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December Client FYI Quick Links
A Look Back at the Year and
a Look Ahead to 2010
We
would like to wish you and yours the very best this
holiday season. And may you have a successful
2010!
We hope we were able to help you increase
efficiency this past year through significant releases
to CaseMap® fact and issue management software, TextMap®
transcript management software and TimeMap® timeline
graphing tool. Let’s take a quick look back at the key
enhancements made over the year:
- Linked, Synch’d and Ready for Action:
TextMap 5 (March 2009)
- Ensure Evidence is Always at Hand: TextMap
Exhibit Linker (May 2009)
- Your Case File Became an Indispensable Research
Resource: CaseMap 8.5 (August 2009)
- Quickly Bring the Events of Your Case into Clear
Focus: TimeMap 5 (October 2009)
Linked, Synch’d and Ready for
Action
With the release of TextMap
5, the most flexible, affordable transcript management
tool on the market got even better. TextMap is now the
most feature-rich, yet simple-to-use transcript solution
available—and it comes at only a fraction of the
cost of other tools. LiveNote™ customers see the
difference, recognize the cost savings, and are
switching to TextMap.
Philadelphia-based Anapol,
Schwartz, Weiss, Cohan, Feldman & Smalley, P.C.,
decided to migrate from LiveNote to TextMap 5 to address
concerns about cost and the need for remote access to
transcript databases. After using TextMap 5 on a trial
basis, they were convinced it was the superior product.
Shareholder Mark LeWinter stated, “TextMap was
so clearly superior to LiveNote on two principal levels.
First, the pricing model for TextMap was far more
attractive than what we had in place with LiveNote and
it created a scenario where the value proposition was a
no-brainer advantage for TextMap. Second, I personally
found TextMap to be much more conducive to the realities
of life for a busy litigator who spends a lot of time on
the road. TextMap is very portable and much easier for
our paperless work environment.”
Read the case study
to understand more about why this firm found TextMap 5
to be the better solution.
Then try TextMap 5 at no charge*.
You, too, can experience significant cost savings by
moving to TextMap.
Ensure Evidence
is Always at Hand
In May, TextMap
Exhibit Linker made it easier for court reporters and
litigation support staff to create an electronic exhibit
package that generates hyperlinks from any exhibit
referenced in the transcript to the actual, scanned
exhibit.
The exhibit package can be e-mailed to
the attorney for import into TextMap and prompt
review—saving valuable time and ensuring that evidence
is always at hand. The days of digging through boxes of
documents to review a key exhibit are over.
With
TextMap Exhibit Linker, litigation support staff can:
- Quickly populate a TextMap case on behalf of the
attorney
- Create links to exhibit in bulk via aliases or
manually to individual references
- Enable attorneys to review exhibits in the context
of the transcript they are reading
- Reconcile inconsistencies in the naming
conventions of exhibits
Download a 30-day trial version of TextMap
Exhibit Linker.*
Your Case File
Became an Indispensable Research Resource
The exciting release of CaseMap 8.5 provided
dynamic two-way integration with LexisNexis®
research content to help you get more out of
what you put into CaseMap.
Let’s say you’re
working in a CaseMap file and you see the name of an
expert witness you want to know a little more about.
Instead of going off task and digging around various
places, now you can simply click on the name and
continue your research—right from your case file. You
even receive suggestions on appropriate sources and
tools to further research so you can rest easy that you
have left no stone unturned.
Through integration
with the legal profession’s premier citation service,
CaseMap now displays Shepard’s Signal™
indicators so you can easily validate cited cases. Plus,
a new Case Jumpstart Wizard lets you reduce tedious data
entry and set up each new case with ease. Just enter
case players and other entities in a simple-to-use form.
The Wizard automatically fills in the correct
spreadsheets with the data you enter.
