Document display

Each scanned paper document is a multi-page file, viewed in a TIF image viewer

Image display in resizable window, with zoom in/out, rotate, GoTo page etc

Also display any other electronic files your PC recognises – Outlook, Word, Excel, PDF etc

Disclosure – initial data entry

Each Item has its own Document Card, for information about that Item

Each Item’s card holds all the usual information for preparing a list, plus lots more

Anyone used to Microsoft Word can easily enter data by typing or from pick-lists

Add Items in any order, edit, classify, select and sort them at any time

Fast Add screen focuses on key disclosure fields

Optional pick-lists of names for fast and accurate data entry

Pick-lists of names can be built automatically from typed or imported entries

Fast name correction with Find and Replace

WYSIWYG display shows information as it will appear in the list

Disclosure – marking items for disclosure, dates and fine-tuning

Single-click to mark an Item as in or out of the List, as privileged or for review

Documents dates may be real, estimated or undated

Facility to order estimated or undated documents with a ‘sort’ date

Facility to user-define the order of multiple documents with the same date

Disclosure – subjective coding

User-definable single-click check boxes for fast categorisation

Make unlimited notes about any document

Searching and making Bundles

Search dates, description, names, notes and coding for selections of documents

Quick Query for instant simple searches

Query Wizard makes it easy to do complex queries, instantly

Query results can be sorted in date or other convenient order and saved as Bundles

Create unlimited Bundles for re-use e.g. "Exhibits to J Smith’s affidavit"

Using Bundles

Load a Bundle and review the documents and their images in their sorted order

See which Bundles any item is in

Print an index to items in the Bundle, or save it to Word or Excel

Producing the Disclosure List

Set List numbers for the disclosure (or supplemental) list

Print a numbered disclosure (or supplemental) list in the usual form

Save the print report to Word or Excel e.g. to reformat in house style

Print document images singly

Print document images by Bundle, with or without separator pages

Exchanging information with other parties

Serve your Disclosure list on the other side in Word or Excel format

Deliver it to others on CD, with the images, and the free Openlaw Viewer

Designed to facilitate import of existing data from clients or opponents

Portability

Runs on network, stand-alone PC or laptop and easily moved between them

Carry thousands of documents to meetings, home or Court on a laptop

E-mail changed data to others in the team whilst keeping your own notes private

Risk Management - can keep copy off-site for instant disaster recovery

Advanced Features

Link documents as Attachments to each other and show them in reports

Have nested Attachments up to 4 levels deep

Create user-defined links between documents and people – e.g. "Copied to"

Global setting or unsetting of one or more of the 30 checkboxes

Image features

Images can be annotated

Images can be redacted (partially blanked or blacked out)

Redactions can be burnt in as permanent changes to the image

Images, or sections of a page, can be OCR’d to the clipboard

Reports

Standard Reports include options for Attachments

Large number of pre-defined Access reports on case and Bundles

Access reports may be exported to Word or Excel for further use

Commission your own report layouts

Bundle Printing

Print document images by Bundle, with or without separator pages

Print sequential page numbers on image Bundles

Page-based operation

‘Paginate’ a bundle, and then jump to a numbered page in the Bundle when viewing

Bundle Operations

Re-index a Bundle in a different sort order

Refresh a Bundle by re-running the query on the latest data

Merge Bundles, refine them and make sub-queries of them

Make a new Bundle of Items in (or not in) both, or just one, of two other Bundles

Export the disclosure information in a Bundle as a new case

Image Sets

Images may be stored at user definable locations

Multiple Image Sets may be held

Bundles may be allocated an Image Set

Multi-site operations

Support for use on Citrix Metaframe of MS Terminal Services, by dial-up or web

Off-site users may export their private notes, for re-import to the master site case

Exchanging Data - Input/Output

Export data using the bespoke Bundle export facility

Export public data to Access, Word or Excel for sharing with others

Utilities for use with Openlaw

User-operated backup option built-in

Image checker – will test every page of every image, logging any problems found

Openlaw Bulk Item Adder – utility to bulk add new document cards

Openlaw Case Appender – utility to combine two non-overlapping Openlaw databases

OpenlawCase Importer – utility to import primary Excel/Access data into Openlaw