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Of course, the information stored in CaseMap is not static. You update it as your discovery continues and your understanding of the case increases. As the litigation progresses, the software allows you to run reports on various objects, facts, and issues and how they relate to the physical evidence, the applicable law, and any questions you may be trying to answer.

You can use the information stored in the case file to develop trial themes and opening statements, to keep clients informed, to prepare for depositions and hearings on motions for summary judgment, and to prepare for settlement conferences, mediation, and ultimately trial. This software can also help train your support staff to work up cases in a consistent manner.

Whether you are a sole practitioner or an attorney in a small or large firm, case management software can help you review the evidence and prepare for trial more efficiently. Knowledge management — whether through CaseMap or a similar product —is extremely helpful in the fact-gathering process.

From the time a litigation client walks through the door, having the ability to assemble case facts in an accessible and useable format for trial is a necessity. If you want to replace your legal pad with sophisticated but easy-to-use litigation knowledge management software consider CaseMap and TimeMap. They are litigation analysis tools as opposed to merely data management tools...They are issue-driven thinking tools that permit an attorney to save and build on the analysis of a case as it progresses.

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You can pound a nail with pliers and turn a screw with scissors. But there is something special about using the right power tool. CaseMap excels at processing and organizing information. It enables lawyers, who frequently think in terms of documents, to focus on ideas — locate the trees but visualize the forest.

It is cleverly done so that the need to use forms, essential to most database programs, is virtually eliminated. The interface is so good that one hardly ever needs menus, though menus exist for those who prefer them.

CaseMap can give you an edge. It can keep your client out of jail and keep you out of trouble. Most important, it should assist in expeditiously obtaining results. Many cases are settled because the other side knows you are ready. CaseMap enables trial on a higher level.

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How would you like to have a photographic memory? To keep track of not only the overwhelming number of details in each of your cases, but also the connections among each of the details that you discover as you proceed with the case. Now you can with CaseMap 3, a new edition of knowledge management software that automates a trial lawyer's yellow tablet as he or she prepares for trial. It is a tool that helps the attorney organize and explore the facts, the people and the issues in any case

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No one lawyer can handle a complicated case without some sort of system of keeping track of all the information, and no two lawyers can work together without a system to integrate their work. CaseMap does both jobs splendidly

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The beauty of this program is that nothing needs be done twice, and everything is interconnected

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The bottom line is that this is a must-buy program. One, you'll be better prepared than you ever imagined. Two, you'll have a competitive advantage over your opponent like you wouldn't believe. Three, the folks at CaseSoft will help you get there.

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CaseMap 3 replaces the jotted notes, scribbled outlines, and painstakingly prepared timelines and chronologies of the past with a powerful linked database that makes it possible to instantly analyze and report on the status of the case. Data entry is no more complicated or cumbersome than scribbling notes, and doesn't require any real shift in the way that litigators think about gathering information. In fact, with CaseMap 3's new Link Assistant, it is actually faster and easier to record and link information via the program than it is on paper. And the process of accumulating information in an easily manipulated database form puts an end to the cumbersome task of reviewing page after page of notes, exhibits, and transcripts to re-familiarize yourself with the status of a case.

Sheryn: "I think that one of the most innovative and genuinely useful KM-focused programs to ever hit the lawyer's desktop is CaseMap from CaseSoft. CaseMap allows you to enter all of the facts, issues, questions, and elements of a case into a single database, with appropriate documents or exhibits attached as you gather it. Then all of that information can be filtered, sorted, evaluated and reported on instantly, whenever you need it. It's an amazing tool to put an end to the endless hours spent "re-reviewing" stale files, or attempting to write, and rewrite case outlines and analyses each time new information becomes available."

. ...knowledge management software purports to help attorneys organize not only case data, but also the way in which they think about the data, in order to manage and develop a case. One of the best products available in this category is CaseMap 3 by CaseSoft.

CaseMap is a highly effective tool that allows attorneys to harness the power of computer technology in ways that mirror the traditional way lawyers are trained to analyze problems.

CaseMap 3 is an easy-to-use, intuitive and highly productive software program that should be added to any techno-savvy lawyer's arsenal of tools.

Possibly the greatest benefit for small-firm and solo attorneys is that CaseMap allows them to go up against much larger firms without having to bring aboard additional manpower.

Gregg Martin's ongoing case exemplifies how this software makes it possible to level the playing field against larger firms.

"It's a large piece of litigation involving a dispute among shareholders over a privately held corporation," says Martin. "We have five of the largest firms in Los Angeles litigating against us [and] no less than three lawyers from each firm working on the case. And we've done it all — with the exception of the six summary judgment motions — with two lawyers.

"Even when they sent us a slew of interrogatories, we were able to go into CaseMap, run filters, print up reports, clean up those reports and say, 'Here are your interrogatories. No problem.'"

