FYI for November 2007

This will be the last edition of our Client FYI for 2007 and we’d like to wish all of you, our valuable clients, a Happy Holiday season! It’s been a busy year with two new releases of CaseMap®, an upgrade of TimeMap® and the release of the new CaseMap Report Publisher. We also expanded our Case Analysis Consulting Group offerings to include more live Webinar training, including the Paralegal Certification course. View a full listing of available training courses. 

We also introduced the Case Assessment & Analysis Resource Center that is chock-full of LexisNexis® product trial downloads, links to best practices Webinars and new case studies and white papers from clients just like you. We hope you will bookmark www.lexisnexis.com/bestpathforward and visit it often as we regularly update the site.

When we return in 2008 we will have important information regarding the release of TextMap® 4. This important new update of our award-winning transcript summary program has been delayed until January to enable us to add even more functionality.

Last but not least, if you haven’t upgraded to CaseMap 7 or 7.5, this is your last chance to take advantage of low subscription pricing. Thousands of CaseMap clients have already locked in upgrades and support at very special pricing. The special pricing expires at the end of 2007. You still have the opportunity to take advantage of significant discounts on the upgrade package, but only if you act by December 31, 2007.

If you would like to review information we’ve presented in the Client FYI this past year, please view archived copies of all our newsletters.

FREE Fall Webinar Series:  Getting Ahead of Discovery through Strategic Case Assessment & Analysis (CLE credit available)

Recent changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and rapidly evolving case law make it very clear that attorneys and their clients need to anticipate and assess discovery-related issues earlier—prior to the start of formal discovery—and re-evaluate them on an on-going basis.

Please join us by registering for our exclusive two-part Webinar series exploring how litigators can successfully get ahead of critical discovery issues by employing practical case assessment and analysis processes and best practices
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Getting Ahead of Discovery: Session 1
November 29, 2:00 – 3:00 P.M. EST
Presented by Rachelle DeGregory,
Director, LexisNexis Litigation Industry Relations
Find out how employing a formal case assessment and analysis strategy will enable parties to quickly identify, locate and better evaluate discovery documents. It will also empower counsel to engage in better-informed discussions regarding production, burden and preservation issues, and cost-shifting.

1 CLE Credit will be available for this event in approved jurisdictions.

Getting Ahead of Discovery: Session 2
December 13, 2:00. – 3:00 P.M. EST
Presented by Michael F. Kelleher
Folger Levin & Kahn LLP, San Francisco, CA
Hear directly from top U.S. litigator Michael Kelleher as he shares his approach for gaining a real strategic advantage during discovery through a formalized approach to case analysis and assessment. Learn proven techniques and best practices, as well as the tools and technologies he utilizes to assist him.

1 CLE Credit will be available for this event in approved jurisdictions.

While visiting this site to register for these two new live Webinars you can also view the recorded Webinars in this series, for free:  Investigating the Key Players in Your Case  and Harnessing the Power of LexisNexis Briefs, Pleadings and Motions .

Litigation success depends on making the right decisions about the best way to proceed in any case. Only LexisNexis® delivers a powerful, unprecedented suite of Case Assessment & Analysis Solutions that can help you map out your most successful litigation strategies.

For more information, including expert white papers, online demos and complimentary product trials, visit www.lexisnexis.com/bestpathforward. 

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Important New Release of TextMap®—Version 4

TextMap 4 features tight integration with our flagship CaseMap® case analysis tool. However, TextMap 4 can also be used completely independently of CaseMap by trial team members focused on searching and summarizing depositions and trial transcripts.

TextMap 4 will offer numerous new features—a great many related to enhanced reporting options. Most of the new reporting options won’t be found in other transcript summary products. These new reports make it amazingly easy to create practical and polished output based on your analysis of depositions and trial transcripts.

In just minutes, even a first-time user can be up and searching multiple transcripts, using powerful keyword search features, culling key facts and producing invaluable summary reports.

Simple, functional features for TextMap include:

• Unique footnote and endnote reports
• Unique deposition note-taking reports
• Unique ReportBooks compiling multiple reports into one polished work product
• Unique cross-transcript Word Indexes that can be published  stand-alone or combined with other reports
• Unique Send Annotations to Word feature—makes briefs easier to create
• Issue-coding, Condensed Transcript Printing, Built-in PDF Writer, etc., etc., etc.!
• Works alone and also features tight integration with our CaseMap case analysis software
• TextMap also makes it easy to import a wide range of other transcript formats, including LiveNote® and Concordance®.

With costs 75% less than other transcript tools, firms large and small alike will benefit from the incredible power, simplicity and value of TextMap.

All current TextMap subscribers will receive TextMap 4 free. Download TextMap 3 or contact your sales representative for more information at casemap.sales@lexisnexis.com

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Synchronizing Concordance® and Summation® with CaseMap®

There is an important new feature in CaseMap 7 that we haven’t talked much about, but want to make sure you’re aware of it—the ability to synchronize document records in Concordance and now Summation with document records in CaseMap. 

This feature has a number of important aspects:

• You can send batches of records from Concordance or Summation to CaseMap at one time. For example, instantly create 5,000 records in CaseMap based on 5,000 key docs in Concordance or Summation

• The records created in CaseMap are automatically linked back to the sending record in Concordance or Summation

• You can map fields in Concordance/Summation to fields in CaseMap as part of the transfer. For example, move Bates Number info, Doc Date, Author, Recipient, Description and other field values from Concordance/Summation to CaseMap as part of the bulk send

• Most importantly, once records are created in CaseMap, you can later resend information from Concordance/Summation and changes to fields in Concordance/Summation will be made to the mapped fields in CaseMap. For example, let’s say you sent 5000 records from Concordance to CaseMap, but the paralegal team had yet to enter descriptions for all 5000 documents in Concordance. You could rerun the Send operation at a later point and any description values that had been added in Concordance since the original send would be moved into the linked record in CaseMap.

We believe this is a powerful new feature for those trial teams using Concordance or Summation with CaseMap and we would love the chance to show you the feature in action. Please write us at casemap.info@lexisnexis.com to set a time for a web-based demo.

Please watch a 10-minute prerecorded Webinar that demonstrates the new feature in action instead of having us give you a demonstration.

This new feature requires CaseMap 7 or higher (we’re up to CM7.5 at this time). The Bulk Send/Synchronize feature is built-in to the latest version of Concordance. And we have just begun selling a plug-in we’ve developed for both the regular and Enterprise versions of Summation.

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LexisNexis® Total Litigator Offers an Important Resource for Plaintiff Counsel with Vioxx Cases

The terms of the Vioxx settlement have plaintiffs seeking award for damages to petition individually and prove cause and damages utilizing their medical records. Plaintiff counsel attorneys who have Vioxx cases will need to have their clients’ medical records pulled and submitted to Merck for review before July 1, 2008. Total Litigator can be your resource to valuable information via the recently added medical record retrieval services.

Total Litigator offers quick and cost-effective access to medical-record retrieval from the two leading, online medical records providers—EMSI™ and MediConnect. This access is embedded within the workflow of the Total Litigator service. Anytime your case might hinge on getting quick access to patient medical records, you can rely on either provider to get you this critical case data. Why consume valuable staff time and resources hunting down medical records, when you can rely on Total Litigator and MediConnect or EMSI to do it for you?

Visit the Gather Intelligence tab within Total Litigator and then click on the Medical Record Retrieval link in the Additional Resources box to start your search.

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