I have just looked at the Webinar for CaseMap www.casesoft.com and it looks really useful for the sort of gathering lots of facts from lots of sources and trying to stucture them into some form of single report work that do. The ability to instantly produce chronologically arranged tables and reports, rather than the manual approach I currently use, also looks really inviting.

It is however, a lot of money, and I can do most of what it does with exsiting tools - even if it takes a bit more work.

However, I am very tempted. If it is as good as it looks I could pay for it with a single job. It seems the headings etc can all be custimised so I could easily lose its legal feel, and make it more suited to my environmental/ecological use. Having said that, as I spend a lot of time working with environmenal legisaltion and preparing cases for Public Inquiries etc, I don't mind the legal feel.

Any one any thoughts, I am sure some one here has mentioned using it.

I need a bit of encouragement that it is really worth the money - or not.

Graham

Graham,

I use CaseMap, and I wouldn't hesitate to reccommend it to almost any lawyer. I haven't seriously considered its adaptability to other endeavors. When I looked at CaseMap with your question in mind, I couldn't readily see how it could be customized for other contexts. If you verify its customizability in a manner that would make it useful for you, then it would serve you well. However, if CaseMap really can be adapted to non-legal contexts--or even to legal contexts besides case analysis--that would mean I've overlooked something staring right at me. So I'd be most interested in your conclusions.