Client FYI - Updates and Case Analysis Tips

FYI for April 2007

Client FYI April Contents

Last Chance to Register, CaseMap® Peer-to-Peer Client User Summit
Announcing a New Tool for Collaboration—CaseMap® Report Publisher
New! Paralegal Certification Classes via the Web
Free Webinar from an Expert in the Field of Investigation

Last Chance to Register, CaseMap Peer-to-Peer Client User Summit

LexisNexis® CaseMap is presenting a Peer to Peer Client User Summit in Los Angeles on May 8 at the Biltmore Hotel. This not a training session, but rather best practices in the use of CaseMap, TimeMap and TextMap presented by expert client users.

We’ve extended the Early Bird Registration of $345 for our clients and have additional discounts available for multiple registrations. You can make individual registrations and see the agenda here.

This one-of-a kind CaseMap Client Summit is conducted almost exclusively by peers who are successfully using CaseMap in their practice. Get countless time- and effort-saving tips and techniques. Hear incredible success stories and discover how you can put these best practices to work in your firm.

In addition to gaining valuable tips and techniques from experts in the field of litigation, you can earn up to 6 CLE credits. Presenters will include the California Attorney General Office on how they effectively use CaseMap and all our tools and UCLA School of Law professor, Dr. David Binder will present the compelling topic, “What Are You Trying to Prove?” As an added bonus, Shannon Bales of Munger, Tolles & Olson will share how litigation teams use technology at the United Nations War Crime Tribunals at The Hague and Cambodia.

All of this—knowledgeable presenters, 6 CLE credits, breakfast, lunch and a cocktail reception for only $345.

Contact Nancy Smith directly to take advantage of the multiple registrations offer. Please email nancy.smith@lexisnexis.com for additional details and to register.

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Announcing a New Tool for Collaboration—CaseMap® Report Publishers

Collaboration according to the Encarta Thesaurus also translates to teamwork, partnership, group effort and relationship. We all know that collaboration can be one of the hardest tasks to accomplish through the life of a matter.

Although litigators tell us that the process for sharing information across teams and with corporate clients needs improvement, their suggestions for improving collaboration vary. Some indicate greater uniformity or a central repository is needed while others feel better or more communication or additional training would be helpful.

We know from our experience that CaseMap is often used when attorneys need to collaborate with others. However, in most situations, attorneys share information via everyday office tools such as email and Microsoft® Office. They rarely use specially designed collaboration tools.

Well, help has arrived! LexisNexis CaseMap is pleased to introduce the CaseMap® Report Publisher, the simplest path you’ll ever take towards collaboration! Finally, an easy, automated way to:

Impress clients
Keep the ultimate client informed
Keep the entire trial team informed
Provide a virtually effortless reporting system for litigation support specialists and paralegals that will impress organization management

How Does It Work?

The CaseMap Report Publisher can generate, publish and regularly update Web pages containing case analysis reports from CaseMap on a schedule of your choosing. You can view a sample here.

Web pages can be used as is to create a case-specific extranet or intranet site or to dramatically enhance preexisting extranet or intranet sites. The CaseMap Report Publisher is based around setting up report publishing and distributing "jobs."

When you set up a CaseMap Report Publisher job you . . .

Decide when the jobs should run ... daily, weekly, every X week, etc. ... the data will automatically publish whatever frequency you set.

Decide whether to output a Web site or send a series of reports by email.

Associate the job with a CaseMap case database and a ReportBook within it—the ReportBook defines the series of reports that the Reporter will publish on the designated schedule.

Use one of the default ReportBooks that are in every CaseMap case as the basis of your CaseMap Reporter Publisher job or customize a default ReportBook or create a ReportBook of your own design from scratch. We’ll provide CaseMap Report Publisher clients with ReportBooks containing a series of What's New Reports tied to the CaseMap Report Publisher schedules.

Once you've set up these few parameters, the CaseMap Report Publisher takes over and generates the reporting automatically. This is an excellent way for corporate counsel to have instant access to reports.

Reports and your intranet/extranet site can be branded with your firm’s identity.

If you already have case-specific Web sites, the material the CaseMap Report Publisher generates can be added to them within a matter of minutes.

Just add a quick link from the existing intranet/extranet to the table of contents the CaseMap Report Publisher generates for you.

