FYI for September 2006

Preview the new features coming in an important new release of our transcript summary tool, TextMap^®. Set to release in late October, TextMap 3 will be a completely free standing application that can be used to annotate and summarize transcripts even if you don’t have CaseMap^®.

LexisNexis^® Time Matters^® has announced an important new version their software. TimeMatters 8 now has a Send To CaseMap feature.

The release of Acrobat^® 8 has been announced which brings good news and bad news for CaseMap users. Be sure to read our latest update below.

CaseMap will be joining Adobe^® Acrobat at a series of Educational Seminars that will introduce the latest in Acrobat technology to the legal community. Check out our calendar of cities to attend a forum near you.

Have you taken the free training session that is available to every CaseMap client? Or, could you never find the time to carve out an hour of your busy schedule to make an appointment? Starting this month we have a new training option available.

TextMap 3: Major New Version of Our Transcript Summary Tool is Coming Soon

We’re pleased to announce the upcoming release of LexisNexis^® TextMap 3, an important new version of our award-winning transcript summary tool.

TextMap 3 development work is all but complete. Testing, help authoring and the creation of training webinars are underway. Assuming things stay on schedule, we should be releasing TextMap 3 in about four weeks, at the end of October.

In October, we’ll also be offering a series of webinars so you can see TextMap 3 in action prior to the release—we’ll be sending you email updates as we confirm the dates.

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 MS Outlook-based user interface, we feel the following new features are the big three:

Free-Standing Tool

Current versions of TextMap are designed to work with our CaseMap case analysis tool, not independently. In contrast, TextMap 3 is a completely free standing 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 Going to Change About TextMap?

While we’re working hard to enhance TextMap, we’re also proud of two things that won’t be 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. Please also note that anyone who acquires TextMap 2 now will be eligible for a TextMap 3 Upgrade at no charge.

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

Please watch your in-boxes where we’ll be providing additional details on TextMap 3, including links to live webinars. We’ll also update the release schedule for you. We expect to be confirming a late October release.

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TimeMatters^® 8 – New Release Includes Send To CaseMap Feature

Last week LexisNexis announced the launch of Time Matters 8.0 and Billing Matters^® 8.0, the newest versions of the company’s award-winning practice management and billing software packages.

In this new version, Time Matters links directly with CaseMap^®, allowing attorneys to send matters, contacts, research information and more for trial preparation and analysis. The Send to CaseMap button can be added to all Time Matters record types (excluding Billing records), and enables users to send the record to CaseMap.

Important: The development of the Send To CaseMap feature originates with Time Matters and any sales or support questions you have related to the feature or purchase information should be directed to: LexisNexis Time Matters, 800-328-2898, Sales is ext. 2 and Support is ext. 3, or email: pmsales@lexisnexis.com.

Also, Time Matters 8.0 now integrates with Adobe^® Acrobat^® Reader, automatically saves attachments from Outlook^® emails, and provides for every record type AutoTXT shortcuts that increase accuracy and speed. For the first time, Time Matters 8.0 integrates with NetDocuments^® from LexisNexis, which delivers full document management as an online service.

To learn more about Time Matters 8.0 and Billing Matters 8.0 click here, or call 1-800-328-2898.

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Acrobat 8 Announced – Good News/Bad News

The good news is that Adobe Systems has just released Acrobat 8, an important new version that’s jam packed with features that make it clear Adobe has been paying close attention to requests from users in the legal community. We’re going to create a summary of the key new features in Acrobat 8 and include it in next month’s Client FYI email.

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. For example, Acrobat 8 doesn’t work with the current version of our Send to CaseMap Plug-in for Acrobat. We’re evaluating what’s changed and 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.

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Free Educational Seminar - The Power of Acrobat 8

LexisNexis CaseMap has teamed up with Adobe Acrobat to introduce the all new Acrobat 8. Join us at a live seminar to learn about the powerful new ways Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional can help everyone in your organization communicate and collaborate with confidence.

After the general session, don’t miss the Legal Breakout Session— you’ll see exciting, new legal-specific features in Acrobat 8 and LexisNexis CaseMap 6. Topics to be covered during the legal breakout will be managing document collections, bates numbering, OCR, redaction, document review, search and much more.

Who should attend: Attorneys, IT Staff, Trainers, Paralegals, Litigation Support

Space is limited, so register for one of these locations nearest you at: www.adobe.com/go/acrobat8events

October 17 - San Francisco
October 31 - Chicago
November 3 - New York City
November 14 - Toronto, Ontario
November 17 - Irvine, CA

Sessions will begin at 7:30 a.m. with breakfast and registration and will cover What’s New for Legal Professionals in Acrobat 8 and wrap up at 12:30 p.m. after an informal "Meet the Experts" session.

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New CaseMap Training Option

Every license of CaseMap includes a no-charge, one-hour training 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 method, but we do ask that you call us for the training and pick up 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/hA0E2YL50A0Bavz0Ez to enroll.

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

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Learn a Key Feature in 30 Seconds: One Click from CaseMap to Your Word Processor

Have you sent information from CaseMap to your word processor for use in Motions for Summary Judgment, Exhibit Lists, Witness Lists, other types of court filings and other types of reports? It takes just one mouse click on CaseMap's File/Send To menu.

You determine which information is sent from CaseMap to the word processor by rearranging the columns and rows that are visible in a CaseMap spreadsheet. If you hide the Key field on the Fact spreadsheet, this information will not appear in the word-processing document CaseMap creates. If you filter the Fact spreadsheet so it displays only undisputed facts, only these facts are sent to the word-processing document CaseMap creates. Also, the word-processing document CaseMap creates is fully editable. Columns, rows and their contents can be edited or deleted after the document has been created.

CaseMap isn't a one-trick pony—it can format the information sent to your word processor in a number of different ways . . .

Grid-View: When information is sent to a word processor using CaseMap's Grid-View option, it's laid out as a series of rows and columns much as it appears in a CaseMap spreadsheet.

Open a PDF of a Grid-View report CaseMap created in a word processor.

Record-View: When information is sent to a word processor using CaseMap's Record-View option, each record CaseMap sends to your word processor is listed separately, with fields stacked one above the next.

Open a PDF of a Record-View report CaseMap created in a word processor.

By-Issue Reports: CaseMap also offers advanced options such as By-Issue Reports. The By-Issue option creates a word-processing document that lists case issues and places underneath each issue a table of the facts, documents, persons, questions, or case law that are linked to it.

Open a PDF of a Fact By-Issue report CaseMap created in a word processor.

Features in MS Word makes it possible for CaseMap to create tables directly. Please note that WordPerfect does not offer the same functionality. Thus, the way we create tables that work in WordPerfect is to generate HTML that can be copied from your internet browser and pasted into a WordPerfect document. When you select one of the WordPerfect options on the File/Send To menu, a message explaining the copy/paste operation appears before the HTML is generated.

Again, these options are all found on CaseMap's File Menu under the Send To Menu. The easiest way to learn more is to try them out. There's no risk whatsoever to experimenting with sending CaseMap info to your word processor. Please experiment today!

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