Client FYI - Updates and Case Analysis Tips

FYI for February 2007

LexisNexis CaseSoft Client FYI February Contents

Successful CaseMap® 7 Release!
Coming Very Soon: Upgraded Versions of Send to CaseMap for Interwoven®, Hummingbird® and WORLDOX®
Training Opportunities at Your Place, Our Place or a Virtual Place
LexisNexis® Launches New Web Site for Legal Professionals
Announcing the first CaseMap Client User Summit—Take Advantage of Early Bird Enrollment Fees

We're happy to report that the release of CaseMap 7 has gone very smoothly. If you are eligible to upgrade, go download your new version! If you haven’t subscribed yet, you’re welcome to download and check it out at www.casesoft.com/casemap/cm7trial.

As always, if you are a current client please do not download CaseMap 7 without first consulting your Litigation Support specialist and please make sure you read all the critical warnings.

Last month we told you that the watchword for the latest version of CaseMap 7 is “integration.” We hope you’ve taken an opportunity to either download the new version or take a tour via the free webinar, What’s New in CaseMap 7, available at www.casesoft.com/webinar. Of course, we would be delighted to give you a personal tour—just contact your LexisNexis® CaseMap® representative or email us at tour@casesoft.com.

Acrobat® 8 Integration—Enhancements to Adobe Acrobat 8 are completely compatible with CaseMap 7. Our new CaseMap Acrobat Plug-in PLUS enables CaseMap 7 to recognize Acrobat 8 Bates Stamps and import them into CaseMap just like our own PDF Bates Stamper.

Enhanced CaseMap Acrobat Plug-In PLUS—We brought you the CaseMap PDF Bates Stamper in CaseMap 6. Now CaseMap 7 gives you enhanced tools to help you find specific Bates-numbered pages, filter to limit your spreadsheet view to a range of documents, analyze your document index to identify potential problems in your Bates Number entries, synchronize Bates End/Pages fields and more.

LexisNexis Integrations—Integrations include, LexisNexis® Total Litigator with which you can access a world of information with a couple of mouse clicks from CaseMap. Find out more at litigator.lexisnexis.com/Litigator.

You can now send CourtLink® proceedings to CaseMap as an object or a fact and then link back to CourtLink. You’ll also want to check out the CourtLink integration to our TimeMap® timeline graphing tool. TimeMap clients can subscribe to CourtLink and send the dates and text from a selected set of proceedings to a TimeMap timeline, displaying them chronologically as Facts.

Note: TimeMap 4.1 is available for download at www.casesoft.com. You must have the latest version to utilize the CourtLink integration.

There are also new CaseMap and Total Litigator Navigation Enhancements and the Bulk Send to CaseMap Feature in CaseMap 7 has a new infrastructure that will allow other programs that have the Send to CaseMap feature to enable a Bulk Send to CaseMap wizard. The new Bulk Send to CaseMap wizard will allow you to define which fields and data are sent to CaseMap during the Bulk Send.

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Coming Very Soon: Upgraded Versions of Send to CaseMap for Interwoven, Hummingbird and WORLDOX

We’re very close to releasing enhanced versions of our Send to CaseMap plug-ins for Interwoven (iManage®), Hummingbird and WORLDOX DMS applications. New versions of the plug-ins for all three DMS applications should be available by April.

One major enhancement in these new versions is the addition of a Bulk Send to CaseMap feature that allows you to send multiple document links and their associated metadata into CaseMap from your DMS in one operation. Current versions of the DMS plug-in allow only one document to be linked at a time. This new feature takes advantage of support for bulk sends to CaseMap that was added as part of CaseMap 7. As such, you need CaseMap 7 installed to take advantage of this feature.

Another new batch operation will get the latest copies of all of the DMS documents that you have linked to your CaseMap case. The copies will be downloaded to you local computer in one simple step. The documents will then be available for you to open from CaseMap once you are out of the office and away from your DMS server.

Please contact your LexisNexis CaseMap Account Representative to learn more at sales@casesoft.com

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Training Opportunities at Your Place, Our Place or a Virtual Place

Our CaseMap Academy offers a multitude of training options for your staff or your firm. Perhaps you or your staff has attended training, but there maybe others in your firm that could benefit from one of our convenient options. We have onsite trainings or open enrollment classes at convenient locations in selected cities, you’re invited to visit us in sunny Florida or we present live, online training options.

Please contact us at 866.848.1137 to discuss any of these options or email info@casesoft.com.

CaseMap 201 and Support Training Certification (STC) ClassesThe latest schedule of our CaseMap 201 and Support Training Certification (STC) open enrollment classes will soon be available at our Web site for all of 2007. There’s a certification class for Litigation Support and IS professionals ($495 per seat) and a separate CaseMap 201 class for end users ($345 per seat). We offer $50 off classes that are booked 15 days in advance. The agendas are available on our Web site at www.casesoft.com/training. Here’s a look through April:

We’ll be in the following cities:

STC & 201 in Los Angeles—February 27 & 28
201 in Philadelphia—March 8
STC & 201 in Atlanta—March 13 & 14
STC & 201 in New York—March 21 & 22
STC & 201 in Washington, D.C.—April 11 & 12
STC & 201 in San Francisco—April 25 & 26

To book your all-day session, please contact Linda Walter at csa@casesoft.com or call 904.273.5000, ext. 228. Check out our Web site at www.casesoft.com/training/academy for more information.

CaseMap 201 Webinar
This live webinar covers the same material we teach in our open enrollment CaseSoft Academy classes. It’s conducted as four sessions held over two days (four two-hour sessions). The times for these webinars are 12:00 – 2:00 P.M. ET and 3:30 – 5:30 P.M. ET on both days.

