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Create Timelines for Your Cases to View, Share, and Edit From Any Device

By Neil J. Squillante | Friday, May 10, 2019

Today's TL NewsWire Hot Product is the first cloud-based timeline creation and case document storage software designed for the legal profession (see article below). In addition, you'll find links to many previous TL NewsWire Hot Products, including cloud practice management software designed to get your firm up and running quickly while also offering a seamless path to more advanced functionality when needed. Don't miss the next issue of TL NewsWire.

Time plays a critical role in many criminal and civil cases. Therefore, displaying key events on a timeline is essential for depositions, settlement conferences, and trials — not to mention for your own analysis of the facts. Most legal timeline software remains bound to your PC, but a new timeline product runs in the cloud.

TrialLine in One Sentence

Law Father's TrialLine is cloud-based timeline creation software for lawyers that includes digital case document storage.

The Killer Feature

Travis Luther's wife needed to create timelines for her law practice but could not find a modern web app. So Luther, Law Father's founder and president, created a simple app for her. Other lawyers began asking for access. Sensing a market need, Luther spent several years developing TrialLine. Users of the software like it so much they refer to their timelines as "TrialLines."

Luther realized that lawyers need more than one timeline view so TrialLine offers four — Relative, Carousel, Slide, and List.

Relative View shows events in a temporally precise manner (the time distance between events), making it suitable for demonstrative evidence. TrialLine offers granularity down to the second so you can use it for injuries and other split-second incidents.

Carousel View displays events side-by-side in equal succession, while Slide View blows up events to consume the full screen similar to a PowerPoint presentation. List View offers a text specific spreadsheet-like experience that enables you to sort and filter by columns and isolate select events related to an issue of law or those that may require review by an expert witness. You can save various searches and views for later reference.

TrialLine offers two export options — export the Carousel View in a high-quality PNG image format for poster board printing or export your data in Word or Excel documents for full or category-specific case summaries.

"I discovered TrialLine while preparing an employment retaliation case for trial," says Sam Cannon, founder of Cannon Law. "Using TrialLine really helped us visualize the temporal relationship between my client's protected reports of sexual harassment to the retaliatory acts. In addition, by adding the defendant's pretextual justifications for its adverse actions as separate categories, we could display the lack of a temporal relationship between them and the adverse actions. This helped us simplify the trial."

Other Notable Features

TrialLine's event creation tool includes fields for the date and time, case-specific categories, Bates numbers, Exhibit numbers, professional providers, bills, text descriptions, and tags. You can also upload corresponding documents and videos and attach them to specific events. Your TrialLines display symbols on events to let you know they have associated categories and files.

As a case progresses, you and your colleagues can collaborate and append notes and comments to events. Additionally, "TrialLines can be easily shared online with clients and experts, allowing them to monitor case progress and contribute new or requested information," says Luther. Sharing occurs via a link in an email message. TrialLine displays all sharing history on one page, enabling you to easily revoke access.

What Else Should You Know?

For one user, TrialLine costs $9.99 per month for the software plus $9.99 per case per month for the document storage. Larger teams receive a discount (see the pricing page). The ability to store the entire case file in a HIPPA-compliant manner eliminates the need to use a digital archive provider like Iron Mountain. TrialLine splits the software and storage fee so that you can recover the latter from clients. Explore TrialLine and bookmark the website.

About TL NewsWire
So many products, so little time. Each week, TL NewsWire reports on the hottest new products for lawyers and law office administrators. The innovative structure of TL NewsWire articles enable you to quickly understand each product's value proposition, and then zero in on its killer feature and other notable attributes. In each issue, you can easily revisit our back catalog of articles and the most recent TL NewsWire Top 25 Products Awards. Subscribe to TL NewsWire.

Topics: Litigation/Discovery/Trials | Presentations/Projectors | TL NewsWire

Get Inside the Heads of Experts and Judges Using Their Own Historical Data

By Neil J. Squillante | Sunday, December 16, 2018

Today's TL NewsWire Hot Product enables you to analyze the historical record of experts and judges to inform your case strategy, including an expert's track record on Daubert challenges and citations your judge prefers (see article below). In addition, you'll find links to many previous TL NewsWire Hot Products, including cloud billing software for solos and small firms with new trust accounting and other billing productivity tools. Don't miss the next issue of TL NewsWire.

Everyone engages in mind reading. It's human nature. But it's not a good idea when it comes to the expert witnesses and the judges in your cases. You're much better off analyzing actual data.

Context in One Sentence

Context on Lexis Advance is a new litigation analytics product that enables you to visualize and leverage the historical record of experts and judges to draft better arguments.

The Killer Feature

Context grew out of Ravel Law, which LexisNexis acquired in 2017. Ravel Law garnered attention for its judge analytics offering, enabling lawyers to get inside the head of a judge before starting a legal research project.

