This limits FT's use with individuals outside your local area network, such as co-counsel, clients, and consultants. Nonetheless, LiveNote FT excels at managing transcripts and handles realtime testimony with ease. Using a file cabinet metaphor, Summation can organize every transcript, document, and scrap of information generated in a litigation. Tying it all together is the Blaze search engine, which indexes everything from the full text of a deposition to basic field codes assigned to an image. This approach helps litigators find both the realtime testimony they flagged and all other information related to that particular testimony.
Summation comes in many different flavors.
Each version of Summation also includes the ability to accept and interact with realtime feeds. Even so, for those lawyers primarily concerned with transcript management, Summation is probably overkill. Despite the growing popularity and numerous advantages, realtime reporting is not for everybody. Some lawyers find the constant flow of testimony distracting. Others find that the additional costs outweigh the benefits.