CaseSoft Client FYI Newsletter - April 2006

CaseSoft FYI - April 2006

CaseMap 6 is coming soon. We're pleased to announce that this important new version of our flagship case analysis tool is in final testing and should be released by the end of May.

Our records indicate that your CaseMap licenses are covered by CaseSoft Extended Maintenance. This means you're eligible for the CaseMap 6 Upgrade at no charge, a savings of $199 per user license. Once CaseMap 6 is ready for download, we'll email our primary contacts at your organization so they can plan for deployment.

We're proud of the creative ideas we've built into our tools, e.g. the unique ReportBook work product introduced in CaseMap 5. We think CaseMap 6 offers several similar innovation home runs. For example, the new Intake Interview Jumpstart feature lets the ultimate client provide you with case background information electronically and then automatically imports this knowledge into a number of CaseMap spreadsheets. It's a very practical feature that delivers on two of CaseMap's core benefits -- early case analysis and building terrific client rapport. Learn more in Item 4 below.

CaseMap 6 also offers new tools that make it easier to analyze Summary Judgment risks and opportunities and to prepare MSJs and Memorandum in Opposition to Summary Judgment. Details in item 5 below.

We're also introducing an optional new tool in conjunction with CaseMap 6: our new PDF Bates Stamping product. Our Bates Stamper makes it easy to mark any number of PDFs with custom-formatted Bates Numbers. Better yet, CaseMap can sniff out these Bates Numbers and use them to automatically complete the Bates Number columns in CaseMap's Document Index spreadsheet. While Acrobat & CaseMap aren't the right solution for cases with 100,000s or 1,000,000s of documents, they now make an even better choice for the large percentage of cases that have a don't have this many documents. Details about this new product appear in item 2.

In summary, we'd like to think CaseMap 6 is both more powerful and even easier to use. We hope you'll agree.

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CaseSoft FYI April Contents

1. Coming Soon: CaseMap 6

2. New CaseSoft Product: PDF Bates Stamper

3. CaseMap 6's Intake Interview Jumpstart Feature

4. CaseMap 6's Motion for Summary Judgment Features

5. CaseSoft Academy Live Webinars & Open-Enrollment Classes

6. Help Please With TechnoLawyer Voting

7 . Learn a Feature in 30 Seconds: Changing CaseMap Row Heights

1. Coming Soon: CaseMap 6

CaseMap 6 is in final testing and should be released before the end of May.

As mentioned above, our records indicate you're covered by CaseSoft Extended Maintenance. This means you're eligible for the CaseMap 6 Upgrade at no charge, a savings of $199 per user license. Once CaseMap 6 is ready for download, we'll email our primary contacts at your organization so they can plan for deployment.

We apologize for the fact we don't have a beta version of CaseMap 6 available for download as we're making important modifications to CaseMap's installation program that we expect will only be completed and tested at final release. We have, however, created a series of online tutorials that show specific CaseMap 6 features in action. Links are provided to these webinars in the topics below.

Here are some of the changes coming in CaseMap 6:

New tools for analyzing Summary Judgment opportunities and risks (discussed in greater detail below)
New tools that make it easier to create Motions for Summary Judgment and Memorandum in Opposition (discussed in greater detail below)
An Intake Interview Jumpstart feature that gets case analysis and client relationships off to a fast start (discussed in greater detail below)
Enhanced Document Indexing & Privilege Log tools
Enhanced integration with Adobe Acrobat, Applied Discovery and many other document indexing and EDD tools
Loads of new tools for CaseMap power users, e.g., utilities to perform bulk changes to linked file paths, bulk updates to field values and bulk copying of field values
Faster performance, the ability to add additional custom fields, and a new look & feel

2. New CaseSoft Product: PDF Bates Stamper

When we release CaseMap 6 next month, we'll also be introducing a new CaseSoft product: The CaseMap PDF Bates Stamper.

The CaseMap PDF Bates Stamper is an Acrobat Plug-in we've developed that makes it easy to add Bates Stamps to single PDFs or batches of PDFs. In addition to providing flexible Bates Stamping options and being very easy to use, there's an important and unique aspect to the CaseMap PDF Bates Stamper:

The Bates Numbers our new Acrobat Plug-in adds to PDFs can be detected by CaseMap and used to automatically complete Bates-Begin and Bates-End fields in your CaseMap Document Index spreadsheet.

