Lawyers are asking for Storm CD’s
Jon Rowe, StormX
Executive Vice President
Image Capture Engineering, Inc.
8710 F St, Ste 128
Omaha, NE 68127
www.imagecap.com
800-376-6989
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“Lawgical Choice was already using
Legal Access Ware and Z-Print from Image Capture Engineering and knew
the company created quality software.”
John Cowling
President
Lawgical Choice
One Metropolitan Square
Suite 1800
St. Louis, MO 63102-2740
(314) 621-5070
Lawgical Choice is a legal technology
company in St. Louis, Missouri. The company was formed by Armstrong
Teasdale, a 200-lawyer firm with its main office in St. Louis, to
provide legal support services to the firm’s clients and other firms.
The staff of Lawgical Choice are legal professionals and always strive
to provide services that conform to the needs of lawyers, their staff
and clients.
“Our focus is on providing services and
tools that integrate with the practice of law,” said John Cowling,
President of Lawgical Choice. “We are constantly looking for solutions
that are simple to use but, at the same time, are powerful enough to be
truly useful to attorneys and paralegals, as well as clients and
witnesses. Busy professionals often do not have a lot of time to learn
complex software. Clients and witnesses are also reluctant to purchase
software that will only be used for limited purposes.” Cowling said he
is constantly testing software in search for just the right tools for
the needs of his customers.
Lawgical Choice was looking for a simple
and cost effective way to provide access to images and database
information to persons outside of the law firm. Allowing clients and
witnesses, for example, to view database information and images, search
the data, make notes and annotate the images would fill an important
need in the litigation process. On line databases are one solution to
this problem, but not every case can justify the cost and time needed to
set up and maintain a database on line.
Another solution was to use Briefcase in
Summation or convert the images to pdf, create an index from the
database and burn it onto a CD. “These solutions,” Cowling noted, “are
static. We were looking for a solution that allowed the users to easily
annotate the images and take notes about the documents during the
review.”
Then Cowling heard about StormX from
Image Capture Engineering. Cowling was excited when he read about the
features in StormX. “It sounded like StormX would be ideal for many
situations where we want to provide access to case data and images on a
limited basis to clients and witnesses.” Lawgical Choice was already
using Legal Access Ware and Z-Print from Image Capture Engineering and
knew the company created quality software. Lawgical Choice also uses
Summation extensively. The fit looked good.
StormX allows Summation database data,
images and OCR text to be exported directly from Summation. The user can
choose what to export, including what records to export, which database
fields will be included and whether to include the OCR text. StormX
formats the data and creates all of the files needed, including autorun
files, to burn the data onto a CD or series of CDs.
A free Storm viewer is typically
distributed with the CDs. The user simply installs the viewer and copies
the data files to his or her PC hard drive. The Storm viewer allows the
user to view the database data, images and OCR text in one integrated
application. The user can search all of the data, make notes during the
record review and even annotate the images. The notes and annotations
can even be sent back to the law firm and imported back into the
Summation case.
“StormX exceeded our expectations,” said
Cowling. “Clients and expert witnesses have commented favorably on the
ease of use and functionality of the Storm viewer. Lawyers like the fact
that clients do not have to purchase any software. Lawyers are even
asking for Storm CDs to take with them to allow them to review case
documents and e-mails when they are out of the office.”
“Image Capture Engineering has done it
again. StormX is a homerun,” concluded Cowling. |
