What's New in CaseMap 7

The watchword for the latest version of our case analysis tool CaseMap 7 is "integration".  You may have already used the "Send-to-CaseMap" feature with other tools to add documents and facts to your CaseMap file.  Now LexisNexis products and services send information to new CaseMap 7.  

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LexisNexis Total Litigator

Select any term in your CaseMap case analysis spreadsheets and send it to LexisNexis Total Litigator for research.  For example:

Your client is being sued by Anstar Biotech Industries (ABI). 

• Find out background info on ABI using Lexis.com. 

• See ABI's track record in similar matters. 

• Gather intelligence on opposing counsel's track record in handling cases like yours. 

• If you have a judge and a trial date find out how many cases he or she has handled that are similar and view critical case law. 

The possibilities are amazing!  Access a world of information with a couple of mouse clicks from CaseMap.  To find out more about using Total Litigator click here:

• Draft, File and Serve Documents

• Plan & Conduct Discovery

• Conduct Legal Research

• Gather Intelligence

• Set Alerts and Track Dockets

CaseMap Citations in Total Litigator

1. Select and right click a Citation in the Research-Authorities spreadsheet of CaseMap 7

2. The shortcut menu lets you track down a copy of the citation in LexisNexis Total Litigator.

3. Shepardize it or get and print a copy of the case with two mouse clicks.

CourtLink

CourtLink proceedings can now be sent to CaseMap as an object or a fact and then link back to Courtlink. There are four options:

• Highlight pleading or other text in a docket and send it to CaseMap as a Fact.

• Select a checkbox for a pleading or other action and send the Pleading and the full docket to CaseMap as Objects.

• Right-click anywhere on a docket and send it to CaseMap as an Object.

• Use the new Bulk Send to CaseMap Wizard by checking a set of pleadings or the whole docket, right-click and set them all up as Objects in CaseMap with links back to CourtLink.

You’ll also want to check out the Courtlink integration to our TimeMap timeline graphing tool. TimeMap customers can subscribe to Courtlink and send the dates and text from a selected set of pleadings to a TimeMap timeline, displaying them chronologically as Facts.

The new "Send to TimeMap" button appears in dockets for courts in: US District Civil, Criminal, Bankruptcy, the Circuit Courts of Appeals, and Delaware Chancery. NOTE: Requires TimeMap 4.1

CaseMap and Total Litigation Navigation Enhancements

CaseMap 7's Main Sidebar (on the left) has a new LexisNexis bar at the bottom left corner of the screen with convenient links to both Litigation Tasks and Litigation Tools.  The same choices are available from the Total Litigator button on the right end of the standard toolbar.  Click the bar or the toolbar button to link to tasks like, Early Case Assessment or Discovery and Research.  Or use the Litigation Tools menu to launch programs like TimeMap, TextMap, Concordance, CourtLink and File & Serve.

Enhanced CaseMap Acrobat Plus Plug-in

We brought you the CaseMap PDF Bates Stamper in CaseMap 6.  Now CaseMap 7 gives you enhanced tools to help you find specific Bates-numbered pages, filter to limit your spreadsheet view to a range of documents, analyze your document index to identify potential problems in your Bates Number entries, synchronize Bates End/Pages fields and more.

The Bates Analyzer looks at the numbers in the Bates Begin and Bates End fields and performs several analyses to find inconsistencies, duplications and anomalies.  You can get a summary of the analyses as well as tabs to view Invalid Documents, Duplicate Documents, Duplicate Pages, Gaps and Valid Ranges and then create reports as needed

With the Bates Find and Filter utility you can find a Bates-numbered document anywhere in your Objects-Documents spreadsheet. CaseMap 7 makes it easy to filter your Documents spreadsheet for a range of Bates Numbers. 

The new Bates End/Pages Synchronization features adjusts either the Bates End entry or the Pages value for a document record then the corresponding field will automatically adjust to remain in synch. 

Acrobat 8 Integration

Enhancements to Adobe Acrobat 8 are completely compatible with CaseMap 7.  Our new CaseMap Acrobat PLUS Plug-in enables CaseMap 7 to recognize Acrobat 8 Bates Stamps and import them into CaseMap just like our own PDF Bates Stamper.

Bulk Send to CaseMap Feature

CaseMap 7 has new infrastructure that will allow other programs that have the Send to CaseMap feature to enable a Bulk Send to CaseMap wizard.  The new Bulk Send to CaseMap wizard will allow you to define which fields and data are sent to CaseMap during the Bulk send.

As an example, imagine that you want to import and link a batch of documents from LexisNexis Concordance to CaseMap.  The new wizard will make that easy and you'll be able to define important coded data fields from Concordance into corresponding fields in CaseMap using the wizard.  Cool and coming soon!

Conclusion

We hope you enjoy using CaseMap 7.  We've picked up the pace of development for all our tools thanks to new LexisNexis resources.  We welcome your comments and suggestions.  Please write info@casesoft.com.  Thank you for being a LexisNexis CaseMap client!