FYI for January 2008

We hope your new year has gotten off to a fantastic start. With the release of TextMap 4 and LegalTech® New York just around the corner, we’re certainly beginning 2008 with a bang.

Finding just the right words during litigation has never been faster or easier—introducing TextMap® 4

With the launch of TextMap 4, the industry’s most flexible, effective and affordable transcript tool is back and better than ever.

Tighter integration with CaseMap® and enhanced reporting options make it even easier to search, annotate, summarize and share your transcripts. These new reports make it amazingly simple to create practical and polished output based on your analysis of depositions and trial transcripts.

In this month’s Client FYI, we’ll be providing examples of some of these new reporting options:

Word Index Option
When electronic deposition or trial transcripts are imported into TextMap, each word is indexed so you can quickly find where any word of interest that appears across all transcripts in a case. In TextMap 4, the Word Index TextMap creates can be printed or saved as a PDF and used when you’re not using TextMap itself.

Most other transcript summary software products only support printing an index for one transcript at a time. TextMap 4 will permit you to generate word indexes that cover multiple transcripts in a single index.

View a sample word index that’s been associated with a condensed transcript (four transcript pages to a single printed page).

Footnote & End-Note Reports
Now you can produce two entirely new types of reports that show your annotations and notes along with the complete deposition transcript. As the names of these reports suggest, the Footnote Report places notes at the bottom of transcript pages and the End-Notes Report places notes at the back of the transcript. One extra click and these reports can include a Word Index.

When you use the TextMap built-in PDF writer (which doesn’t require an Acrobat® license) to generate these reports, TextMap adds extra functionality to the PDF. For example, in the End-Notes Report, TextMap creates links between each annotation and the associated End Note. TextMap also creates links from the Word Index to the pages on which each word in the index appears.

Here are sample Footnote and End-Note Reports.

Issue Coding
A brand new feature of TextMap 4 empowers users to import an issue outline from a corresponding CaseMap case file.

Once the deposition has been marked up, TextMap can be used to capture their annotations and related thoughts so everyone on the trial team can share the knowledge. As with other TextMap 4 reports, one extra mouse click and a Word Index can be added to the Note-Taking Report.

Follow this link to see a sample Note-Taking Report.

ReportBooks
We’re taking the ReportBook concept we introduced in CaseMap and adding it to TextMap 4. A ReportBook is a series of case reports with such optional polishing items as a cover page, table of contents, introduction, confidentiality statement and separator pages between reports.

In TextMap 4, a handful of mouse clicks can generate a ReportBook that includes reports of any given style for any number of transcripts. They can be based on full-sized transcripts, condensed transcripts, Annotation Digests, Footnote/End-Note Reports, Note-Taking Reports and other options. It can even include a single Word Index that references all included depositions.

Click to see a sample TextMap 4 ReportBook.

Not yet a subscriber?
Download TextMap 4 or contact your sales representative for more information at casemap.sales@lexisnexis.com.  

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Let’s Talk LegalTech® 2008

Going to LegalTech New York? Be sure to stop by the LexisNexis® Litigation Services booth to see true innovation and integration in action.

Put together all the pieces of the litigation puzzle
Of course we’ll be there demonstrating TextMap 4—as well as the latest effort-saving CaseMap® features and functionality. However, the star of the show will be the new hands-on 3-step Discovery Services Integration Station.

There you’ll learn to harness the power of LAW PreDiscovery™, Concordance® and CaseMap  to seamlessly bring together litigation document management and case analysis during discovery.

Here’s a sneak peek:

Step 1: Process & Preview Data
Scan/process paper documents and electronic files
LAW PreDiscovery puts the power of professional paper and electronic processing in your hands. It then lets you cut cumbersome document sets down to size with simple, proprietary culling and deduplication features.

Step 2: Review Documents
Generate discovery repository
With your document set selected, it’s a snap to convert them to TIFF or PDF and create a Concordance database on the fly.

Now you can get to work reviewing, redacting and producing case documents—swiftly, securely and with absolute confidence.

Step 3: Issue & Fact Management
Enhance and advance case analysis efforts
Complete the picture by instantly sending any key facts, testimony or other vital issues uncovered during review to CaseMap. It’s the most efficient, effective way to manage and analyze any case.

Going to the LegalTech New York?
Download your LegalTech Tour Card
Discover cutting-edge tools, best practices and find out how you can win an iPod® touch!

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CaseMap® and Concordance® Pack a Powerful 1-2 Punch

KO the competition with more effective case analysis
Winning litigation strategies begin with successful case analysis and discovery management.

Find out how LexisNexis® has integrated two industry heavyweights—CaseMap and Concordance—to help bring these two critical processes together for more efficient and more effective case analysis.

Learn more about the integration of CaseMap and Concordance.

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Making the Case for Total Practice Solutions: Spence & Buckler, P.C. 

For the last two years, we’ve been talking a lot about LexisNexis® Total Practice Solutions. But how does that impact your daily life and workflow? What does that really mean for you and your firm?

For one successful attorney at Spence & Buckler, P.C., it’s meant an increase or nearly 15% in billable hours—and an almost 30% reduction in deposition and trial preparation time.

To find out how, check out the Spence & Buckler, P.C. Case Study.

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