With access to the vast store of legal knowledge on Lexis Advance, including more than 380,000 expert witness profiles, the Ravel Law team has achieved a breakthrough they call "case-law language analytics" -- the ability to transform unstructured documents into actionable data.

This has paved the way for Expert Analytics. Search for an expert and Context displays a dashboard with charts showing that expert's case volume by year, area of law, and jurisdiction, and another chart showing the hiring party breakdown. You'll also find current and past curricula vitae, contact information, and more.

Click the Analytics tab and you see the practical results of case-law language analytics. The Challenges Outcome Analysis chart lists the expert's Daubert challenge history, including the percent of testimony admitted, admitted in part, and excluded. An accompanying table lists each case, the basis of the challenge (methodology, qualification, relevance, or procedural), and the outcome. To the right, you'll find the corresponding court opinions for exploring these challenges in more depth.

"A resource like Context enables an attorney to better strategize," says Diana Witt, Director of Library Services at Akerman LLP. "Leveraging its analytics increases the probability of winning a case."

Other Notable Features

Context also brings case-law language analytics to bear on judges with Judge Analytics. After entering the name of your judge, the dashboard provides the judge's biography, contact information, etc. High-level charts break out opinion volume by year and area of law.

The Analytics tab takes you to the judge's Motion Outcomes chart, which compiles the percentage of motions granted, granted in part, and denied by 100 different motion types. You can filter by area of law, court, and motion type. Click on the type of motion that interests you and Context lists the applicable court opinions and outcomes.

Context also provides Citation Patterns for the judge you're researching. This means you can cite opinions in your brief that your judge is likely to find persuasive. A chart lists the judges most frequently cited by your judge (including self-citations). Cards that resemble those in Lexis Answers group related citations by point of law and display the key language from each case for you to copy and paste into your brief.

What Else Should You Know?

"With a few keystrokes, Context delivers the critical insights and analysis attorneys need to more quickly and successfully prepare their cases for court," says Jeff Pfeifer, Vice President of Product Management. "When attorneys know what specific language a judge regularly uses, or how well an expert's testimony will stand up to judicial scrutiny, they are empowered to argue more persuasively and effectively on behalf of their clients. Only Context delivers this level of insight, right from the very start of the litigation process." Explore Context on Lexis Advance and bookmark the website.

About TL NewsWire
So many products, so little time. Each week, TL NewsWire reports on the hottest new products for lawyers and law office administrators. The innovative structure of TL NewsWire articles enable you to quickly understand each product's value proposition, and then zero in on its killer feature and other notable attributes. In each issue, you can easily revisit our back catalog of articles and the most recent TL NewsWire Top 25 Products Awards. Subscribe to TL NewsWire.

Topics: Legal Research | Litigation/Discovery/Trials | TL NewsWire

36 Writing Guidelines for Lawyers Plus 43 More Must-Reads

By TechnoLawyer | Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Coming today to LitigationWorld: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 44 articles from the past two weeks worthy of your attention. Below you'll find a sample article from each section of today's issue, including our LitigationWorld Pick of the Week.

The Opposite of Virtue Signaling: Choosing Money Over Honesty

A Decade Makes Quite a Difference in Ediscovery

Simplify a Tedious Deposition Review With Technology

Analyzing the Effect of Trump Appointees on the Federal Bench

Congratulations to Patrick Lamb of In Search of Perfect Client Service on winning our LitigationWorld Pick of the Week award: ElevateNext's Writing Guidelines

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Topics: Coming Attractions | Litigation/Discovery/Trials | LitigationWorld

How to Make Your Paragraphs More Persuasive Plus 40 More Must-Reads

By TechnoLawyer | Thursday, September 20, 2018

Coming today to LitigationWorld: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 41 articles from the past two weeks worthy of your attention. Below you'll find a sample article from each section of today's issue, including our LitigationWorld Pick of the Week.

A Primer on Litigation Finance

Study Says Casetext Beats LexisNexis for Research, but LexisNexis Calls Foul

Ayfie Unloads New Ediscovery Program With Linguistic Context Expertise

On-Premise vs. Cloud Considerations for Ediscovery

Congratulations to Joseph Regalia of Appellate Advocacy Blog on winning our LitigationWorld Pick of the Week award: The Pitfalls and Power of the Paragraph

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Topics: Coming Attractions | Litigation/Discovery/Trials | LitigationWorld

Tom O'Connor on Ediscovery's Leading Products and Trends

By TechnoLawyer | Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Coming today to LitigationWorld: In this issue of LitigationWorld, ediscovery legend Tom O'Connor gets you up-to-speed on the always changing world of ediscovery. You'll learn about the most popular products, the current state of ediscovery for small cases, Office 365's ediscovery tools, the impact of Amended Federal Rule of Evidence 902, and the most important trends in law firms and corporate legal departments. Also, don't miss the LitigationWorld Pick of the Week for voir dire advice from a trial consultant who was recently a juror himself.