Learn how you can get even more out of
what you put into CaseMap 8.5 and then download a 30-day
trial.*
Quickly Bring the
Events of Your Case into Clear Focus
You already know that TimeMap is the
industry-leading timeline graphing tool that lets you
create high-quality, low-cost timelines in seconds. With
the release of TimeMap 5, it’s better than
ever.
Visual timelines make it easy for your
litigation team, witnesses, clients, the judge, jurors
and other key players to understand the sequence of
events in a case. And with TimeMap you keep production
costs low at pennies per timeline. Plus, it works
seamlessly with CaseMap fact and issue management
software. With a click, you can send facts from CaseMap
to TimeMap. Then let TimeMap handle the rest!
The enhancements to TimeMap released earlier
this year made it even faster and easier to create
timelines for use in analyzing and communicating
evidence. Enhancements included:
- A new spreadsheet view, allowing
you to quickly input case facts into a simple
spreadsheet that then automatically fills in the
timeline with the data you entered.
- A Find and Replace feature, which
saves you valuable time by reducing manual updates.
- The ability to display customized
graphics in fact and text boxes that help you
make a greater impact on juries.
A 30-day
trial version of TimeMap 5 is available for
download.*
We look forward to announcing
additional enhancements next year as we continue helping
to make your work as efficient, collaborative and cost
effective as possible! Happy holidays!
*Some
restrictions may apply. Software is a full version
available for 30-day trial use from the date of
download.
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CaseMap Wins
Top Technology Honors, Thanks to Your Votes!
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We are pleased to announce that CaseMap®
fact and issue management software won two
first-place Gold awards! LexisNexis® Litigation
Solutions Jumpstart Consulting—which includes
consulting for CaseMap, LAW PreDiscovery™ and
Concordance® software—also took home a
second-place Silver award.
The awards
recognize law technology leaders that excel in
both innovation and implementation. CaseMap 8
received the most votes in the categories of Case
Management Software for Large Firms and Case
Management Software for Small and Mid-Sized
Firms. | In addition,
LexisNexis Litigation Solutions won in the following
categories:
Gold—LexisNexis LAW
PreDiscovery 5.3 and 5.4 software—EDD Services
Collection
Silver—LexisNexis
Concordance 10 discovery management software—EDD
Services
Review
Silver—LexisNexis
Litigation Solutions Jumpstart
Consulting—Litigation Support
Consultant
Bronze—LexisNexis
LAW PreDiscovery 5.3 and 5.4—EDD Services
Processing
Bronze—LexisNexis
Concordance 10—Litigation Support
Software
Thank you for your votes! Your
ongoing support and valuable input enable us to continue
enhancing CaseMap to meet your needs.
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30-Second
Skill Tuning: Using the Object Type Field in
CaseMap®
You can filter your
CaseMap® spreadsheets by Object Type, as needed, to
display only selected types. Here are some points to
help you make the most of this capability.
Selecting and Adding Types within Your
Spreadsheets
- CaseMap provides 11 pre-defined Object Types
for your spreadsheets: Persons, Organizations,
Documents, Other Physical Evidence, Events, Places,
Pleadings, Proceedings, Other Discovery, Demonstrative
Evidence and Other Objects. Within the spreadsheets
you create based on those Object Types, you can
customize columns.
- Most of the Object spreadsheets in CaseMap have
a default field called Type. The plus sign in the
header of the Type field indicates availability of an
open-ended list. In other
words, you can either:
- Select from a preexisting pull-down list
(e.g., the Persons spreadsheet lists Expert Witness,
Fact Witness and
others)
or
- Just enter a new type in the field. If you
take the latter approach, CaseMap displays a message
asking if you want to add the item to the list. If
you choose Yes, the item is added to the pull-down
list.
Filtering Example
Let’s
say you entered several e-mail messages into CaseMap as
documents and set the type for each to E-mail. To get a
list of just the e-mails, click the word
E-mail so that it is highlighted and
right-click to display the shortcut menu. Now,
click Filter by Selection. Your
spreadsheet now shows only the e-mails. To cancel the
filter, right-click in any cell and choose
Cancel Search.
