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Business development software released

Cole Valley Software announces a significant upgrade to its Legal Ease Marketing Database software. Legal Ease Version 5 offers a comprehensive client-server solution which allows everyone in a firm’s wide area network (throughout the office or around the world) to share consistent and current information, including data from the firm’s accounting system.

Legal Ease allows law firms to capture and leverage information to develop a strategic marketing database that can help track existing client activity as well as develop new business. Because the software supports a wide range of applications, it easily consolidates information for reporting and in-depth client analysis to help law firms manage many aspects of their business relationships.

With Legal Ease Version 5, every desk shares powerful business development tools. All users can target prospects and referrals, provide access to client histories and create the tools for successful event planning and analysis.

“Legal Ease Version 5 has all the marketing and management tools of previous versions, including the ability to integrate with the popular accounting systems to share all information and resources firm-wide, so that everyone is working from the same data,” said Cole Valley Software President Jeff Reade. “In addition, the new version has e-mail, fax, phone and mail merge capabilities, and also integrates with leading calendar and word processing programs, allowing attorneys and other users to utilize the data for everyday purposes.”

For more information, call Jeff Reade at 415/759-8878.

Help with brain and spinal cord cases

West Group has released “Neurolaw: Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries,” a single, loose-leaf publication that provides the latest medical and legal information necessary to handle these types of cases. Author J. Sherrod Taylor, a former director of the Brain Injury Association and current board member of the International Brain Injury Association, has more than 20 years of experience in personal injury and wrongful death cases. He shares his insights and practice-oriented advice on all stages of traumatic brain and spinal cord injury cases.

The book is written for both novice and seasoned practitioners. Topics include understanding and defining various brain and spinal cord injuries, early stages of neuro-litigation, expert witnesses, demonstrative evidence, defense positions, settlements, pretrial and trial preparation, appeals, workers’ compensation and Social Security. Each topic contains extensive case and statutory references.

“Neurolaw: Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries” is updated annually and costs $165. ATLA members receive a discount price of $145. For ordering information, call West Group at 1-800/221-9428 or visit the www.westgroup.com catalog site.

Case management and litigation support software

Legal Vision, Inc., developer of TrialWorks97 case management and litigation support software, has announced that its latest TrialWorks97 product now accepts both Microsoft’s Word97 and Corel’s WordPerfect 8.0 as the word processing component of its software. It also offers completely new screen designs, many new user-selected options, and numerous new features designed to make the lawyer’s use of the software easier and more comprehensive.

TrialWorks97 was the first case management software to fully harness the power of Microsoft Outlook — the combined e-mail/calendar/personal information manager/task manager feature of Microsoft Office 97 for law firms. For more information, call Hal Chambers at 1-800/377-5844.

Civil rights case digest

James Publishing has just released “Rosenstock’s Section 1983 Civil Rights Digest,” which covers more than 250 substantive categories organized in a broad topical table of contents. Authored by Richard Rosenstock, the case digest helps attorneys determine who is liable, what legal theories apply, how to structure cases, and how to maximize damages.

Attorneys can use the book to assist in identifying all possible causes of action, avoiding costly pleading mistakes, recognizing and overcoming immunities, establishing punitive damages, locating winning affirmative defenses, analyzing damages in similar cases, avoiding summary judgments and establishing governmental entity and supervisory liability.

The book includes a logical key-numbered casefinder that makes it easy to get quick access to a broad range of decisions. It contains more than 1,500 case summaries in a 648-page softbound format. It is available for $99 with a 30-day money back guarantee. Updates are published annually.

Listed in “The Best Lawyers in America,” the author has 23 years of experience representing plaintiffs in civil rights claims against state, federal and local governments. For sales inquiries, call James Publishing’s customer service department at 1-800/440-4780.

E-mail for transcript delivery and management

PubNETics Inc., a legal software and services company, has introduced two Windows-based software applications that enable court reporters, attorneys and litigation support specialists to send, receive and view transcripts while maintaining the transcript’s integrity.

The first application, “e-transcript,” has two components: Import Wizard and Viewer. The Import Wizard allows users to quickly import ASCII files from any stenographic or word processing system. The resulting e-transcript attaches to any e-mail program and contains the Viewer, which enables the recipient to instantly view, search and print condensed or standard transcripts without any other special software. The e-transcript Import Wizard can also be used to save ASCII transcripts in HTML for Internet publishing.

The second application, “e-binder,” provides transcript management functions. For instance, the user can link an unlimited number of designated e-transcripts so they can all be searched at one time and viewed without opening each individual e-transcript.

PubNETics offered the transcripts from the Oklahoma City bombing trial of Timothy McVeigh, the first time official transcripts from a major trial were authored and distributed on the Internet (www.okcitytrial.com). For more information on e-transcript and e-binder, call 303/584-9988 or visit the company web site at www.pubnetics.com.

Corprasoft releases management software

Corprasoft has announced the general release of Corprasoft Legal Desktop, a web-based matter management software for in-house legal departments. The web-based groupware product is based entirely on the Microsoft Windows Distributed interNet Applications (DNA) architecture. Corprasoft Legal Desktop provides users with a series of public and private folders that can be used to share posted items and store notes, web links and links to database records and documents.

For more information, call 214/691-9400 or visit the company web site at www.corprasoft.com.