A bit of background: We didn't start out trying to create our own Bates Stamper that would work with CaseMap. Rather, we were hoping to find a way to detect the Bates Stamps other Acrobat Plug-ins added to PDFs. We discovered that the way these other products create Bates Stamps meant they couldn't be reliably detected. This led us to develop our own Acrobat Bates Stamping Plug-in that would work with CaseMap and to invest many months of development and testing efforts creating it.

You can see the new CaseMap PDF Bates Stamper in action this Friday by attending the webinar discussed below or by viewing this prerecorded webinar . . .

Click to view CaseMap Bates Stamper Overview prerecorded webinar (18 minutes)

The CaseSoft Bates Stamper is an optional tool that we're selling for $149 per user license -- a price that's substantially below other PDF Bates Stamping Plug-ins that are fine products, but which don't integrate with CaseMap. Please note that you must have Acrobat Standard or Professional and CaseMap 6 to use our new Bates Stamper product. For simplicity, the CaseMap Bates Stamper will be installed in Acrobat as part of the CaseMap 6 installation process.

In addition to offering single-user licenses, we're also offering organization licenses that cover 5-10 users for $495, 11-20 users for $895, 21-50 users for $1495, 50-100 users for $1995 and 100+ users for $2995. Write sales@casesoft.com if you're interested in a quote for your organization.

Special Offer on PDF Bates Stamper - Save $50 per license

Until April 30, we're offering a special price of $99 per user license on the CaseMap PDF Bates Stamper, a saving of $50 on the normal $149 price.

A decision to take advantage of this special offer is protected by our year-long total-satisfaction guarantee. The 1-year guarantee period won't start until CaseMap 6 and our new PDF Bates Stamper have been released.

Click to purchase CaseSoft Bates Stamper licenses at the special prerelease price.

Enhanced Acrobat Integration in CaseMap 6

CaseMap 6 features a number of other important enhancements to the integration between Acrobat and CaseMap. Here are some examples of the new CM6/Acrobat functionality:

The new Send PDFs to CaseMap utility that automatically creates a row in your CaseMap Document Index for each PDF of discovery documents. The Send PDFs to CaseMap utility even counts the number of pages in each PDF document and automatically fills in the “# of Pages” column in the CaseMap Document Index.
The new CaseMap 6 “Send to CaseMap” Plug-in for Acrobat that offers a slew of enhanced options making it both easier to cull facts from PDFs and also easier to review and code documents in your CaseMap Document Index.

To learn more about these new features, please view these prerecorded webinars . . .

Click to view the CaseMap 6/Acrobat Integration Overview prerecorded webinar (21 minutes)

We also have a new white paper that summarizes the litigation-oriented features of Acrobat . . .

Click to view the PDF version of "The Three Flavors of Adobe Acrobat: A Litigation Perspective"

Acrobat Training Live Webinar

Many clients have asked us the teach not just our own tools but also Adobe Acrobat. As such, we've recently added a new live webinar session called "Acrobat in Half a Day." It doesn't cover CaseSoft tools at all, but rather teaches the ins and outs of Acrobat.

The next Acrobat in Half a Day class is set for Tuesday, May 9. It's conducted as two two hour webinars -- one running from 12:00 - 2:00 ET and the second running from 3:30 - 5:30 ET.

Class size is limited to 12 so everyone's questions can be answered.

The fee for this session is $125. Please write csa@casesoft.com with questions or to schedule.

3. CaseMap 6's New Intake Interview Jumpstart Feature

The new Intake Interview Jumpstart feature is another example of the innovations coming in CaseMap 6.

This feature makes it easy to email clients or prospective clients a word-processing document they can use to provide you with background information about the persons, organizations and facts in their case and also about the questions they have regarding how you're going to handle their matter.

When clients return the completed CaseMap Intake Interview Form to you, a wizard imports it into CaseMap 6 filling in five spreadsheets and jumpstarting the creation of a new case file or augmenting the information you've already collected. CaseMap 6 even automatically creates a ReportBook that summarizes the information your clients provided and lays out the next steps in the case analysis process.

The result of the Intake Interview Jumpstart? You get a case file up and rolling with incredibly little work at the same time you honor your clients by getting them heavily involved in the case analysis process.

