FYI for October 2006

TextMap® 3 has been released! You can download the important new release of our transcript summary tool today. This new, completely freestanding application can be used to annotate and summarize transcripts even if you don’t have CaseMap®.

As a part of our ongoing series to introduce you to the LexisNexis® Litigation Services Total Practice Solutions, we’ll talk this month about the intuitive platform, LexisNexis® Total Litigator, that organizes critical products, services and content mapped to the way litigators think and work—according to the litigation process itself.

Join Adobe® and LexisNexis® CaseMap representatives for a free e-seminar covering the new features in Acrobat® 8. You’ll have two chances to attend; sign up below.

The "Awards Season" is upon us again! For the past three years many of our clients have cast their votes for us in the Law Technology News (LTN) annual Vendor Awards. Read how you can vote for us this year in a number of the Vendor Award categories and make it another "winning season"!

TextMap 3: Major New Version of Our Transcript Summary Tool is Now Here!

We’re pleased to announce the release of TextMap 3, an important new version of our award-winning transcript summary tool. Download a trial version of TextMap 3. To see what’s new click here and to view an informative Webinar click here.

Attention Current TextMap Users: We will contact you with regards to upgrade pricing and conversion processes. Those covered by our Extended Maintenance/Subscription plans will receive TextMap 3 at no additional charge. Again, we will contact you with details soon.

What’s New in TextMap 3

While TextMap 3 offers many new features, including an updated Microsoft® Outlook®-based user interface, we feel the following new features are the big three:

Freestanding Tool

Current versions of TextMap are designed to work with our CaseMap case analysis tool, not independently. In contrast, TextMap 3 is a completely freestanding application that can be used to annotate and summarize transcripts even if you don’t have CaseMap.

TextMap 3 certainly includes the Send to CaseMap functionality that’s found in TextMap 2, Adobe® Acrobat® and dozens of other tools. It’s just that TextMap 3 now makes in possible to create a quick depo summary even if you don’t have CaseMap at all or if you have CaseMap but want to summarize first and send to CaseMap later.

Enhanced Annotation & Annotation Reporting Functionality

TextMap 3 supports the annotation of transcript chunks and the addition of notes regarding each annotation. TextMap already makes it a cinch to create paper and PDF versions of many transcript-based reports, for example, handy search reports (showing only those sections of transcripts where a word or phrase appears) and condensed transcript reports (where four transcript pages appear on one printed/PDFed page). TextMap 3 introduces new reporting functionality that makes it easy to print or PDF reports based on your annotations and notes.

Enhanced Importing From & Exporting To Concordance™ & LiveNote

TextMap 3 makes it easy to import transcripts and associated annotations from LiveNote and Concordance. Similarly, it will be easy to export transcripts and annotations from TextMap and send them to these other tools.

What’s Not Changed About TextMap?

While we worked hard to enhance TextMap, we’re also proud of two things that are not changing in the new version.

Incredible Simplicity

Why has TextMap won the TechnoLawyer transcript summary award for the past two years? While we’re sure a number of factors are at work, we suspect the leading reason is that TextMap is so easy to learn and use. Even software power users can benefit from the clean, elegant design.

We’ve consciously chosen not to try and cram TextMap 3 full of every last possible exotic feature. Rather, we’re trying to hit the sweet spot—providing 100% of the features you would use regularly without adding ones that overcomplicate the tool or make our development costs so high as to require charging a far higher price. We hope you’ll feel that we’ve succeeded.

While TextMap 3 may not have every power-user feature imaginable, it’s important for you to know that a great many clients have already abandoned more complex transcript summary solutions in favor of TextMap 2, our current version.

Incredible Value

TextMap is currently less than 25% (1/4) of the cost of competing transcript summary offerings. While we haven’t finalized pricing for TextMap 3, we can guarantee that the new version won’t result in any significant pricing changes.

Why not equip four staff members with TextMap for the same $$ as just equipping yourself with some other tool?

We Hope You’ll Love TextMap 3!

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Award-Winning LexisNexis Total Litigator, Now Linked to CaseMap

What do you need to do today? Gather intelligence on a prospective client or witness? Draft a motion to dismiss? Plan electronic discovery for an ongoing case? With single-point access to an unmatched portfolio of litigation content and tools, LexisNexis Total Litigator can help you accomplish those tasks and more—faster and more efficiently than ever before.

