Would you like to win a license for TextMap 2, a major new version of our transcript management utility that will soon be released?  We're giving away 20 TextMap 2 licenses to Client FYI readers this week.  Details on the drawing and on TextMap 2 appear below.

Have you read our new articles on issue analysis and document indexing?  You'll find links to PDF versions of these and other articles in this issue of CaseSoft FYI.

Paralegals and Legal Assistants: We've launched a new Listserv specifically to serve you.  We're also holding no-charge Document Index Certification Webinars this week.  Details on both below.

1. UN Oil-For-Food Investigation Standardizes on CaseMap/TimeMap

Do you subscribe to Law Technology News? If so, we would greatly appreciate any votes you cast on our behalf during the current Law Technology News Awards balloting.

There are a number of categories where you might logically vote for CaseMap/TimeMap, including Case/Practice Management Software, Litigation Support Software, Knowledge Management System, and Practice Tools.  CaseMap 5 might also be a great choice for Product of the Year 2004.

We would be gratified by your votes on our behalf in any of the categories you deem appropriate!

Law Technology News subscribers please click to vote

3. Weekly CaseMap/TimeMap Webinars

Next Wednesday, October 27 and Thursday, October 28 we'll be holding CaseMap overview webinars that we invite you to attend. In 45 minutes, we’ll give you a tour of our flagship case analysis tool. We’ll also demonstrate how CaseMap integrates with over a dozen other excellent litigation support products, including Adobe Acrobat. Even if you're a current CaseMap user, you may find this session a good recap of CaseMap basics.

Click to register for one of our upcoming webinars.

Starting in November, we'll be offering a CaseMap/TimeMap Overview Webinar every Wednesday at 1400 ET (-5 GMT) and a TimeMap Fundamentals session every Thursday at 1400 ET (-5 GMT).

If you need an easy way to get others at your organization familiar with CaseMap or TimeMap, please have them attend one of these no-charge sessions.

We're also working on a series of "Ten Minute Tutorials," brief prerecorded sessions on a host of training topics that you'll be able to review anytime you wish. These sessions will be available via the CaseSoft website starting the second week in November.

We've just launched a new Paralegal & Legal Assistant Listserv.  If you're a legal assistant or paralegal user of CaseMap or TimeMap, please join today -- we believe you'll find the listserv is a great way to get your questions answered and share ideas.

In addition to member-generated postings, we post a Tip of the Week and each month a paralegal or legal assistant power user posts a longer article for your consideration. Members of the Paralegal & Legal Assistant Listserv also receive advance notice of Certification webinars.

To join the listserv, please write Judy Herndon of our Support & Training staff at jherndon@casesoft.com.  Judy is managing the listserv and will arrange for you to be enrolled.

5. CaseMap Document Indexing Certification Webinars

Are you a paralegal or legal assistant who would like to receive certification in using CaseMap for document indexing or just learn more about CaseMap's document indexing features?  If so, please attend one of our no-charge Certification webinars coming up this Friday.

Sessions are scheduled for Friday, October 22 at 11:00 ET and again at 2:00 pm ET.  The 60-minute webinar reviews numerous topics including: When CaseMap provides a great document indexing solution and when it does not, how to link a CaseMap document index to PDF files and files of other types, and how Bates numbering can be automated.

Click to register for a Document Indexing Certification Webinar

To become CaseMap Document Index Certified you will need to attend the upcoming webinar and also read our article entitled "The Bell Curve & Document Indexing."  You're welcome to get this aspect of the certification process complete prior to attending the webinar.

Click to view The Bell Curve & Document Indexing

6. New CaseSoft White Papers

We’ve just completed a new article on how and why to create issue analysis memos for your cases.

Click to view a PDF version of Creating & Using Issue Analysis Memos

We’ve also recently finished the following article on using Adobe Acrobat with CaseMap to manage case documents.

Click to view a PDF version of The Bell Curve & Document Indexing/Imaging

Have you read our other articles on case analysis, e.g., "Chronology Best Practices," "Creating a Great Cast of Characters," and "Better Visuals Via Brainstorming"?

Click to review our many other think pieces and obtain PDF versions if desired

7. See You at the Technology For Lawyers Conference in Toronto?

8. Announcing TextMap 2 & TextMap License Drawing

We're hard at work on TextMap 2, an important new version of our award-winning transcript management utility that makes it easy to cull critical testimony from electronic transcripts and organize it in CaseMap.  TextMap 2 will offer dozens of new features, including dramatically enhanced searching across all case transcripts.  We expect to release TextMap 2 by the end of January 2005.  Additional details about the new features in TextMap will appear in the November Client FYI email.

Would you like to win a license for our TextMap transcript management utility and/or an upgrade to soon-to-be-released TextMap 2?

Already a TextMap 1 user?  You're eligible to win one of ten no-charge TextMap 2 Upgrades. Simply write Cindy Bosman of our Support & Training staff at cbosman@casesoft.com by end of day Friday, October 22 asking to be put in the hat for the free upgrade drawing.

Cindy Bosman of our Support & Training staff will be drawing the names of all twenty winners on Monday, October 25. She'll contact all winners by the end of next week.  She'll also send an update on the drawing results to those whose names weren't drawn.