The Intake Interview Jumpstart feature works well with numerous types of clients, including with corporate counsel who so frequently live with a dispute for months or years before it turns into a piece of litigation.

We've just completed a new 17-minute online tutorial that shows the Intake Interview Jumpstart feature in action . . .

Click to view the Intake Interview Jumpstart prerecorded webinar

You can also check out the input and one of the outputs from the Intake Interview Jumpstart process . . .

Click to view a PDF of the default Interview Template Form that CaseMap 6 sends to your clients

Click to view a sample of the Intake Interview Jumpstart ReportBook that CaseMap 6 creates

4. CaseMap 6's Motion for Summary Judgment Features

We've honed the Summary Judgment-related features of CaseMap 6. The result is that CaseMap 6 makes it far easier to . . .

Prepare court filings required for MSJs and Memorandum in Opposition to MSJ
Identify Summary Judgment opportunities and risks
Organize the factual details required for Summary Judgment

CaseMap 6 includes a new Summary Judgment wizard that sends the undisputed facts or the disputed facts related to one or more case issues to your word processor for inclusion in a MSJ/Memorandum in Opposition to MSJ or for use as a Separate Statement of Material Facts. The word-processing document CaseMap creates lists these undisputed or disputed facts underneath the issues to which they relate. You determine which issues are included in the word-processing document and the format used to list facts.

CaseMap 6 also includes two new features that make it easy to evaluate summary judgment opportunities and risks.

The default view of the Issue spreadsheet in each CaseMap 6 file presents new columns that display the counts of undisputed and disputed facts linked to each case issue. Scan down these columns and you'll instantly see where opportunities/risks of Summary Judgment are present. Click the counts to inspect the facts behind the figures.

A new Issue Analysis mode in CaseMap 6 provides another way to evaluate Summary Judgment. CaseMap 6's Issue Analysis mode makes it a cinch to filter the Fact spreadsheet based on the issues to which facts are linked, whether facts are disputed or undisputed, etc. We believe the Issue Analysis mode will be particularly handy for those who aren't familiar with using CaseMap.

You can see some of CaseMap 6's Summary Judgment-related features in action by viewing a new 17-minute online tutorial we've prepared to illustrate them . . .

Click to view our new CaseMap 6 & Summary Judgment webinar

5. CaseSoft Academy Live Webinars & Open Enrollment Classes

Open Enrollment Classes

We have daylong CaseMap 201 open-enrollment classes coming up in . . .

Las Vegas, NV - May 16th, 2006
San Diego, CA - May 17th, 2006
St. Louis, MO - May 23rd, 2006
Los Angeles, CA - June 6th, 2006
Orlando, FL - June 13th, 2006
Seattle, WA - June 14th, 2006
Costa Mesa, CA - June 20th, 2006

Click to learn more about CaseSoft Academy open-enrollment classes

Live Webinars

We've begun offering live webinars versions of the open-enrollment classes we conduct in cities around North America. Our goal is to make it easier for our 1000s of clients who live outside major metropolitan areas to obtain advanced training.

Like our in-person classes, our live webinars are fee based. The fee varies based on the nature of the class.

We have a number of live webinars coming up in May and June, including

Acrobat in Half a Day -- This class is composed of two two-hour live webinars held in one afternoon. Doesn't teach CaseSoft tools. Teaches you how to get the most out of Adobe Acrobat.

May 9th

CaseMap 201 -- This class is composed of four two-hour live webinars held over two consecutive days.

May 11th & 12th

Becoming a CaseMap Power User -- This class is for experienced users and is composed of four two-hour live webinars held over two consecutive days.

May 18th & 19th
June 6th & 7th

Support/Training Certification -- This class is for Litigation Support/IS Professionals and is composed of four two-hour live webinars held over two consecutive days.

May 3rd & 4th
May 22nd & 23rd
June 22nd, & 23rd

If you would like to learn more about any of these webinars, please write csa@casesoft.com or contact your CaseSoft Account Representative.

6. Help Please With TechnoLawyer Voting

We'd like to request an important favor.

The TechnoLawyer listserv has begun its annual subscriber voting for favorite software tools. We would greatly appreciate it if you would take the time to vote for us today.

You must be TechnoLawyer member to vote and remain one until the end of May, but the TechnoLawyer is free and it’s easy to join at http://www.technolawyer.com/tlawards.asp

Please note that anyone can join the TechnoLawyer – it isn’t limited to attorneys.

