeric Filing | A combination of alphabetic and numeric filing.
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| 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.
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| Centralized Filing | A filing system in which the files are maintained at a single, central location.
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| Certificate of Mailing | In United States Postage, a receipt issued by the United States Postal Service that shows evidence of mailing.
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| Certified Mail | A postal service that provides proof of delivery for First-Class Mail and Priority Mail.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Consecutive-Number Filing | A system in which consecutively numbered records are arranged in ascending number order, from the lowest number to the highest number.
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| Controlled Access | A system in which only the file room staff is allowed to check out files to the receiving party.
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| Decentralized Filing | The files are located in a variety of locations,typically near where the work on the files occurs,such as by department.
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| Docket | A calender of cases to be tried in a certain term of court or a specific courtroom.
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| 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.
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| The system of delivering and receiving messages electronically.
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| 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.
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| First-Class Mail | Postal service for letters, postcards, greeting cards, business reply mail, bills, and checks.
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| Notary Public | A public officer whose function it is to administer oaths, to attest and certify documents, and to take acknowledgments.
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| Numeric Filing | Filing system in which numbers are assigned to client files,which are then filed in numerical order.
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| Oath | A solemn pledge by which a person signifies that he or she is bound in conscience to perform an act faithfully and truthfully.
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| Priority Mail | Postal service that provides air mail delivery for First Class Mail weighing over 13 ounces and under 70 pounds.
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| Registered Mail | A postal service that provides the most secure possible delivery for First-Class or Priority Mail.
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| Standard Mail | Postal service for printed matter, flyers circulars, advertising, newsletters, bulletins, catalogs, small parcels, and commercial mail.
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| 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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