Experience the Modern, Intuitive Design of Casemap® 11 Case Analysis Software
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FACTS CAPTURED. ISSUES CONNECTED. CASE CLOSED. Experience the modern, intuitive design of CaseMap® 11 case analysis software. From the beginning of your case to the end, CaseMap® 11 software helps you achieve better outcomes for your clients. Powerful features and a fresh, intuitive design make it easier to organize, search and share case information your way. Learn more: lexisnexis.com/casemap Assembling each case is quicker with powerful, user-friendly CaseMap 11 tools • Easily access your favorite features on a convenient ribbon. • Send relevant case information from your Microsoft® software and other tools to CaseMap so it’s always at your fingertips. • Customize spreadsheets to organize facts, persons, documents, issues, etc. • Tie together the facts, issues and evidence—see connections you might otherwise miss. • Produce polished PDF reports with embedded documents for easier fact tracking, information sharing and case analysis. • Increase efficiency so you can take on more cases without sacrificing client service. Speed your work with the modern CaseMap 11 design CaseMap 11 case analysis software has a fresh look and feel. The ribbon at the top of your screen is similar to the design in other familiar software. You can quickly see what you need and take action. The CaseMap ribbon has buttons for the features you use most —for example, issue linking, filtering and reports are at your fingertips. And when you hover over any button, a descriptive hint helps you along. Gather and organize case facts and issues You can efficiently gather critical information directly from PDFs, Concordance® discovery management software, Microsoft® Word, lexis.com®, Lexis Advance® and more. Send it to CaseMap while maintaining a record and the ability to link back to each resource where the information originated. CaseMap spreadsheets and tools enable you to organize witness lists, a master-fact chronology and document indices, plus privilege logs, deposition summaries and case issues you’re trying to prove. Full-text searching You can easily search individual spreadsheets. But you can also search your entire CaseMap file, as well as the attached documents, to quickly find and easily manage facts, key players and hot documents. Search your entire case file and then narrow results, as desired. Issue Linking You can easily link facts and objects to case issues with the Issue Linking button centered on your ribbon. Search Link Assistant It’s simple to search case data for object and issue names. The CaseMap 11 Search Link Assistant automatically searches for links to objects and issues with names that match your search criteria. To gain the most benefit without complicating your searches, use CaseMap short names for linking. This feature is enabled by default, but you can easily turn it off for more precise search control. Bulk importing and optical character recognition You can import multiple types of documents and images at once—not only PDFs, but virtually any document type, including Word, email and TIFF files. Convert images to text using optical character recognition (OCR) on multiple documents to find the underlying text contained in images. Customized spreadsheets Click the Issue Linking In CaseMap, you can easily organize documents, persons, places, button, and a convenient pane events, evidence, proceedings, pleadings, etc., as “objects” listed displays, showing you an outline in object spreadsheets—and even sub-object spreadsheets. of linked issues, plus easy-to-use You can create or rename your sub-object spreadsheets as checkboxes and filters. needed and move spreadsheets within your list. Tools are flexible to help you organize your case your way. Convenient reporting When you click the Reports tab in your ribbon, you can select the By Issue report, SummaryJudgment report, ReportBooks and more. In the course of organizing your case, you can add files to specific fields in your object spreadsheets. Then you can easily embed those linked documents in PDF ReportBooks for easier fact tracking, information sharing and case analysis. With key files embedded in ReportBooks, you have quick access to related references in the report, helping you prepare more thoroughly for arbitration and trial. Microsoft integration Seamlessly send work product and case data to CaseMap from within Word. Either highlight specific facts to send, or send the full document. In addition, integration with Microsoft Outlook® is available when you use the CaseMap DocManager feature. Tools for real-time collaboration CaseMap 11 also includes a Microsoft SharePoint® Web Part, enabling you to view real-time CaseMap data (e.g., spreadsheets) on a collaborative case team or matter Web page. You can grant access to the page for non CaseMap users (e.g., clients or co-counsel). The SharePoint Web Part requires SQL access*. CaseMap 11 with SQL for collaboration across your LAN or via Citrix* Litigation teams across your local-area network or Citrix network can use CaseMap 11 with SQL simultaneously to capture, organize and share facts, research and documents. • Store case data using a Microsoft SQL Server® database if this approach meets your needs. - This option provides added security and may be your best choice if you have multiple offices, an SQL server, litigation support staff and in-house IT. - You can convert multiple CaseMap Access cases at once into SQL Server databases. • Manage cases in CaseMap 11, as well as CaseMap 10, CaseMap 9, TextMap® 6 and TextMap 7, with updated versions of the CaseMap Server and Admin Console. • Collaborate on a smaller scale using CaseMap with Citrix or other terminal service technologies. CaseMap DocManager feature Enhanced document searching, viewing, annotating and printing. With a near-native viewer supporting most standard file types used in litigation, the CaseMap DocManager feature provides a single interface for you to view, annotate, hit- highlight, Bates stamp, batch print, and batch convert files to PDF and TIFF. *Optional; requires Microsoft SQL Server®, which may call for database administrative staffing. The CaseMap DocManager feature displays highlighted search hits. You can also use the CaseMap DocManager to review all linked documents. CaseMap DocManager also offers a Document Review Pane, enabling you to navigate more easily between search hit documents and keep multiple documents open in the same window. Additionally, if you click on a different document in Click the Review Linked Files button on your ribbon to navigate and annotate your CaseMap (e.g., a document documents—and link them to facts—without leaving the document view. from the Facts spreadsheet), this will open in a separate tab so that you can easily toggle between open tabs. If desired, you can also automatically display linked files in their original application rather than the CaseMap DocManager file viewer. Use CaseMap DocManager to easily generate batch output to print, PDF or TIFF. Download a complimentary 30-day trial of CaseMap 11† at lexisnexis.com/casemap † Complimentary trial provides fully functional software that operates for 30 days following installation, and complimentary trial is subject to terms and conditions of end-user license agreements. Trial offer expires 30 days from activation. Other restrictions may apply. LexisNexis, Lexis Advance, lexis.com and the Knowledge Burst logo are registered trademarks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used under license. Concordance, CaseMap and TextMap are registered trademarks of LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Other products or services may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2015 LexisNexis. All rights reserved. BLT00232-3 0115.