Detailed instructions on how to vote appear below.

Here are the categories and votes we’re requesting:

12. Favorite Legal Knowledge Management Solution – CaseMap
14. Favorite Legal-Specific Tech Support – CaseSoft
16. Favorite Litigation Support Solution – CaseMap
18. Favorite Practice Area Solution – CaseMap
20. Favorite Transcript Management Solution – TextMap
21. Favorite Trial Presentation Solution – TimeMap
22. Favorite New Legal Product of 2004 – TimeMap 4
23. Favorite TechnoReleases – CaseSoft

We’re not suggesting that you submit your ballot without voting in any other categories relevant to your practice. However, we have confirmed with the TechnoLawyer that there’s no need to vote in all categories.

Click to visit the full ballot at the TechnoLawyer website

Below is draft text that conforms to the TechnoLawyer’s requirements that ballots only list the numbers of the categories in which you’re voting and the name of your single vote for each.

Email your completed ballot to tlballot2006@peerviews.com.

You could copy and paste the following text into a blank email, give the email a subject of your choosing, and edit the text to change votes as you wish.

12. CaseMap
14. CaseSoft
16. CaseMap
18. CaseMap
20. TextMap
21. TimeMap
22. TimeMap 4
23. CaseSoft

Again, if you’re not a TechnoLawyer member, please register at http://www.technolawyer.com/tlawards.asp before voting.

Thank you so much!!

7. Learn a Feature in 30 Seconds: Changing CaseMap Row Heights

We'll have this feature taught in 15 seconds, not 30!

Here's one way to change the height of rows in any of CaseMap spreadsheet:

Place your mouse pointer in the grey cells at the left end of a spreadsheet.
Move your mouse pointer up or down in the grey cells so it's on top of a line that separates one row from another.
When your mouse pointer changes to a double-headed arrow, click and drag to increase or decrease row height.

Since we have time left: You can also change row height by right clicking any field header and selecting the Row Height option on the shortcut menu.

Thank you for being a CaseSoft client!

