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Vancouver, BC, December 21, 2007 -- MasterFile Software today announced MasterFile R3. Designed and priced specifically for small legal practices or workgroups, and smaller litigation or investigations with 100 to 50,000+ documents, MasterFile combines advanced case analysis, fact management, litigation support and document management in one system -- eliminating three separate products and reducing end-user training, support and complexity. MasterFile Version 3 costs $395 per user or $995 for five and is the only alternative to CaseMap®, Summation®, Concordance® and Worldox®. A Personal Edition for students, academics and researchers is also available and specially priced at $278 including the C-Pen Handheld OCR scanner.
"With Version 3, MasterFile continues to lead the industry in both innovation and price performance, while making the litigator's task faster and easier. Professional, practice area specific client intake forms help to ensure accurate and complete case information is collected from the client and then automatically loaded into MasterFile," said Zainul Ebrahim, Vice President of Business Development at MasterFile. "Grab n Go Briefs allow ad-hoc reports to be created on the fly in Word so they can be inserted into other reports or documents, or printed to PDF using MasterFile's professional PDF printer - which also lets users create PDF documents of web pages or from any Windows application. "
New features in Version 3 include:
- Auto-loading client intake forms.
These professional, practice area specific client intake forms help ensure valuable case information is captured and automatically loaded into MasterFile.
- Grab n Go Briefs.
Grab n Go Briefs are the simplest and fastest way to polished Word or PDF reports for your client or other use. They eliminate the need to accurately configure dozens of nitty gritty details for each report in advance -- simply grab (select) the information needed and add it to the brief, as you go.
- Unique Issue/Topic Cross Table
This industry first is a unique view that eliminates duplicating issues when the same issues apply to many situations in a case.
- CaseMap importer now handles CaseMap 6 & 7 case files.
- PDF Briefcases
Whether producing documents for disclosure or simply aggregating PDFs for distribution, PDF documents can now be dumped to a single PDF file with bookmarks to each document in the aggregate PDF.
- Completely new OCR/PDF Evidence Cruncher using Abbyy OCR technology.
- New tools to streamline Issue/Topic coding during document reviews.
- Sanction Integration
Documents and text clips can now be sent to Sanction II.8 trial presentation software.
- TIFF Production
Documents can now be produced in TIFF format as well as PDF.
- Improved production history and Bates numbering control.
- Document binder view and binder tabs
These unique document views allow users to effortlessly mimic paper based binder organization systems in MasterFile.
- Improved text extraction from PDF documents and international character support.
MasterFile's fresh, new approach looks and feels just like using e-mail. Users can be up and running in an hour. Pricing is just US$395 for one user and US$995 for five, slashing litigation support and document management software costs by 75% over integrating competitive products.
MasterFile's unique repository technology, proven by over 145,000,000 users everyday, holds all case evidence, work-product, research, facts, argument and PDFs and other native file formats in one database file, eliminating hundreds of folders and thousands of files scattered across servers, laptops, etc. - and also making backup and recovery a simple task, even to flash disks.
Some of MasterFile's other legal industry firsts include:
- Unique evidence views automatically keep documents categorized for ready reference by date, author, issue, document type, etc. so you can pinpoint and link to any document, extract or fact in just two or three mouse clicks.
- Live, "by Issue" views let you rapidly browse the database to locate all evidentiary or work product documents, extracts and facts by issue without printed reports.
- Argument Drafting System -- lets the litigator set out and substantiate argument directly in MasterFile, referencing evidence right down to the specific extract or fact relied upon on, point by point faster than working on paper or typing.
- TimeMap® integration -- Adds MasterFile's chronology events to TimeMap visual timelines. TimeMap events are linked back not only to the substantiating evidence but to the actual argument in MasterFile.
- Optional OCR/PDF Evidence Cruncher -- integrated bulk OCR (using ABBYY OCR technology) and PDF processing, document production, in hard copy or electronic form, with burned-in redactions and Bates page stamping.
- Unmatched, robust, on the fly, document, database and communication encryption.
- Mobile/remote users, branch offices, co-counsel or clients can work on-line or off-line on all the facts, evidence or work-product without any limitations or restrictions and without needing costly add-ons, Citrix or VPNs. Full bi-directional synchronization lets users synchronize all facts, documents, notes, etc. from all cases with just one click, even while on the road.
Comprehensive product information, video presentations, and 30 day evaluation copies of MasterFile are available from www.masterfile.biz.
About MasterFile
MasterFile Software distributes MasterFile -- a breakthrough product designed for the litigator, investigative journalist, or academic researcher. Combining fact, evidence and document management in one system, MasterFile slashes end-user complexity and software costs to less than 1/4 of integrating competitive products. MasterFile is the only affordable alternative to CaseMap plus Summation/Concordance and Worldox.
Contact Information
Zainul Ebrahim
MasterFile Software North America Inc.
e-mail:
Phone: 1.604.331.0535
web: http://www.masterfile.biz
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