Short Name

What is Short Name?

Short Names are special, unique identifiers that are assigned to each person, place, or thing in your case. We highly recommend Short Name data entry. That said, you can enter data in Expert Tab without using Short Names, but if you do you'll lose much of the power that LegalKing puts at your fingertips to automatically connect case knowledge elements.

Why to use Short Name?

Using Short Names brings consistency to your case information. Suppose you’re working on a case involving a defendant named “Life Insurance Corporation of India”. If you don’t use Short Names, it’s likely that this one entity will be entered as LIC, Life Insurance Corporation, Life Insurance Corporation of India, and Life Insurance Corporation of India Ltd. Having multiple names for one entity is problematic. Use Life Insurance Corporation of India's Short Name and you'll be confident that when you filter the chronology down to all facts that mention the defendant you won't miss a single critical fact.