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 Whether you're involved in:
- litigation,
- investigative journalism,
- environmental, human rights, criminal, fraud,
forensic accounting or other investigations,
- historical, legal or scientific research,
- undergraduate or academic research,
- hearings, commissions, inquiries, tribunals or arbitration,
MasterFile is a new class of software, designed from the ground up, to help you: the professional litigator or investigator, or academic researcher, with a case to make, an issue to investigate or point to prove, whether it's for a court of law, for the court of public opinion or for your peers.
Three unique features to plan, set out, argue and substantiate your case
With MasterFile you plan, set out, argue and substantiate your case or research by extracting the crucial evidence from your case or project documents and connecting it to the issues, facts and argument they relate to, as shown in the diagram below.
MasterFile features three novel integrated tools, that work like and are as easy to use as your e-mail software, to manage your key extracts of evidence, issues and facts, and, of course, your documents:
 A unique Document Repository to store evidentiary and other documents, as well as new word processing, spreadsheet, and other work product files, related to your case, investigation, or research project.- An exclusive Extract Repository to manage extracts from your documents because extracts contain your key evidence and need to be constantly available and visible.
- A novel Fact Management System which lets you not only define and manage the relevant facts, but more importantly, actually set out your argument and thoughts with respect to the facts and issues - as well as any counter-arguments, risks and exposures you face.
A repository that works like, and is as easy to use as, e-mail
Information is entered using "profiles" which are simply forms you complete just like an e-mail message. MasterFile has three profiles:
- Document profiles, to store your case/project's evidence, including correspondence, PDF documents, scanned paper documents, transcripts, affidavits, pleadings, authorities, articles, web research, photographs, audio/video segments, etc. as well as your organization's work product or work-in-progress.
Only MasterFile's unique document repository eliminates the need for an additional, third party, document management system just for your organization's work product: you create new word processing and other documents in MasterFile. In fact, MasterFile's document management facilities alone would be sufficient reason to start using MasterFile immediately.
- Extract profiles, for critical passages or evidence extracted from large documents like depositions, journal articles, electronic transcripts, contracts or authorities. Extract profiles ensure critical evidence is not lost or forgotten and save you hours of rereading to locate it again.
- Fact profiles are used to set out each relevant fact, its sources, and your argument, point by point, with direct links to the supporting documents and key extracts,
These profiles are accessed through MasterFile's 50 unique views, which like the in-box of your e-mail program, let you browse and quickly find the information you need without complex searches.
Pinpoint a document, key extract or fact in two or three mouse clicks
Our research has shown that in 90% of situations, when people know the document they are looking for, they are able to pinpoint it very quickly if the document database for a case file was not organized by mimicking a "filing cabinet" but was instead organized by date, by author, by recipient, by document type and by issue/topic, and they are able to simply browse these categories rather than being always required to do a search.
Therefore, in MasterFile, you won't find a "file cabinet" but instead a set of unique views which automatically keep all documents categorized for ready reference -- by date, author, or document type, etc. -- which let you pinpoint any document with two or three mouse clicks. You can of course use MasterFile's sophisticated and comprehensive full text search whenever you need.
MasterFile's repository stores, organizes and indexes everything: scanned document images, transcripts, authorities, research, electronic evidence such as photographs, extracts, facts, notes, completed work-product, work-in-progress, etc. The repository for a particular case/investigation file or research project is kept in one Lotus Notes database file, rather than being scattered across hundreds of files in dozens of directories, so backup and recovery of a case is a simple as copying one file -- your "master-file".
MasterFile's, repository takes advantage of Notes' features, such as its robust security so your legal strategies, investigative conclusions, sources, documents, notes, etc. are secure from unauthorized access or tampering. Databases can also be encrypted, even on notebook computers, so even if stolen, confidential information remains confidential. And for mobile users, MasterFile takes full advantage of Notes replication technology: the standard by which all others measured by.
Optimized for small projects/cases, yet scales as needed
Although, MasterFile's technology can handle litigation or project case files upto approximately 1,000,000 pages*, unlike current generation evidence management systems, MasterFile has been specifically priced and designed for small work groups or the solo worker with small and medium sized litigation or project files: those with between 100 to 50,000 pages of documents. In fact MasterFile is so efficient for small case files or projects, we've made a special version for the solo legal practitioner, investigator or student: MasterFile Personal Edition.
MasterFile is transparent and anyone can start using MasterFile with just the key documents from one case or investigation by themselves, without disrupting technology infrastructure or current practices. Later you can then incrementally scale-up to hundreds of files and users. And since MasterFile looks and feels just like using e-mail, it's easy to use -- you'll be up and running within an hour!
 Watch our short video tour or book a live web demo
and see for yourself why you need MasterFile today!
 Affordably priced at just US $395 for 1 user and US $995 for 5
(Introductory pricing)
MasterFile -- built for professionals who need verifiable facts at their fingertips to argue their case and prove their point. Its fresh, new, approach is finally the way litigation/investigation software should be:
- Innovative.
- Affordable.
- Powerfully simple
*Actual number of pages depends on compression of page contents
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NEW! CaseMap Importer
Quickly transfer your CaseMap® 4, 5, 6 & 7 cases to MasterFile's integrated document & fact repository.
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Client Intake -- Professional, practice area specific, intake forms for automated loading of case facts, document inventories and players.
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Grab n Go Briefs -- The simplest and fastest way to polished Word or PDF reports for your client or others.
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TimeMap® integration for compelling, visual, timelines from MasterFile chronology events. TimeMap event boxes are linked back not only to the substantiating evidence, but the actual argument, in MasterFile.
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Integration with the C-Pen OCR Scanner Pen -- think of it as a highlighter pen that OCRs and types key extracts directly off paper documents or books without scanning and loading source documents
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Personal Edition -- low cost version designed for single users whose projects do not require database sharing.
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Sanction Integration -- Send documents and text clips to Sanction II.8.
CaseView transcripts -- Transcript importer now loads CaseView format (transcript text only).
Issue Cross-Table -- eliminates creating and maintaining duplicate issue lists for additional case matters.
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Faster Issue/Topic tagging -- New drag and drop issue/topic folders and issue/topic tools dramaticllay speed up document reviews and coding issues documents are responsive to.
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Document binder view and binder tabs -- Mimic your paper based binder organization system effortlessly in MasterFile.
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OCR/PDF Evidence Cruncher -- bulk OCR and PDF conversion of electronic documents, document production, Bates stamping, etc.
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Watch Folder Monitor -- simplified, automated loading of new documents as you create them from your applications, including Word, WordPerfect, Excel.
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Free professional PDF print driver -- create PDF documents of web pages or of any document from any application.
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E-mail loader for Notes or Outlook e-mail -- load critical client or evidentiary e-mail, selectively or in bulk.
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Load documents from Lotus Notes databases in selectively or in bulk in PDF and text format.
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