Total Litigator represents a dynamic new approach designed to enhance attorney productivity and maximize your firm’s return on its research investment. You can use it to find vital information faster, manage and analyze it all in one place and keep a competitive edge throughout the litigation process. It’s also the first and only tool ever endorsed by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA®) as "the best option for litigators." Total Litigator also won Favorite New Legal Product from TechnoLawyer readers in 2005.

To see why other leading litigators have called Total Litigator the best solution available today and to see how it can help enhance your effectiveness, call 800-543-6862 to arrange a short demonstration. Or, check out Total Litigator for yourself at www.totallitigator.com.

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Adobe® Acrobat® 8 e-Seminars – See the Very Latest Acrobat Legal Technology

We shared with you last month the good news that Adobe Systems has just released Acrobat 8, an important new version that’s jam-packed with new features. We promised to share some of those features with you, and even better, we’d like to invite you to two free e-seminars we’re hosting with Acrobat so you can get a look at the features in action.

Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional e-Seminar

Friday, 11/3 at 11am PT/1pm CST
Friday, 11/10 at 11am PT/1pm CST

Register Here >>

Join Adobe and LexisNexis CaseMap representatives for a free, informative, 1-hour e-seminar to learn about the new Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional.

In this educational seminar you will . . .

• Learn how to securely redact both electronic and image-only PDFs
• Use the Examine Document Tool to Quickly Remove Hidden Metadata, Text, and Image Data
• Discover more accurate and faster OCR tools
• Activate features for Free Adobe Reader users including Saving Form Data
• Use new built-in Bates Numbering
• Assemble a Compressed Package of Documents (Word, Excel®, PDF, etc.) for fast & easy distribution
• Create, Distribute and Collect Data from PDF Forms
• Take part in a Shared Review for multi-party commenting on PDFs
• Archive e-mail from Outlook and Lotus® Notes into PDF Packages

Register Here >>

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"Secret" Features of Adobe Acrobat

We also shared with you last month the bad news about Acrobat 8 and CaseMap. The bad news is that we’ve been working with a pre-release version of Acrobat 8 and have discovered that changes in the new version break some of the existing integration between CaseMap and Acrobat. We’re evaluating what’s changed and we’re developing fixes, but as the final version of Acrobat 8 has just been released, it’s going to take us a good many weeks to complete the analysis and related coding.

Until further notice, please do NOT install Acrobat 8 if you use CaseMap integration features with Acrobat. We’ll provide an update on our headway creating new versions of our Acrobat Plug-ins in next month’s Client FYI.

In the meantime—Are you familiar with these great Acrobat 7 features?

Find – Acrobat 7 offers a Find dialog box that lets you locate terms of interest in any PDF that contains text. Pressing CTRL+F displays the Find dialog box.

Search – The Acrobat Search feature is similar to its Find function but more powerful in that Searching generates a list of all locations where a term appears in a document or—get this—in an entire series of PDFs. Display the Search panel by selecting Search on the Acrobat Edit menu or by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+F.

Recognize Text Using OCR – Acrobat Standard and Professional offer Optical Character Recognition capability. When you receive a PDF that contains only images, you can OCR it to make it searchable. In Acrobat 7, the OCR option is called Recognize Text Using OCR. You’ll find it on Acrobat’s Document menu.

Full Screen – Use Acrobat as a presentation tool. Display a PDF in Full Screen mode by selecting Full Screen on the View menu or pressing CTRL+L. Once in Full Screen mode, use arrow keys to navigate forwards and backwards through the document. To leave Full Screen mode, press ESC.

Multiple Pages Per Sheet – Acrobat lets you print multiple document pages on a single sheet of paper, similar to the condensed printing option offered by our TextMap transcript summary tool. To print two or more document pages per printed page, select the Multiple Pages Per Sheet option that appears in the Page Scaling box on the Acrobat Print dialog box.

Showing and Printing Comment Summaries – One of the great features of Acrobat is the ability to mark up documents with numerous types of comments . . . stamps, notes, highlights, etc. Did you know that Acrobat offers easy ways to view a summary of comments when working with a PDF and also when printing? Take a minute to explore the following options on Acrobat's Comments menu: To display a summary of the comments in a PDF, select Show Comments List. To sort and filter the comments that display, use the Show Comments & Markups option. And to use one of four different methods for printing your comments, select the Print with Comment Summary option.

