In today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire, tech expert Jill Bauerle covers a new litigation support tool for mobile litigators, a new and improved version of a popular practice management application, and a powerful e-discovery search tool. Don't miss the next issue.
Below you'll find one of the three articles from today's edition:
Discovery on the Go
By Jill Bauerle
Litigation never sleeps. The same is apparently true of the programming wizards at Dataflight Software. Hot on the heels of FYI 2.0, released in late 2005, comes FYI 3.0. FYI enables litigation teams to securely access their Concordance and Opticon databases remotely over the Internet.
FYI 3.0 has two components — FYI Core Server and FYI Reviewer. FYI Core Server is the brain — it resides on your firm's server. FYI Reviewer serves as the eyes and ears — the front-end application (you can also use Concordance and Opticon to access FYI Core Server).
FYI Reviewer now sports a simple Google-style search while retaining Advanced Search for power users. FYI 3.0 also works with Syngence's new "Synthetix" technology, which ranks your search results by relevance without any slowdown. Once you find relevant facts and documents, you can "tag" them and add "issue codes" and annotations. New multi-level tagging enables you to place a fact/document in more than one group. You can also send tags and their related facts and documents to CaseMap with one click.
When you pull up a document, the new image viewer enables you to view the scanned image and its text side by side. FYI Reviewer also handles transcripts and electronic discovery. You can import transcripts in ASCII, LiveNote, PTF, or PCF format, and then manage and annotate those transcripts as you see fit.Regarding e-discovery, you can review everything, including e-mail, in its native format with its metadata intact.
FYI Core Server also boasts a number of new features, including true SSL encryption, and separate firewalls for the server and the database. You won't need a Web server to run FYI Core Server, and you won't need weeks to get it set up. FYI Core Server runs on Windows 2000 or higher.
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