Find Just the Right Words During Litigation Quickly and Easily with TextMap® 4

With the launch of TextMap 4 software, the legal profession’s most flexible, effective and affordable transcript tool is back and better than ever.

Tighter integration with CaseMap® and enhanced reporting options make it even easier to search, annotate, summarize and share your transcripts. These new reports make it amazingly simple to create practical and polished output based on your analysis of depositions and trial transcripts. Following are examples of some of these new reporting options:

Word Index Option in TextMap 4
When electronic depositions or trial transcripts are imported into TextMap, each word is indexed. This allows you quickly pinpoint the location of any word that appears across all transcripts in a case. In TextMap 4, the Word Index TextMap creates can be printed or saved as a PDF and referred to when you’re not using TextMap itself.

Most other transcript summary software products only support printing an index for one transcript at a time. TextMap 4 will permit you to generate word indexes that cover multiple transcripts in a single index.

View a sample word index that’s been associated with a condensed transcript (four transcript pages to a single printed page).

Footnote & End-Note Reports in TextMap 4
You can now produce two entirely new types of reports that show your annotations and notes along with the complete deposition transcript. As the names of these reports suggest, the Footnote Report places notes at the bottom of transcript pages and the End-Notes Report places notes at the back of the transcript. With one extra click you can include a Word Index in these reports.

When you use the TextMap built-in PDF writer (which doesn’t require an Acrobat® license) to generate these reports, TextMap adds extra functionality to the PDF. For example, in the End-Notes Report, TextMap creates links between each annotation and the associated End Note. TextMap also creates links from the word index to the pages on which each word in the index appears.

View sample Footnote and End-Note reports.

Note-Taking Reports in TextMap 4
Another unique feature available in TextMap 4 makes it easy to annotate depositions in reports for trial team members who prefer to work with paper. The new Note-Taking Report prints two condensed transcript pages on the left side of a printed page and adds lines for handwritten notes on the right.

Once the deposition has been marked up, TextMap can be used to capture their annotations and related thoughts so everyone on the trial team can share the knowledge. As with other TextMap 4 reports, one extra mouse click and a Word Index can be added to the Note-Taking Report.

View a sample Note-Taking Report

ReportBooks in TextMap 4
We’re taking the ReportBook concept we introduced in CaseMap and adding it to TextMap 4. A ReportBook is a series of case reports with such optional polishing items as a cover page, table of contents, introduction, confidentiality statement and separator pages between reports.

In TextMap 4, several mouse clicks can generate a ReportBook that includes reports of any given style for any number of transcripts. They can be based on full-sized transcripts, condensed transcripts, Annotation Digests, Footnote/End-Note Reports, Note-Taking Reports and other options. It can even include a single Word Index that references all included depositions.

View a sample TextMap 4 Report Book

Issue Coding
Another new feature of TextMap 4 enables users to import an issue outline from a corresponding CaseMap case file. If you’re not using CaseMap your can define and work with an issue outline from scratch in TextMap. To help facilitate issue analysis, annotations can be flagged as relating to one or more issues and transcripts can be marked up with colors that correspond to your issues. Color-coded passages appear in the reports, too! Reports can also be filtered so only annotations associated with specific issues are included. 

You can create categorizing issues, e.g. Background, that you want to use only in TextMap and not in the CaseMap Issues spreadsheet.

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