I'm thrilled to welcome back LIT SOFTWARE as a sponsor of iPhone J.D. this month. LIT SUITE includes all of the apps that LIT SOFTWARE has been selling since 2010: TrialPad, TranscriptPad, DocReviewPad, and the newest app, ExhibitsPad. I have reviewed those apps numerous times over the years, most recently this past February when the apps received big updates when the LIT SUITE was announced. My guess is that you already know something about these apps, such as the fact that TrialPad makes it easy to present evidence to a judge, jury, arbitrator, or other audience, and that TranscriptPad is the best way to read and annotate deposition transcripts.
Today, I want to focus on a great reason to subscribe to LIT SUITE: updates. Since LIT SOFTWARE began in 2010, the company has been famous for its numerous updates. Sometimes that meant adding great new features to existing apps, such as issue code improvements to TranscriptPad in 2014 or the addition of impeachment slides in TranscriptPad and TrialPad in 2018. Other times it meant coming out with new apps.
A quick note on that impeachment slide feature: I made great use of it a few months ago in a Zoom mediation. We were in the presentations portion of the beginning of the mediation when another attorney said something that I knew was inconsistent with a deposition transcript. I quickly found the impeachment testimony in the transcript in TranscriptPad, created an impeachment slide, and then exported it to my PowerPoint. When it was my time to speak and share my PowerPoint slides about 15 minutes later, there was a new, professional-looking slide in my deck that showed everyone that the representation that had just been just made about the witness testimony was incorrect. Without this feature, it would have been difficult or impossible to create any slide, let alone a slide that looked that good so quickly, especially while I continued to pay attention to the ongoing mediation proceedings. And the end result was that I had more credibility when I made my pitch about what the evidence in the case would really show and what the case was really worth, which helped to lead to a favorable settlement.
When you purchase a subscription to LIT SUITE, you get every update that LIT SOFTWARE releases. And just this year, there have already been a bunch of those updates. For example:
- A brand new app was introduced: ExhibitsPad.
- You can now share individual transcripts with another TranscriptPad user for collaboration or second pass review.
- TrialPad and DocReviewPad now support Adobe PDF bookmarks when importing Adobe PDF files.
- You can now save bookmarks in documents, and those bookmarks are shared from one app to another.
- A new Speak Transcript feature reads your transcript to you.
- You can now add bookmarks to a transcript in TranscriptPad.
- The user interface was improved this year to make it even easier to view documents. Not only does everything look better, but you can do more. For example, the apps now have a document and folder count under the Document List to easily see how many folders or documents there are in a case, or in a section of a case.
- The apps now wrap text to a second line for documents with long names or descriptions.
- The apps have new keyboard shortcuts for power users who use their iPad with an external keyboard.
If you own an older, stand-alone version of one of more of the LIT SOFTWARE apps, those apps continue to work, but they don't include any of these new features that were added this year. So that alone is a reason to upgrade to the subscription.
But that's just the beginning. As I noted above, for over a decade, LIT SOFTWARE has continued to update its apps, and that track record shows you how committed the company is to frequent updates. So you know that more features are coming in the future, and the subscription is the way to get them all. Many features that are in development are still secret, but LIT SOFTWARE told me about a few things that are planned for the future and gave me permission to share them with you. Here are some things that they are working on right now:
- The easiest and best video deposition editing available (currently in testing).
- Multitasking support, which will allow you to run a LIT SUITE app side-by-side with Word or another app.
- The new ability to drag and drop files as a way to import file. (LIT SOFTWARE tells me that there have been a huge number of requests for that one.)
- LIT SOFTWARE apps on the Mac. These will be coming out as a public beta, exclusively for LIT SUITE users, this calendar quarter.
Finally, one of the things that I like about LIT SOFTWARE is that the folks behind it are incredibly responsive. When a customer sends an email, it isn't answered by some bot or an inexperienced customer service representative. The folks at LIT SOFTWARE answer the emails, and they do a great job of pointing you in the right direction. They love what they do, and they love helping you do more with their apps.
Whether you are a longtime user of the prior, stand-alone versions of their apps or you are a new customer, I encourage you to give the LIT SUITE subscription a try. When you download any of the LIT SUITE apps, you get a 7-day free trial so that you can see what you think. LIT SUITE is an essential part of my law practice, and once you try it, you will see why.
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