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“CaseMap”: Attend This Session and Get FREE CaseMap Software For Your School, a $5 Starbucks Card, and a Chance to Win Bose Acoustic Noise-Cancelling Headphones!!
Attend this session and you will leave with more than free coffee cards and prizes. You’ll learn all about a cutting-edge, case analysis tool called “CaseMap” that is used by 100’s of top law firms around the country. LexisNexis is now proudly offering law schools FREE access to CaseMap so that faculty and students can enjoy the benefits that law firms have enjoyed for years. CaseMap is already being used by law school clinics all over the country to help manage their caseloads and teach students about the importance of technology in today’s practice of law. Similarly, professors who teach legal research and writing and other skills-oriented courses are integrating CaseMap into their programs because of the key advantages it offers for both faculty and students.
Law school faculty look to their IT professionals to make them aware of new software that can help them teach or enhance the educational experience of students. CaseMap offers all of that and more, and it’s FREE! Don’t miss this opportunity to introduce your school to CaseMap. They will thank you for it.
What is CaseMap?
CaseMap is a powerful yet simple case analysis tool that provides lawyers with an efficient way to organize and analyze all of the critical information in a case.
Easy Organization and Analysis of Case Information: The “Case Map” created by the user serves as a central repository for all of the information gathered in the case. With CaseMap’s easy- to- use spreadsheets, each category of case information has its own place, i.e., the legal issues, cast of characters, key facts, documentary evidence, and relevant legal authorities. More importantly, CaseMap’s linking feature allows the user to identify and evaluate the relationships between and among these critical pieces of information. For example, a legal issue in the case can be easily linked to the specific facts, documents and legal authorities that support it.
Similarly, the “reporting” feature allow the user to capture their analysis in customized reports that can help to jumpstart motions for summary judgment, exhibit lists, witness lists, etc.
CaseMap, however, is more than just a practical tool for analyzing and managing case information. It is also valuable, pedagogical tool. By systematizing all of the critical tasks and analytical steps involved in taking a case from the pleading stage through trial, CaseMap embodies the actual analysis or “thought process” of a litigator. Thus, in the law school setting, CaseMap serves not only as a practical tool to help students and faculty manage real cases, but also as an educational exercise that teaches a law student how to truly "think like a litigator."
Why is CaseMap an essential tool for law school clinics?
- CaseMap provides a way for the clinical professor to easily manage and keep track of the work being done on their cases;
- CaseMap allows the clinical professor to monitor the work each student is contributing to a case, making it easier to evaluate the skill and progress of individual students;
- CaseMap facilitates the transition of ongoing cases to incoming clinical students, allowing new students to quickly get up to speed on the status of a case by reviewing the "case map" created by their predecessors;
- CaseMap helps students learn how to organize and analyze critical case information like an experienced litigator, making them better prepared for the world of real practice;
What are the other litigation tools that are being offered free to law schools along with CASEMAP?
TimeMap: TimeMap is a timeline graphing tool used to graphically depict and analyze the timeline of facts and evidence uncovered throughout the litigation workflow.
TextMap: TextMap is a transcript summary tool that’s designed to work with CaseMap. It provides a searchable database of electronic transcript files from depositions and other proceedings.
NoteMap: NoteMap is a dynamic, user-friendly outlining tool used to create and edit outlines. Its simplicity and versatility makes it the ideal tool help law students create course outlines that they can develop and edit with ease over the course of a semester.
Your Speaker:
Jacquelyn Inserra, Esq. is the Director of LexisNexis Litigation Services, and a former litigator with 8 years experience in complex, commercial litigation. For the past two years, she has trained law faculty, students and lawyers all over the country to use CaseMap and other legal software applications. She will be happy to visit your law school to conduct a CaseMap presentation for interested faculty.
Jackie Inserra
Director of Industry Relations, Casemap
LexisNexis
jackie dot inserra at lexisnexis dot com