Click to view a complete list of PDFs of our many case analysis white papers





CaseSoft FYI - April 2006
CaseMap 6 is coming soon. We're pleased to announce that this important new version of our flagship case analysis tool is in final testing and should be released by the end of May. Our records indicate that your CaseMap licenses are covered by CaseSoft Extended Maintenance. This means you're eligible for the CaseMap 6 Upgrade at no charge, a savings of $199 per user license. Once CaseMap 6 is ready for download, we'll email our primary contacts at your organization so they can plan for deployment. We're proud of the creative ideas we've built into our tools, e.g. the unique ReportBook work product introduced in CaseMap 5. We think CaseMap 6 offers several similar innovation home runs. For example, the new Intake Interview Jumpstart feature lets the ultimate client provide you with case background information electronically and then automatically imports this knowledge into a number of CaseMap spreadsheets. It's a very practical feature that delivers on two of CaseMap's core benefits -- early case analysis and building terrific client rapport. Learn more in Item 4 below. CaseMap 6 also offers new tools that make it easier to analyze Summary Judgment risks and opportunities and to prepare MSJs and Memorandum in Opposition to Summary Judgment. Details in item 5 below. We're also introducing an optional new tool in conjunction with CaseMap 6: our new PDF Bates Stamping product. Our Bates Stamper makes it easy to mark any number of PDFs with custom-formatted Bates Numbers. Better yet, CaseMap can sniff out these Bates Numbers and use them to automatically complete the Bates Number columns in CaseMap's Document Index spreadsheet. While Acrobat & CaseMap aren't the right solution for cases with 100,000s or 1,000,000s of documents, they now make an even better choice for the large percentage of cases that have a don't have this many documents. Details about this new product appear in item 2. In summary, we'd like to think CaseMap 6 is both more powerful and even easier to use. We hope you'll agree. CaseSoft Client FYI is our monthly e-mail newsletter (click to view prior issues) providing updates and tips for CaseMap, TimeMap, NoteMap, TextMap, and DepPrep users. Please follow the instructions located at the bottom of this email message anytime you would like to unsubscribe.
CaseSoft FYI April Contents 1. Coming Soon: CaseMap 6 2. New CaseSoft Product: PDF Bates Stamper 3. CaseMap 6's Intake Interview Jumpstart Feature 4. CaseMap 6's Motion for Summary Judgment Features 5. CaseSoft Academy Live Webinars & Open-Enrollment Classes 6. Help Please With TechnoLawyer Voting 7 . Learn a Feature in 30 Seconds: Changing CaseMap Row Heights
1. Coming Soon: CaseMap 6 CaseMap 6 is in final testing and should be released before the end of May. As mentioned above, our records indicate you're covered by CaseSoft Extended Maintenance. This means you're eligible for the CaseMap 6 Upgrade at no charge, a savings of $199 per user license. Once CaseMap 6 is ready for download, we'll email our primary contacts at your organization so they can plan for deployment. We apologize for the fact we don't have a beta version of CaseMap 6 available for download as we're making important modifications to CaseMap's installation program that we expect will only be completed and tested at final release. We have, however, created a series of online tutorials that show specific CaseMap 6 features in action. Links are provided to these webinars in the topics below. Here are some of the changes coming in CaseMap 6: New tools for analyzing Summary Judgment opportunities and risks (discussed in greater detail below) New tools that make it easier to create Motions for Summary Judgment and Memorandum in Opposition (discussed in greater detail below) An Intake Interview Jumpstart feature that gets case analysis and client relationships off to a fast start (discussed in greater detail below) Enhanced Document Indexing & Privilege Log tools Enhanced integration with Adobe Acrobat, Applied Discovery and many other document indexing and EDD tools Loads of new tools for CaseMap power users, e.g., utilities to perform bulk changes to linked file paths, bulk updates to field values and bulk copying of field values Faster performance, the ability to add additional custom fields, and a new look & feel
2. New CaseSoft Product: PDF Bates Stamper When we release CaseMap 6 next month, we'll also be introducing a new CaseSoft product: The CaseMap PDF Bates Stamper. The CaseMap PDF Bates Stamper is an Acrobat Plug-in we've developed that makes it easy to add Bates Stamps to single PDFs or batches of PDFs. In addition to providing flexible Bates Stamping options and being very easy to use, there's an important and unique aspect to the CaseMap PDF Bates Stamper: The Bates Numbers our new Acrobat Plug-in adds to PDFs can be detected by CaseMap and used to automatically complete Bates-Begin and Bates-End fields in your CaseMap Document Index spreadsheet. A bit of background: We didn't start out trying to create our own Bates Stamper that would work with CaseMap. Rather, we were hoping to find a way to detect the Bates Stamps other Acrobat Plug-ins added to PDFs. We discovered that the way these other products create Bates Stamps meant they couldn't be reliably detected. This led us to develop our own Acrobat Bates Stamping Plug-in that would work with CaseMap and to invest many months of development and testing efforts creating it. You can see the new CaseMap PDF Bates Stamper in action