Set the link once and forget it ... the updated information will publish to the intranet/extranet with no need for additional updates to the overall site.

There's no meaningful limit to the number of reports a single job can be set to publish.

And, there's no limit to the number of independent publishing jobs the CaseMap Report Publisher can be set up to run automatically.

Each time the CaseMap Report Publisher generates Web site updates, it can also email selected recipients—your clients and trial team—a link to the site and an alert that the case analysis information at the extranet or intranet site has been updated.

What if you don’t want create a case-specific extranet or intranet site? You can easily use the CaseMap Report Publisher to generate a set of PDF case analysis reports and email updated versions of them to selected trial team recipients on a scheduled basis.

What’s the Learning Curve?

For corporate counsel, senior trial team members, expert witnesses and other consumers of CaseMap Report Publisher, there's essentially nothing to learn. That's part of the beauty of the CaseMap Report Publisher.

For paralegals and litigation support specialists managing CaseMap Report Publisher, we'll provide not only our great support, but also Webinars that teach you how to set up and edit jobs. A 20 minute Webinar should cover the entire job creation training process as well as provide tips and tricks for getting the most out of the tool.

The CaseMap Report Publisher is a great way to leverage your organization's investment in CaseMap. It makes entirely new types of case analysis reporting possible. The CaseMap Report Publisher requires CaseMap, but is sold separately from it.

The CaseMap Report Publisher will be available April 30th. We’d love to hear your comments and of course, we’d like to see each and every one of you take the easy path to “collaboration”. One last thing, even you folks who haven’t upgraded in awhile can use the CaseMap Report Publisher—its compatible all the way back with version CaseMap 5!

Please contact us at info@casesoft.com for more information.

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New! Paralegal Certification Classes via the Web

The LexisNexis Case Analysis Consulting Group has added a new certification course for paralegals. Our CaseMap Paralegal Certification course is an eight-hour class that's broken into four live Webinars conducted over two days. The course will help you get the most out of our flagship case analysis tool. Each class is limited to 12 attendees so class members can ask questions and interact.

Each class is held as four two-hour Webinars conducted over two days.
Sessions run from 12 – 2 ET and from 3:30 - 5:30 ET each day.
The course is being offered on:
May 30/31, June 12/1, June 19/20 and June 27/28.

The fee for "CaseMap 201" is $245 per seat.

Upon completion of the course, you will receive a Certificate of Completion.

Here are some examples of the many things you'll learn as you become certified in CaseMap:

Using the CaseMap PDF Bulk Importer to jumpstart the creation of document indexes.
Batch bates stamping PDFs and using these bates stamps to automatically fill in the Beginning Bates #, Ending Bates #, and # of Pages fields in CaseMap.
How to easily cull valuable case data from Adobe® PDF's and depositions transcripts and organize it in CaseMap.
How to customize CaseMap reports and ReportBooks.
How to customize CaseMap spreadsheets.
How to run searches.

Seating for this class is limited, and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. To enroll or get your questions answered, please contact Linda Walter at linda.walter@lexisnexis.com or (904) 273-5000 extension 228.

Training/Consulting at Your Offices: In addition to offering live Webinars like the Paralegal Certification session, we can also conduct fee-based training and case assessment consulting sessions at your offices. To learn more about these options, please email Julie Parker, Manager of the Case Analysis Consulting Group, at julie.parker@lexisnexis.com.

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Free Webinar from an Expert in the Field of Investigation

We are very pleased to have collaborated with the eminent expert in the field of Investigation William (Bill) Branscum. This informative Webinar was taped live and is now available at our Webex center for viewing at your convenience. You can view the Webinar here.

Bill Branscum is a licensed private investigator and owner of Oracle International, an investigative agency. Bill established his career as a Special Agent for the U. S. Department of the Treasury. Oracle International focuses primarily upon financial cases involving; securities issues, asset analyses, collections, corporate research and international scams and frauds.

Bill has investigated a number of high profile cases including the DiBruno Family that resulted in bringing down an entire family of con artists that extracted millions of dollars from their victims over many years through fraud and scams. In this Webinar, Bill discusses how he uses CaseMap and TimeMap to successfully investigate and settle cases for his clients. For further information, here is a link to Bill’s Web site and an article he penned about using CaseMap and TimeMap.

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