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All practice areas evolve, but none faster than litigation. Written by successful litigators and other litigation experts, LitigationWorld provides you with practical tips related to electronic discovery, depositions, litigation strategy, litigation technology, and trial presentations. LitigationWorld also features in-depth litigation product reviews with accompanying TechnoScore ratings, as well as links to the most noteworthy litigation articles in other publications so that you'll never miss anything. The LitigationWorld newsletter is free so don't miss the next issue. Please subscribe now.

Topics: Coming Attractions | Litigation/Discovery/Trials | LitigationWorld

Three-Part Task Management System; Mediators Are Not Svengalis; Reviews of Ecco Pro, Adobe Sign

By TechnoLawyer | Friday, September 14, 2018

Today's issue of TL Serendipity contains these articles:

Bryan Sims, My Three-Part Task Management System

Robert Rice, Mediators Are Not Svengalis

Rodrick Enns, Ecco Pro Alive and Kicking

Philip Franckel, Review of Adobe Sign

Don't miss this issue — or any future issues.

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Topics: Business Productivity/Word Processing | Collaboration/Knowledge Management | Coming Attractions | Litigation/Discovery/Trials | Practice Management/Calendars | TL Serendipity

Stylish Legal Citations Plus 43 More Must-Reads

By TechnoLawyer | Thursday, September 6, 2018

Coming today to LitigationWorld: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 44 articles from the past two weeks worthy of your attention. Below you'll find a sample article from each section of today's issue, including our LitigationWorld Pick of the Week.

Technology Becoming a Necessity in Litigation Matters

Some Posthumous Wisdom on Writing From Robert Louis Stevenson

More on Stylish Legal Citations

Trumping Justice: Inside the President's Successful Transformation of the Federal Judiciary

Congratulations to Alexa Z. Chew of University of North Carolina School of Law on winning our LitigationWorld Pick of the Week award: Stylish Legal Citation

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All practice areas evolve, but none faster than litigation. Written by successful litigators and other litigation experts, LitigationWorld provides you with practical tips related to electronic discovery, depositions, litigation strategy, litigation technology, and trial presentations. You'll also receive in-depth litigation product reviews as well as links to the most noteworthy articles in other online litigation publications so that you'll never miss anything. The LitigationWorld newsletter is free so don't miss the next issue. Please subscribe now.

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Rethinking How Clients Hire Litigators Plus 36 More Must-Reads

By TechnoLawyer | Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Coming today to LitigationWorld: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 37 articles from the past two weeks worthy of your attention. Below you'll find a sample article from each section of today's issue, including our LitigationWorld Pick of the Week.

Nino and Me: An Interview With Bryan A. Garner

Your Adversaries Can Be Jerks. Deal With It

Safely Navigating Social Media Discovery With the Sedona Conference Primer on Social Media

The Basics of Ediscovery: Legal Hold

Congratulations to Mark Herrmann of Above the Law on winning our LitigationWorld Pick of the Week award: Most Cases Settle. Should That Affect Your Thinking?

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Topics: Coming Attractions | Litigation/Discovery/Trials | LitigationWorld

New Uses for Multiple Monitors; Reviews of Dell Display Manager, Copernic; Know When to Revise and When to Say Good Enough; Pants Pockets

By TechnoLawyer | Friday, August 17, 2018

Today's issue of TL Serendipity contains these articles:

Nicholas Bettinger, New Uses for Multiple Monitors; Review of Dell Display Manager

Bruce Brightwell, Tip: Know When to Revise and When to Say Good Enough

George Lazar, Review of Copernic for Desktop Search

Government Employee, Women Also Need Pants Pockets

Don't miss this issue — or any future issues.

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Topics: Coming Attractions | Entertainment/Hobbies/Recreation | Litigation/Discovery/Trials | Monitors | TL Serendipity | Utilities

Viable Options for Paperless Note Taking Plus 40 More Must-Reads

By TechnoLawyer | Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Coming today to LitigationWorld: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 41 articles from the past two weeks worthy of your attention. Below you'll find a sample article from each section of today's issue, including our LitigationWorld Pick of the Week.

Viral Facebook Post on Mansplaining Female Litigator Attire at Vermont Bar Association Trial Academy

Is Wikipedia a Reliable Legal Authority?

Mobile Device Discovery

How to Increase Cause Strikes and Save Your Best Jurors During Voir Dire

Congratulations to Jeff Schoenberger of Solo in Colo on winning our LitigationWorld Pick of the Week award: A Noteworthy Item

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All practice areas evolve, but none faster than litigation. Written by successful litigators and other litigation experts, LitigationWorld provides you with practical tips related to electronic discovery, depositions, litigation strategy, litigation technology, and trial presentations. You'll also receive in-depth litigation product reviews as well as links to the most noteworthy articles in other online litigation publications so that you'll never miss anything. The LitigationWorld newsletter is free so don't miss the next issue. Please subscribe now.

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