Acrobat/CaseMap Integration
Are you familiar with the links between CaseMap and Acrobat?

Send to CaseMap – Our "Send to CaseMap" plug-in for Acrobat can be used with Adobe Reader as well as with the Standard and Professional versions of Acrobat. The "Send to CaseMap" plug-in lets you cull critical passages from PDFs and instantly creates new facts in CaseMap based on them. One click on the fact in CaseMap reopens the PDF and takes you back to the page from which the fact was sent.

Click to view a brief online tutorial on the "Send to CaseMap" plug-in for Acrobat

The CaseMap PDF Bulk Importer – This utility automatically creates records in your CaseMap document index for each PDF in a folder. For example, let’s say you have PDFs of 1,000 discovery documents in a folder. Point the PDF Bulk Importer utility at this folder and it adds 1,000 records to your CaseMap document index filling in the Full Name and linking each record to the PDF it represents so that the PDF can later be opened in one click from inside CaseMap.

Click to view a 10-minute tutorial on the PDF Bulk Importer

Learning More . . .
Would you like to learn more about Acrobat or about the tight integration between CaseMap and Acrobat?

You’ll find three online tutorials on Acrobat by David Masters, Esq., author of The Lawyer’s Guide to Adobe Acrobat, at the CaseSoft Webinar Center. You’ll also find three sessions that review CaseMap/Acrobat integration.

Click to visit the CaseSoft Webinar Center

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Are you a Law Technology News (LTN) Subscriber?

The “Awards Season” is upon us again! For the past three years many of our clients have cast their votes for us in the Law Technology News (LTN) annual Vendor Awards. You must be a subscriber to vote—find out below how to subscribe free. The editors of LTN asked the publication’s more than 40,000 subscribers to select products and vendors that represented outstanding achievement in legal technology in 14 award categories.

At CaseSoft, we are very proud to have been selected as a winner and finalist for the past two years. We couldn’t have garnered that honor if it weren’t for our client’s votes. We would very greatly appreciate it if you would take the time to vote for us this year in a number of the Vendor Award categories and make it another “winning season”!

VERY IMPORTANT: You must be a subscriber of Law Technology News to vote, but you can subscribe online for free. It’s easy, just go to:

http://www.lawtechnews.com/r5/contest.asp?contest_id=70&action=enter 

Simply click the link below and click on the Vendor Awards Ballot link on the left-hand side. As the voting is time-sensitive, it would be very helpful if you would do so today, or as soon as possible.

http://courtlink.lexisnexismail.com/cgi-bin8/DM/y/nhB40IG3ra0IQL0BKIC0EU 

Here are our requests for your consideration as they are numbered on the ballot:

1. Case/Practice Management Software (over 50 attorneys)
Product: CaseMap; Company: LexisNexis CaseMap

2. Case/Practice Management Software (under 50 attorneys)
Product: CaseMap; Company: LexisNexis CaseMap

7. Knowledge Management System
Product: CaseMap; Company: LexisNexis CaseMap

8. Litigation Support Software
Product: CaseMap; Company: LexisNexis CaseMap

9. Litigation Support Service/Consultant
Company: LexisNexis CaseMap

13. Trial Presentation Software
Product: TimeMap; Company: LexisNexis CaseMap

14. Product of the Year 2006
Product: CaseMap; Company: LexisNexis CaseMap

We haven’t presented a rationale for voting for us in each category listed above. We’re assuming anyone willing to vote for us will understand and agree with the request based on their own firsthand experience.

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New CaseMap Training Option

Every license of CaseMap includes a no-charge one-hour training session with one of our professional trainers. The one-on-one training conducted over the phone lasts approximately one hour. We have a number of training slots available each workday, but our trainers' schedules are typically booked two or more weeks in advance. There is no charge for this session, but we do ask that you call us for the training and pay the cost of the call.

Now we have a second option. You can register to attend our weekly live CaseMap Fundamentals Training Webinar. This session is conducted by members of our Training Team and lasts about an hour. You will be able to ask questions for a limited amount of time at the end of the session. This is a group session limited to 15 enrollees on a first come first served basis. This option is also free and all you have to do is visit http://courtlink.lexisnexismail.com/cgi-bin8/DM/y/nhB40IG3ra0IQL0Bavz0EW to enroll.

We are also soon going to be offering weekly TextMap Fundamentals Training Webinars that you can register for at the same location.

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