CaseMap, the leader in a new generation of intelligent computer applications for lawyers, enables Cyberian litigators of the ‘90’s to enter data once, then examine and re-examine the relationships between the facts and their sources, the facts and the issues, or any other relationships that are important to their case. As any experienced litigator knows, examining and re-examine the relationships in a case is often a key to winning. That was a far more burdensome task in the early 80’s than it is today.

The folks at DecisionQuest have not just built a better mousetrap; they have masterfully accomplished the more daunting task of replacing those seemingly ubiquitous legal pads with a much more powerful alternative. CaseMap does what my legal pads did, but it does it a whole lot better and faster—and, in the long run, it does it far cheaper.

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Unlike traditional case management software ... CaseMap delivers the kind of assistance that many lawyers may need most -- help in organizing their thoughts. ... While attorneys often keep notes of this sort in a word processing file, CaseMap takes the user one step further, using the data to create timelines, pull out information related to a particular issue, sort questions by how critical they are to the case, and perform other useful analyses. "Any practicing attorney is going to have some chronology. They usually do it using a word processor. But with CaseMap you can sort and link, and it is all set up to make it as painless as possible." says Joseph Port, a litigation partner in the D.C. office of Sidley & Austin who has been using CaseMap for about a year.

In CaseMap 2.0, DecisionQuest's CaseSoft division has a highly flexible database allowing facts, issues, questions and their sources (witnesses, depositions, documents, etc.) to be entered once, and then queried again and again to examine and re-examine the relationships between the facts and their sources, the facts and the issues, or any other relationship that is important to you in the case. In short, CaseMap replaces the legal pad.

This is a wonderfully specialized database for the legal profession. The program is feature-rich and can be used in a highly customized way. This is a thinking lawyer's tool.

CaseMap from CaseSoft...combining the best features of those old outliners with the data cataloging provided by modern litigation-support programs. This hybrid combination makes CaseMap a cutting-edge analytical tool, helping you quickly see the strengths and weaknesses of your case.

Organizing information in this fashion gives a perspective that helps litigators assess case risk as well as keep abreast of the latest developments.

In addition, CaseMap can provide corporate counsel with an up-to-date summary of all information and work done on a particular case.

[CaseMap] is a comprehensive software package that lets litigators bring order to issues and facts. CaseMap also helps the trial team evaluate the merits of each bit of data and share case information and responsibilities. ...The instructions are an exemplar to manuals everywhere; from the spiral binding (allowing one to open to any page and lay it flat) to the copious illustrations and straight-forward language, this resource is a pleasure to use.

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The software is powerful, fast and impressive. What occurred to me as I explored it was that here is an area where periodic programming upgrades can be dynamic and exciting, propelled by faster hardware...The point is that this kind of software, in the overall scheme of things, is where the excitement is, in software development.

CaseMap is billed as a litigation "strategy manager." As you prepare for trial, the program is intended to give you a ready grasp of the documents and details you're assimilating. You input information about your facts, documents, issues, people and legal concepts as you develop them. You then can examine the ways they're interconnected and the ways they clash. You can watch your whole case come together over a period of weeks, months, years, and obtain a clear picture of its strengths and weaknesses.

In short, this goes beyond document storage and retrieval. It addresses — may we say it? — the actual practice of law.

CaseMap is the best software-thinking tool I have found for trial lawyers, because it forces us to think and plan while inputting information about a case. The program makes it easier for trial lawyers to think about every significant fact in a case, and how those facts interrelate with issues, exhibits and witnesses.

I have found CaseMap valuable as both a simple tool to quickly retrieve a single fact, such as the exact date and dollar amount of a particular contract in a breach-of-contract case, and as a complex tool to help me prepare my most difficult business torts cases involving multiple defendants and scores of witnesses for trial.

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Trial lawyers looking for a new edge have been taking a close look at computer technology. A new software product called CaseMap (www.casesoft.com) might be just the ticket to give you that edge in your next trial.

CaseMap creates a new software niche. It is a “litigation management” product that can help you create chronologies and timelines, organize and analyze your case and develop strategies. It is a “thinking tool.” And it has the potential to revolutionize the way that lawyers think about and organize their cases.

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• We found [CaseMap] useful and suggest it for any case with more facts and issues than you can reasonably keep in mind at the same time.
• ... CaseMap helps us to gather the various pieces to the puzzle and put them in their proper places.
• ... [CaseMap] has the ability to establish links to show the relationships between facts, people, documents, and issues.
• The Data Refinery makes it easy to isolate all the documents or events involving a particular witness ...

"CaseMap allows you to develop trial strategy by organizing your evidence, exhibits and notes in useful ways. You can rate evidence as favorable or unfavorable, and view information by issue, by witness or in other ways. It also prepares timelines in an easy and effective manner. Very affordable, it's definitely worth a look."

• Here's legal technology innovation at its finest. CaseMap is an entirely new genre of application. Not personal information manager, not case management application and not an automated outliner, but a hybrid of the three.
• If you have a case with details too difficult to keep in your head or on the pages of a legal pad, consider CaseMap, the revolutionary new litigation information-management tool.
• Corporate counsel will find an application like CaseMap useful because of its ability to keep you informed.

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