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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.

NEXT TIME:  CT Summation iBlaze®.

By:  Andy Kass, Director Technical Services, Concordance Certified Software Trainer, LiveNote Certified Trainer

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Aside from being able to read testimony on a 5-pound laptop rather than a five-ounce stack of paper, what are the benefits of electronic transcripts as you prepare for trial?  How would you like to be able to keyword search, issue code, and digest all of your electronic testimony?  You may already have the tools.  Here are some examples of commonly-used software that helps with transcript review:

• CT Summation iBlaze®
• LexisNexis Concordance®
• LexisNexis CaseMap® and TextMap®
• West LiveNote™

In the next few blog entries, I’ll discuss how you can get more from your electronic transcripts with these tools.  In fact, we reviewed Searching Transcripts in Concordance in our previous blog entry.  Concordance® can import transcripts in ASCII Text, LiveNote™ Portable Transcript Format (PTF) or LiveNote™ Portable Case Format (PCF).  The transcript page and line formatting will be maintained in each import; PTF format brings in a transcript and its LiveNote™ annotations (QuickMarks, Issue Codes, Notes), while PCF format brings in a whole case package.  I’ll note here that Concordance® cannot handle video directly; you can hot-link a video file as an attachment when creating a note, and view it using Windows Media Player or any other utility capable of handling MPEG or AVI files.

NEXT TIME:  West LiveNote

by Andy Kass
Director, Technical Services
Concordance Certified Software Trainer, LiveNote Certified Trainer

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