The “CaseMap 201” webinars are $245 per seat. Book one of the following 2007 sessions soon. Seats are limited to twelve enrollees per class. Click to see a complete agenda

March 15 & 16
May 17 & 18
April 12 & 13
June 7 & 8
July 26 & 27
August 20 & 21
September 13 & 14
October 3 & 4
November 5 & 6
December 17 & 18

Please contact us at csa@casesoft.com or 904.273.5000 to book a seat.

Support/Training Certification Webinar Agenda
This live webinar covers the same material we teach in our open enrollment CaseSoft Academy classes. It’s conducted as four sessions held over two days (four two-hour sessions). The times for these webinars are 12:00 – 2:00 P.M. ET and 3:30 – 5:30 P.M. ET on both days.

The “CaseMap STC” webinars are $245 per seat. Book one of the following 2007 sessions soon. Seats are limited to twelve enrollees per class. Click to see a complete agenda

April 4 & 5
May 21 & 22
June 21 & 22
July 5 & 6
August 2 & 3
September 5 & 6
October 18 & 19
November 26 & 27

Please contact us at csa@casesoft.com or 904.273.5000 to book a seat.

Becoming a CaseMap Power User Webinar
This live webinar helps any end user get the very most out of our flagship case analysis tool. Class begins with running searches, using Research and Questions spreadsheets, reviews integrating CaseMap with other products, creating great work product, and much more.

This webinar course is conducted as four sessions held over two days (four two-hour sessions). The times for these webinars are 12:00 – 2:00 P.M. ET and 3:30 – 5:30 P.M. ET on both days.

The “Becoming a CaseMap Power User webinars are $245 per seat. Book one of the following 2007 sessions soon. Seats are limited to twelve enrollees per class. Click to see a complete agenda

March 29 & 30
May 30 & 31
July 9 & 10
September 17 & 18
October 29 & 30
December 3 & 4

Please contact us at csa@casesoft.com or 904.273.5000 to book a seat.

Early Case Assessment Consulting
Our expert consultants will work with your trial team and Litigation Support specialist to complete a full preparatory Early Case Assessment or Strategic Report Sizing on a new or existing case. We will obtain the complaint, answer and other existing key paperwork. Our experts will study the background material, conduct CourtLink, Total Litigator and lexis.com® research and set expectations. Once the preliminary assessment is complete we will work with the trial team to set the agenda and to review the case and research results.

At this point your consultant acts as moderator guiding the trial team. Your consultant will be a scribe quickly organizing material in CaseMap, and an educator showing your team how to take the ball forward utilizing Total Litigator’s Practice Solutions. By the time the session ends, we'll have worked with your trial team to create a detailed cast of characters, a multi-level issue outline and an initial fact chronology. The trial team will also have created a Case Summary ReportBook or other work product for their client. And they’ll have a plan in place for additional analysis.

Case Analysis Jump-start—If you need help getting a new case jump-started or an existing one organized in CaseMap, we can accommodate your needs in a one-day session that emulates the one-on-one trial team work we do in the Early Case Assessment Consulting. Our consultant will work with you to customize a day that meets your needs.

For more information and to arrange for an ECA consultation or jump-start, please contact Linda Walter at linda.walter@lexisnexis.com or call 904.273.5000, ext. 228.

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LexisNexis Launches New Web Site for Legal Professionals

LexisNexis has launched a new Web site, law.lexisnexis.com, that showcases its Total Practice Solutions for the full spectrum of law firms. The site offers attorneys targeted solutions for their practice in the areas of client development, research, practice management, and litigation services.

The new site, which serves the U.S. legal market, reflects the company’s growth from a research provider to now offering a full range of products and services that help law firms succeed in all areas of their practice—an approach called Total Practice Solutions.

The new U.S. Web site offers legal professionals a more intuitive path to finding LexisNexis solutions to meet their needs. Once visitors to the site identify their law firm type, they can easily see the LexisNexis solutions available to them. They can also view Research Solutions by top practice areas and jurisdictions. In addition, customer testimonials, case studies, and white papers are easily accessible to site visitors, to help bring real-life context to the site’s product information.

Select the solution line that suits you best to learn about Total Practice Advantage. You’ll have one-stop shopping for all the LexisNexis solutions that integrate with CaseMap and TimeMap.

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Announcing the first CaseMap Client User Summit

We are very excited to announce our first-ever CaseMap Client User Summit. This special one-day event is scheduled to take place in Los Angeles at the Biltmore Hotel on May 8, 2007. Plan to attend and learn how other firms are putting CaseMap, TimeMap and our other products to work.

The vast majority of User Summit sessions will be led by client users, not by the LexisNexis CaseMap staff. These client presenters will demonstrate how they’ve leveraged the use of our tools in their practice.

The conference will feature three parallel session tracks, permitting you to select topics of greatest interest to your practice. We’re working with client speakers to finalize session topics, but draft presentation titles include:

Using CaseMap to Drive the Discovery Process
Using CaseMap & Acrobat as Trial Presentation Tools
How I Use TimeMap Timelines to Win New Business
Using CaseMap in the Summary Judgment Process
Using ReportBooks to Impress Clients
Making the Most of TextMap & Its Many Reporting Options
Bates Stamping & Document Indexing Dos & Don’ts.
Integrating CaseMap with Concordance™, Hummingbird, Summation, WorkSite, Etc.
Three sessions: 60 Tips in 60 Minutes for Litigators, Paralegals and Litigation Support Specialists

Full conference details will appear in next month’s Client FYI email. Fees for the all-day event are $395 per attendee with an early-bird discount of $50 off if you enroll by March 30. Next month’s Client FYI email will include a link to enroll, but should you have any questions or want to pre-register before then, don’t hesitate to contact us at info@casesoft.com.

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