Analyzing Deposition Transcripts Using Software Tools
Litigators think of LiveNote™ as a way to capture electronic transcripts from court reporters or deposition reporting in real time. Truly advanced practitioners may even know about slapping the Space Bar to Quick Mark noteworthy exchanges on the fly.
But there is a lot more to LiveNote — and its successor, West LiveNote, which includes features from RealLegal Binder in its Outlook-style interface — than that. You can search, issue code, annotate, and digest within and across transcripts; in West LiveNote, you can search, annotate and report across exhibit documents as well.
LiveNote allows you to set up a color-coded Issues Bar.
By selecting one or more issues, you can click in the margin to mark text for those issues; you can also select text directly within the transcript, and add a searchable comment to the issues. LiveNote also allows you to define certain words to be Auto Tags – they are automatically highlighted throughout your transcripts (and exhibit documents, in West LiveNote):
Anything you can search, Auto Tag, Issue code or otherwise annotate or select can be pulled into a report, selecting all or a filtered subset of transcripts, documents and annotation types. The result can be printed or exported to PowerPoint, Word (or Rich-Text Format), Video, Sanction, Trial Director or CaseMap. It may also be saved as a Web page (HTML), XML file, or ASCII text file, or a comma separated value (CSV) file.
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By: Andy Kass, Director Technical Services, Concordance Certified Software Trainer, LiveNote Certified Trainer
