We're pleased to announce the release of TextMap 2, an important new version of our transcript summary utility that works hand-in-hand with CaseMap.  TextMap 2 features cross-transcript searching, built-in PDF reporting, condensed transcript printing, and much more.

Have you taken one or more of our free Ten-Minute Tutorials?  These brief webinars provide quick reviews of basic and advanced features of all products.  And have you had our CaseSoft Academy training staff at your offices?  They've conducted in-person training in the Netherlands, Scotland, and Tanzania.  Why not for you too?

We're holding two more of our Paralegal and Legal Assistant Certification webinars later this month.

Please read on for details on these and other topics.

1. Ten-Minute Tutorials -- Available 24/7

We're posting new content at our Webinar Center every week.  Many of the new sessions are Ten-Minute Tutorials -- brief trainings on a specific product feature and its benefits.  Introductory, intermediate, and advanced topics are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Examples of new Ten-Minute Tutorials:

DepPrep in 10 Minutes --  Attorney David Hirsch, the author of the material in our DepPrep witness preparation tool, explains how DepPrep can be put to work.

What's New in TextMap 2 -- A visual and verbal overview of the many enhanced features in the brand new version of our TextMap transcript summary tool.

Integrating Acrobat & CaseMap 101 -- An introduction to the numerous ways CaseMap and Acrobat can be linked.  There's a 201 session too.

Click to view our library of Ten Minute Tutorials

2. Dramatically Enhanced Transcript Summary Tool Released

We're pleased to announce the release of TextMap 2, the important new version of our award-winning transcript summary tool that works with CaseMap. 

TextMap 2 is just $149 per user license. 

A full-featured trial version of TextMap 2 is now available at www.casesoft.com.

You can also view a Ten-Minute Tutorial webinar that shows TextMap 2 in action.

Click to view What's New in TextMap 2 Ten-Minute Tutorial

3. What's New in TextMap 2

Here are the most important new features in TextMap 2:

Cross-Transcript Searching

TextMap 2 includes new searching functionality that instantly displays a list of the page/line locations where a word or phrase appears in all case transcripts.  When electronic transcripts are imported into TextMap 2, each word is indexed and added to a word list that appears by default in the Word Search task pane on the right side of the TextMap 2 window.

Built-in PDF Capabilities

TextMap 2 features built-in PDFing like that in CaseMap 5.  Rather than printing TextMap reports, you can create PDFs of them without the need for a full Acrobat license.  There's even a "Print to PDF and Email" option that creates a PDF of a TextMap report and automatically attaches it to an email that's ready to send.

Transcript Highlight Reports

TextMap makes it easy to cull key testimony from transcripts and organize it in CaseMap.  We call the text selections that are sent to CaseMap "highlights" in that they remain highlighted in the transcript for easy identification.  TextMap 2 includes a new Transcript Highlight Report that prints the transcript segments you've sent to CaseMap in the order in which they appear within the source deposition or examination.  Printed below each transcript text selection are the associated fact fields from CaseMap, e.g., Date & Time, Fact Text, Source, Linked Issues.

Click to view a Transcript Highlights Report generated as a PDF directly from TextMap 2 

Search Results Reports

Anytime you conduct a word or phrase search in TextMap 2, two mouse clicks create a printed or PDF report of the search results.  A Search Report lists all word/phrase hits across all transcripts.  For each hit, the transcript name and page/line reference is displayed and followed by the search word displayed in context -- 12 lines of transcript appear above the word hit and 12 lines of transcript appear below.           

Click to view a Search Results Report generated as a PDF directly from TextMap 2 

Condensed Transcript Printing

Two clicks in TextMap 2 and any transcript can be printed or PDFed as either full-sized pages or with "condensed" pages where four transcript pages are placed on a single output page.

Click to view a Condensed Transcript generated as a PDF directly from TextMap 2

Replication & Synchronization

TextMap 2 includes new replication & synchronization features.  You can make a replica of a TextMap file, work in the replica as you travel, e.g., add new transcripts to it and send new transcript highlights to CaseMap, and then meld these additions and edits back into the master TextMap file via synchronization.

"Send-to-CaseMap" Functionality

The key feature of TextMap remains the ability to cull critical passages from transcripts and send them to a CaseMap file where they can be organized.  You can use the Send to CaseMap features of TextMap both to create new facts in CaseMap and to append new sources to existing facts.

The best way to see these features in action is to download the full-featured trial version of TextMap 2 available using this link:

Click to download TextMap 2

5. CaseSoft Academy Training in Your Offices

Our CaseSoft Academy staff has conducted in-person training in the Netherlands, Scotland, and Tanzania.  Why not have us visit your offices to do the same?  A day of training can be divided into a number of high-impact sessions.

In-person training is $900 a day plus expenses.  However, if you schedule a day of training for Q1 of 2005 by 12/31/04, we'll provide the training at $600 plus expenses.  To schedule a session or learn more about our in-person training offerings, please contact your CaseSoft Account Representative or write csa@casesoft.com. 

Paralegals and legal assistants:  We have two special webinars coming up for you in the final week of 2004.  Would you like to be certified in using CaseMap for document indexing or to just learn more about CaseMap's document indexing features?  Similarly, would you like to be certified in our TimeMap timeline graphing tool?

If so, please attend either one or both of our no-charge Certification webinars on Tuesday, December 28.  The 60-minute TimeMap Certification session starts at 1:00 p.m. ET and the 60-minute CaseMap Document Indexing Certification session starts at 4:00 p.m. ET.

Click to register for a Certification Webinar

To become CaseMap Document Indexing Certified, you will need to attend the upcoming webinar and also read our article entitled "The Bell Curve & Document Indexing." 

To become TimeMap Certified, you will need to attend the upcoming TimeMap webinar and also read our article entitled "Timelines: They're Not Just for Trial Anymore."

You're welcome to read the required article in advance of attending the webinar.

Click to view "The Bell Curve & Document Indexing"

Click to view "Timelines: They're Not Just for Trial Anymore"

If you have any questions about these webinars, please contact us at support@casesoft.com or 904.273.5000.

Click to view sample ReportBook

"I've found CaseMap 5's new ReportBook feature to be of great benefit in unexpected ways. I've used it for a number of cases already.

"It took just a moment to create an impressive title page and to do a brief edit of the default introduction page to add an overview of the status of the case.  From that point on, everyone responded with ideas and missing information. On a weekly basis, I emailed them updated PDF ReportBooks, including a report on what was new (one of the standard CaseMap saved reports).

"Throughout the process, everyone involved commented on my thoroughness and the usefulness of the ReportBooks. I prepared them with very little effort, but received far more attention than if I had not used this feature.

"Thanks in no small part to the communication fostered by my ReportBooks, the mediation went very well. As a side note, I should mention that I gave the mediator a TimeMap report of key dates. I noticed that he kept referring to it throughout the mediation."