New LexisNexis(R) CaseMap(R) Enhances Strategic Link between Discovery and Case Assessment

Today LexisNexis® announced a new version of CaseMap® software that enhances the program’s reporting features and helps litigators get the most out of their discovery documents as they assess cases and plan litigation strategy. The announcement comes as LexisNexis participates in the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) annual conference in Orlando, Florida. As part of the LexisNexis commitment to providing attorneys a set of "Total Practice Solutions,” the new CaseMap is available as a stand alone software product for download, but it is also integrated and available for use with other LexisNexis services within the LexisNexis® Total Litigator platform – a single, online destination where litigators can access and use tools to help them perform each step in the litigation process. Case assessment and analysis involves gathering, organizing and analyzing critical case details to develop and implement litigation strategy early and throughout the litigation process. However, while litigators value case assessment and analysis highly, they report not having enough time or a systematic method for doing it well, and most report they could improve their case assessment skills, according to a survey conducted earlier this year.¹ CaseMap 7.5 addresses these challenges with an enhanced ability to link with discovery software and services to precisely import and use documents in CaseMap. For example, a hallmark of the new CaseMap is its expanded "Bulk Send to CaseMap” function to include linkages with more than 30 discovery and litigation support tools, such as LexisNexis® Concordance®, LexisNexis® Total Litigator, LexisNexis® CourtLink®, WorldDOX®, Adobe® Acrobat®, Hummingbird® DM5, Worksite® (iManage) and many more. Additionally, CaseMap now offers a new "Reports Menu” to easily create polished and professional reports. The more than 20 new specific "Link Summary” fields make it easier for attorneys and support staff to track relationships between players in cases and the documents associated with them. These new features mean attorneys can easily and confidently map and directly import their discovery data into CaseMap, then create specific and compelling documents for assessing a case, generate strategic reports for clients and improve internal communications. These same features also enable litigators to produce document indexes and other lists to respond to discovery requests they receive as part of casework. "The ability for litigators to run more complete and unified discovery, case assessment and reporting processes translates into a better ability to serve current clients and to take on more cases,” said Michael Gersch, vice president and managing director of Case Assessment and Discovery Services at LexisNexis. "This is a very important upgrade," said Los Angeles based attorney Mark Kleiman, Esq. "The ability to drop a full report into a spreadsheet alone is worth the upgrade, but beyond that it has all the link summaries we have really, really wanted – and some I’ve never thought of. Now I can easily link people to which document they sent or which documents they received.” Other New CaseMap Features CaseMap 7.5 also offers clients a number of other enhancements, including: Import Issues From NoteMap®. For the first time, users can now import an Issue Outline authored in NoteMap directly into the CaseMap Issues Spreadsheet. The new "On-The-Fly” feature in "Send to CaseMap” eliminates the need to flip back to the appropriate spreadsheet to add people, places or things to CaseMap that may not have been previously designated as "Objects.” This boosts productivity while keeping users’ train of thought on track. Integration with CaseMap Report Publisher. This gives litigators the ability to securely share and update case reports from multiple locations between geographically separated parties. Report Publisher is an optional addition to CaseMap, sold separately. About LexisNexis LexisNexis® (www.lexisnexis.com) is a leading global provider of information and services solutions, including its flagship Web-based Lexis® and Nexis® research services, to a wide range of professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic markets. A member of Reed Elsevier [NYSE: ENL; NYSE: RUK] (www.reedelsevier.com), LexisNexis serves customers in 100 countries with 13,000 employees worldwide. ¹Early Case Assessment survey of U.S. litigators conducted by Cogent Research on behalf of LexisNexis, February 2007