Introducing West Case Timeline - Custom Timeline Creation in a Click

EAGAN, Minn., March 18, 2009 – Attorneys appreciate the importance of timing. All of the events in a case relate to each other on a time scale, and the ability to create a cohesive, accurate timeline of these events is often critical to understanding the crux of the case – and then effectively conveying this information to a judge or jury.

West is pleased to announce West Case Timeline, new productivity software that creates graphical timelines of pertinent events in a case. The resulting timeline charts and chronologies help attorneys, expert witnesses, judges and juries quickly understand the evidence so they can make accurate, complete and informed decisions.

Timelines are critical both in court and in case preparation, but creating a timeline of important events in a case can often be time-consuming and frustrating. West Case Timeline quickly organizes evidence and creates easy-to-use timeline charts, helping attorneys save time and money, improve analysis, streamline collaboration on important events and increase presentation effectiveness.

West Case Timeline takes you from analysis directly to presentation, and automates the entire timeline creation and editing process, providing:

Intuitive Data Entry. Spreadsheet-style data entry and integration with West Case Notebook make compiling and organizing events fast and intuitive.

Automation and Customization. Timelines are automatically created and formatted as users add, delete or modify events. Choose from pre-set themes that provide professional-looking timelines to help improve your presentation without costing you more time, or create your own theme with a fully customizable style selector.

Flexible Collaboration & Presentation. Insert links to notes and source information to easily reference documents and surrounding facts and share data. Timelines can be professionally communicated through a presentation mode, direct integration with Microsoft PowerPoint®, or by saving the timeline as a PDF, HTML or picture file.

"Our customers are looking for tools that help them work better and more efficiently," said Andy Martens, senior vice president of New Product Development for West. "As a leader in supporting the business and the practice of law, West provides the technology tools and expertise to help attorneys turn information into knowledge they can act on, so they can spend more time doing what they're best at – providing excellent counsel and case analysis to their clients."

Attorneys can download a free trial version of West Case Timeline, and find more information at http://west.thomson.com/casetimeline.

Headquartered in Eagan, Minn., West is the foremost provider of integrated information solutions, software and services to the U.S. legal market. West is part of Thomson Reuters. For more information, please visit the West Web site at west.thomson.com.

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