What Users & Reviewers are Saying About CaseMap!

Here's What Users Are Saying ...

"As a former IRS CID Special Agent with 30 years of experience, I know that a great analytical tool like CaseMap and TimeMap would have made my job much easier. In money laundering investigations (fraud and narcotics), and income tax investigations the chronology of events is very important. Since all of my tax cases used circumstantial evidence to prove a person's intent, your software would have proven invaluable. The use of TimeMap to generate a timeline would have been a snap instead of a monumental task. The ability to link scanned documents to the CaseMap entry is the future of investigation and invaluable. I can only hope that my brother and sister agents in all federal agencies have the opportunity to use CaseMap and TimeMap during their careers with the IRS."

Edmond J. Martin
Sage Investigations, LLC

Don't know what it is? Sure you do. You do it all the time. You take notes on yellow pads and stick them in a file. When the time comes for deposition, you review your notes to figure out what to ask. Time for trial? You take a look at hundreds of pages of notes, scores of memos, and dozens of deposition transcripts. But who was it that was standing on the corner and said the light was red? What was that guy's name? Where did he work? Who else said the light was red?

Dissatisfied with the legal-pad system, tech-savvy lawyers began setting up databases to handle this stuff. But databases can be hard to design and implement, and even harder to modify once created.

Enter CaseMap. This program has revolutionized how I prepare cases and keep track of information.

CaseMap is like a database on steroids, specifically designed for litigators. It replaces your yellow pads, deposition summaries, and memos. It puts all your information in one place, linked to the source, the issues in your case, your evaluation of the information, whether it's disputed, the date, and anything else you want to include. You can add documents, Bates numbers, witness employers and addresses, phone numbers, etc. CaseMap becomes the central repository for your case data."

Jeffrey S. Lisson, Esq.
Wiring the Small Law Office for Less Than $10,000 Copyright 2002

To read this entire article, click: www.lissonlaw.com/articles-opinions.htm

"However, in my opinion, what sets CaseSoft above the pack is not their product. It is their marketing and support strategy. I am also a part-time professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology teaching undergraduate entrepreneurship courses. I am devout believer in marketing and customer service."

Robert J. Ziese, Esq.
Ziese & Associates, Ltd., Rockaway, NJ

"We represented a neurosurgeon who had slipped and fallen in a kitchen at a hospital where he had just performed surgery. Because of the fall, the doctor developed RSD, which is a severe nerve disease caused by his injury. The disease progressed to the point that he developed tremors in his left hand and is now unable to perform any type of surgery.

"In preparation for the trial, I entered all of the witnesses and documents onto CaseMap, as well as the facts of the case with references to the medical records and deposition testimony. As a result, our attorney was able to generate reports and indices of the issues in the case. We found CaseMap to be a valuable tool in organizing the case for trial.

"Our firm is on the cutting edge in our area in using software for trial preparation and presentation. CaseMap has become an important part in preparing our cases for trial, as well as getting the case organized for discovery purposes.

"At the conclusion of the trial, the jury awarded our client with a verdict of $16.9 million dollars for medical expenses, past lost wages, future lost wages and pain & suffering. We’re glad to have CaseMap, TimeMap and NoteMap as part of our trial team!"

Barry Sears
Paralegal
Becker Law Office, PLLC, Louisville, KY

"When I fired up the newest versions of LiveNote (the most avidly adopted new software program I ever introduced into a law firm) and CaseMap (the fact-management database program that has given the litigation support world a whole new paradigm), they worked together far more smoothly and simply than I had any right to expect.

"In three clicks of the mouse, I selected a question-and-answer pair in LiveNote and sent it over to CaseMap. In CaseMap, I not only had the text with page and line numbers intact, I also had the date and time of the deposition and a live link back to the transcript.

"Four clicks in CaseMap and I was back to the highlighted text in LiveNote, able to view that text in context, scroll through adjoining text, and use the full array of tools offered by LiveNote.

"With these enhancements in LiveNote and CaseMap, we, the users, are the big winners!"

George J. Socha, Jr., Esq.
Halleland Lewis Nilan Sipkins & Johnson, P.A., Minneapolis, MN

"We were able to piece together the real story by taking small scraps of information and putting them in the correct chronological order. We used TimeMap to refresh the recollection of witnesses. The plaintiff's original demand was over $1 million. We settled before trial for $10,000. I do not think we could have done it without CaseMap because it would have been too difficult to manage that many pieces of information, and we would not have realized that the dealer was lying without seeing these small, seemingly unrelated, and at first meaningless scraps of information chronologically, especially when we loaded them in TimeMap. These are great products!"