this Friday by attending the webinar discussed below or by viewing this prerecorded webinar . . . Click to view CaseMap Bates Stamper Overview prerecorded webinar (18 minutes) The CaseSoft Bates Stamper is an optional tool that we're selling for $149 per user license -- a price that's substantially below other PDF Bates Stamping Plug-ins that are fine products, but which don't integrate with CaseMap. Please note that you must have Acrobat Standard or Professional and CaseMap 6 to use our new Bates Stamper product. For simplicity, the CaseMap Bates Stamper will be installed in Acrobat as part of the CaseMap 6 installation process. In addition to offering single-user licenses, we're also offering organization licenses that cover 5-10 users for $495, 11-20 users for $895, 21-50 users for $1495, 50-100 users for $1995 and 100+ users for $2995. Write sales@casesoft.com if you're interested in a quote for your organization. Special Offer on PDF Bates Stamper - Save $50 per license Until April 30, we're offering a special price of $99 per user license on the CaseMap PDF Bates Stamper, a saving of $50 on the normal $149 price. A decision to take advantage of this special offer is protected by our year-long total-satisfaction guarantee. The 1-year guarantee period won't start until CaseMap 6 and our new PDF Bates Stamper have been released. Click to purchase CaseSoft Bates Stamper licenses at the special prerelease price. Enhanced Acrobat Integration in CaseMap 6 CaseMap 6 features a number of other important enhancements to the integration between Acrobat and CaseMap. Here are some examples of the new CM6/Acrobat functionality: The new Send PDFs to CaseMap utility that automatically creates a row in your CaseMap Document Index for each PDF of discovery documents. The Send PDFs to CaseMap utility even counts the number of pages in each PDF document and automatically fills in the “# of Pages” column in the CaseMap Document Index. The new CaseMap 6 “Send to CaseMap” Plug-in for Acrobat that offers a slew of enhanced options making it both easier to cull facts from PDFs and also easier to review and code documents in your CaseMap Document Index. To learn more about these new features, please view these prerecorded webinars . . . Click to view the CaseMap 6/Acrobat Integration Overview prerecorded webinar (21 minutes) We also have a new white paper that summarizes the litigation-oriented features of Acrobat . . . Click to view the PDF version of "The Three Flavors of Adobe Acrobat: A Litigation Perspective" Acrobat Training Live Webinar Many clients have asked us the teach not just our own tools but also Adobe Acrobat. As such, we've recently added a new live webinar session called "Acrobat in Half a Day." It doesn't cover CaseSoft tools at all, but rather teaches the ins and outs of Acrobat. The next Acrobat in Half a Day class is set for Tuesday, May 9. It's conducted as two two hour webinars -- one running from 12:00 - 2:00 ET and the second running from 3:30 - 5:30 ET. Class size is limited to 12 so everyone's questions can be answered. The fee for this session is $125. Please write csa@casesoft.com with questions or to schedule.
3. CaseMap 6's New Intake Interview Jumpstart Feature The new Intake Interview Jumpstart feature is another example of the innovations coming in CaseMap 6. This feature makes it easy to email clients or prospective clients a word-processing document they can use to provide you with background information about the persons, organizations and facts in their case and also about the questions they have regarding how you're going to handle their matter. When clients return the completed CaseMap Intake Interview Form to you, a wizard imports it into CaseMap 6 filling in five spreadsheets and jumpstarting the creation of a new case file or augmenting the information you've already collected. CaseMap 6 even automatically creates a ReportBook that summarizes the information your clients provided and lays out the next steps in the case analysis process. The result of the Intake Interview Jumpstart? You get a case file up and rolling with incredibly little work at the same time you honor your clients by getting them heavily involved in the case analysis process. The Intake Interview Jumpstart feature works well with numerous types of clients, including with corporate counsel who so frequently live with a dispute for months or years before it turns into a piece of litigation. We've just completed a new 17-minute online tutorial that shows the Intake Interview Jumpstart feature in action . . . Click to view the Intake Interview Jumpstart prerecorded webinar You can also check out the input and one of the outputs from the Intake Interview Jumpstart process . . . Click to view a PDF of the default Interview Template Form that CaseMap 6 sends to your clients Click to view a sample of the Intake Interview Jumpstart ReportBook that CaseMap 6 creates