The
process is the same for any type of Object. If the
Object does not fit into any other category, start from
the Object Type called “Other Objects.” Then use
the Type field to add your own Object Types and run a
filter to narrow your list down to just one type.
Adding Fields to Refine the
Organization of Your Spreadsheet
Another option available to help you
organize any spreadsheet is to insert new fields, which
appear as new columns. Just go to
the field header to the left of the spot where
you want the new column to appear, right-click in that
header and select Insert Field(s). A
list of available fields will display. Check the box(es)
next to the fields you want to add to your spreadsheet,
and click OK. Your new fields are
fixed; you cannot add any
further definition to them.
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Adjusting the
Way Time Scale Dates Appear in TimeMap®
How can you alter the time scale dates, months
or years displayed by TimeMap® timeline graphing
software? When you create a new visual, TimeMap creates
the best time scale based on the dates and the length of
the scale. TimeMap does this for you automatically since
creating an accurate scale is really the most difficult
part of creating a timeline.
While TimeMap
doesn’t provide a way to specify exactly which dates,
months or years appear, you can alter which ones display
by changing the length of the scale. You can
also insert or delete time scale breaks.
There are a few ways to change the length of the
scale:
- Change the "Pages Wide"
setting. Simply click on the Time Scale menu
and choose Increase Pages Wide or
Decrease Pages Wide. For example, if
you have a lot of white space in the visual and you
are seeing days when you want to see months, reducing
the number of "pages wide" might help. Generally, 10
to 15 facts per page is reasonable.
- Expand or compress the scale in
one-inch increments if you are working with
less space. Just right-click on the scale and choose
Expand or Compress.
Since the one-inch increment is small, you may need to
click the option several times before you see a
noticeable change. These options are also available
under the Time Scale menu.
- Insert or delete time scale
breaks. When your time scale has a long
period of time where nothing appears, the breaks
compress that blank space. You can insert a break by
right-clicking on the scale and choosing
Insert Time Scale Break. To delete a
break, right-click on it and choose Delete
Break.
Please keep
in mind that the dates you include in your visual have a
major impact on what the scale shows. As a result, you
may not always be able to show the exact dates you want
on the scale―even if you change its length.
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CaseMap®
Training Schedule
Below is our
CaseMap® training schedule. To register for a class, please fill out a registration form
and return it at least one week before the start date.
In response to client demand and the current
economic climate, we are now offering more online
training opportunities. Another great way to minimize
training costs is for us to come to you with our popular
and affordable on-site training and “Jumpstart”
consulting sessions (contact us for more information).
Online Classes
- January 4: CaseMap for Attorneys, 11:30 A.M. – 2:30 P.M. ET
- January 11: FastTrack, 11:30 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. ET
- January 25: FastTrack, 11:30 A.M. – 3:30 P.M.
ET
- February 2: CaseMap for Attorneys, 11:30 A.M. – 2:30 P.M. ET
- February 3: FastTrack, 11:30 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. ET
- February 18: CaseMap for Attorneys, 11:30 A.M. – 2:30 P.M. ET
- February 19: FastTrack, 11:30 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. ET
Course Descriptions
CaseMap for Attorneys: This
course is designed with attorneys in mind—it's quick,
targeted, and online. You’ll learn to quickly build a
case, analyze and link your data, and run pertinent
reports.
FastTrack: This course
is designed to help new CaseMap customers learn the
essentials of the program. Topics include CaseMap
strategies, sorting and searching techniques, creating
great work product, and using the Send to CaseMap
feature in Adobe® Acrobat® and other tools.
To register, fill out and send in a registration form.
To learn more, visit our Web site
law.lexisnexis.com/casemap/training,
e-mail litservtraining@lexisnexis.com
or call 425-463-3546.
Drive greater efficiency and
control throughout litigation.
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