Susan LaCava, Esq.,
Susan LaCava, S.C., Madison, WI

Frederick L. Talcott, Esq.
Law Offices of Frederick L. Talcott, Oakland, CA

Robert H. Greenfield, Esq.
Greenfield Law Firm, Cameron Park CA

"There were hundreds of allegations, and for each material allegation you have to state the facts that support it, plus the witnesses and documents that support each fact. Without CaseMap, it would have taken me months to do that for every allegation.

"But because I had already entered the information into CaseMap, I was able to filter by issue, by fact, by witness and by document--and I was able to print out reports [to attach to the interrogatories] and say, 'See attachment A for allegation one.' And this only took me two days, as opposed to the weeks upon weeks it would've taken me without [CaseMap]."

Eric Epstein, Esq.
Epstein & Reed, Los Angeles, CA

"I recently used CaseMap to organize critical information in a birth trauma case. I created a simple but very detailed chronology with events from the nurses' notes, the doctors' notes, laboratory data, deposition transcripts, OR logs, etc. By assembling all this data in CaseMap, relationships and patterns emerged that were not at all clear from reading the various sources standing alone. Just as important, all the information was in one central location rather than scattered among deposition summaries, Post-it laden medical records, and my usual hand-scrawled ‘brainstorm’ notes.

"I was able to attend a settlement conference with the carriers, their counsel and the trial judge carrying nothing more than my CaseMap chronologies rather than the boxes of materials I would normally bring. I walked them through the chronology and pointed out where the hospital and doctors had made serious mistakes. When they challenged any fact, I just went to the Sources column in my CaseMap report and showed them where they could find it. Apparently, the organization paid off. My case settled for the full policy limits of $2,000,000.00."

James B. Reed, Esq.
Ziff, Weiermiller, Hayden & Mustico, LLP, Elmira, NY

"P.S. Will you please consider giving a seminar to other legal software vendors on proper end-user service and support?"

Michael D. Lopresto, Esq.
Attorney at Law, New Iberia, LA

Donald H. Partington, Esq.
Clark, Partington, Hart, Larry, Bond, Stackhouse & Stone, Pensacola, FL

Chuck Ragan, Esq.
Partner Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Menlo Park, CA

"It has helped me not only with organizing the facts, evidence and a potential 40+ witness case, but also assisted me in evolving a much more sophisticated and subtle theory of the case."

Eric Maxwell, Esq.
Partner Law Offices of Eric Maxwell, Boston, MA

"In addition, anyone whose students work on factually complex cases should find CaseMap an enormously useful management and coordination tool. This value will be particularly obvious where several students are working on cases involving a large volume of documents and a significant number of parties and witnesses. When students use CaseMap, they can easily coordinate their efforts and keep abreast of each other's work. Furthermore, the students' use of CaseMap greatly facilitates a supervising lawyer's ability to oversee the students' work. For example, an instructor can readily check on the extent information derived from witness interviews, documents and public record searches are being integrated into an appropriate chronology and tied to a case's important issues.

"Lastly, CaseMap is easy to use. Students can develop at least basic familiarity with the program in less than two hours."

Dr. David Binder
U.C.L.A. School of Law

Jennifer L.Stoner, Esq.
Mayo Clinic

Gary N. Miller, Esq.
Los Angeles County Counsel

"The ability to record 'on the fly' any open items of investigation, or questions that occur as you enter case data minimizes the chance of incomplete preparation. When I've entered a case into CaseMap I have complete confidence that I'm ready for trial.

"I wish this program were available years ago!"

Larry Chase, Esq.
Law Offices of Larry Chase, Rochester, NY

Kimball R. Anderson, Esq.
Partner Winston & Strawn, Chicago, IL

"CaseMap is a simple, friendly, straightforward but very useful and constructive tool. It helps us to be creative and imaginative. I have built CaseMap case files for 15 of my cases, and I look forward to their trials with confidence. No more oversights or inadvertence."

Thomas Tse, Esq.
Yip, Tse & Tang, Solicitors, Hong Kong

Gail E. Lees, Esq.
Partner
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, CA

Maggie Greenwalt
Knobbe, Martens, Olsen & Bear, Irvine, CA

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