4. CaseMap 6's Motion for Summary Judgment Features We've honed the Summary Judgment-related features of CaseMap 6. The result is that CaseMap 6 makes it far easier to . . . Prepare court filings required for MSJs and Memorandum in Opposition to MSJ Identify Summary Judgment opportunities and risks Organize the factual details required for Summary Judgment CaseMap 6 includes a new Summary Judgment wizard that sends the undisputed facts or the disputed facts related to one or more case issues to your word processor for inclusion in a MSJ/Memorandum in Opposition to MSJ or for use as a Separate Statement of Material Facts. The word-processing document CaseMap creates lists these undisputed or disputed facts underneath the issues to which they relate. You determine which issues are included in the word-processing document and the format used to list facts. CaseMap 6 also includes two new features that make it easy to evaluate summary judgment opportunities and risks. The default view of the Issue spreadsheet in each CaseMap 6 file presents new columns that display the counts of undisputed and disputed facts linked to each case issue. Scan down these columns and you'll instantly see where opportunities/risks of Summary Judgment are present. Click the counts to inspect the facts behind the figures. A new Issue Analysis mode in CaseMap 6 provides another way to evaluate Summary Judgment. CaseMap 6's Issue Analysis mode makes it a cinch to filter the Fact spreadsheet based on the issues to which facts are linked, whether facts are disputed or undisputed, etc. We believe the Issue Analysis mode will be particularly handy for those who aren't familiar with using CaseMap. You can see some of CaseMap 6's Summary Judgment-related features in action by viewing a new 17-minute online tutorial we've prepared to illustrate them . . . Click to view our new CaseMap 6 & Summary Judgment webinar
5. CaseSoft Academy Live Webinars & Open Enrollment Classes Open Enrollment Classes We have daylong CaseMap 201 open-enrollment classes coming up in . . . Las Vegas, NV - May 16th, 2006 San Diego, CA - May 17th, 2006 St. Louis, MO - May 23rd, 2006 Los Angeles, CA - June 6th, 2006 Orlando, FL - June 13th, 2006 Seattle, WA - June 14th, 2006 Costa Mesa, CA - June 20th, 2006 Click to learn more about CaseSoft Academy open-enrollment classes Live Webinars We've begun offering live webinars versions of the open-enrollment classes we conduct in cities around North America. Our goal is to make it easier for our 1000s of clients who live outside major metropolitan areas to obtain advanced training. Like our in-person classes, our live webinars are fee based. The fee varies based on the nature of the class. We have a number of live webinars coming up in May and June, including Acrobat in Half a Day -- This class is composed of two two-hour live webinars held in one afternoon. Doesn't teach CaseSoft tools. Teaches you how to get the most out of Adobe Acrobat. May 9th CaseMap 201 -- This class is composed of four two-hour live webinars held over two consecutive days. May 11th & 12th Becoming a CaseMap Power User -- This class is for experienced users and is composed of four two-hour live webinars held over two consecutive days. May 18th & 19th June 6th & 7th Support/Training Certification -- This class is for Litigation Support/IS Professionals and is composed of four two-hour live webinars held over two consecutive days. May 3rd & 4th May 22nd & 23rd June 22nd, & 23rd If you would like to learn more about any of these webinars, please write csa@casesoft.com or contact your CaseSoft Account Representative.
6. Help Please With TechnoLawyer Voting We'd like to request an important favor. The TechnoLawyer listserv has begun its annual subscriber voting for favorite software tools. We would greatly appreciate it if you would take the time to vote for us today. You must be TechnoLawyer member to vote and remain one until the end of May, but the TechnoLawyer is free and it’s easy to join at http://www.technolawyer.com/tlawards.asp Please note that anyone can join the TechnoLawyer – it isn’t limited to attorneys. Detailed instructions on how to vote appear below. Here are the categories and votes we’re requesting: 12. Favorite Legal Knowledge Management Solution – CaseMap 14. Favorite Legal-Specific Tech Support – CaseSoft 16. Favorite Litigation Support Solution – CaseMap 18. Favorite Practice Area Solution – CaseMap 20. Favorite Transcript Management Solution – TextMap 21. Favorite Trial Presentation Solution – TimeMap 22. Favorite New Legal Product of 2004 – TimeMap 4 23. Favorite TechnoReleases – CaseSoft We’re not suggesting that you submit your ballot without voting in any other categories relevant to your practice. However, we have confirmed with the TechnoLawyer that there’s no need to vote in all categories. Click to visit the full ballot at the TechnoLawyer website Below is draft text that conforms to the TechnoLawyer’s requirements that ballots only list the numbers of the categories in which you’re voting and the name of your single vote for each. Email your completed ballot to tlballot2006@peerviews.com. You could copy and paste the following text into a blank email, give the email a subject of your choosing, and edit the text to change votes as you wish. 12. CaseMap 14. CaseSoft 16. CaseMap 18. CaseMap 20. TextMap 21. TimeMap 22. TimeMap 4 23. CaseSoft Again, if you’re not a TechnoLawyer member, please register at http://www.technolawyer.com/tlawards.asp before voting. Thank you so much!!
7. Learn a Feature in 30 Seconds: Changing CaseMap Row Heights We'll have this feature taught in 15 seconds, not 30! Here's one way to change the height of rows in any of CaseMap spreadsheet: Place your mouse pointer in the grey cells at the left end of a spreadsheet. Move your mouse pointer up or down in the grey cells so it's on top of a line that separates one row from another. When your mouse pointer changes to a double-headed arrow, click and drag to increase or decrease row height. Since we have time left: You can also change row height by right clicking any field header and selecting the Row Height option on the shortcut menu.
Thank you for being a CaseSoft client! Click to view a complete list of PDFs of our many case analysis white papers