The integration of full text capabilities, associated images and other data files allows for easy access to all relevant data. The Internet provides an excellent environment for collaboration. With a calendar attachment, the event information can automatically be added into PIM applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes or Merrill's Executech. Once posted to this library, these work product documents can be made available to others who have appropriate access to the site. Once the document is posted, users can review it on-line, or download it to their local PC for editing or distribution.
Users can create any number of folders within the library to help organize the library documents.
To protect work product status encryption is used, so all documents posted and retrieved from the site are secure as they are transferred over the Internet. A system can provide a single, central place to store, edit and modify case activities. Critical events like depositions, court hearings, and defense group meetings can be managed with this feature. This posting system provides a quick and easy way to disseminate critical information. Users can be sent directly to the news page upon login if a new item has been posted.