One of the really cool things about the web and Nextpoint is the ability to create hyperlinks. Nextpoint allows lawyers to take a subset of evidence and make it easily accessible as a link. It’s groundbreaking functionality in the legal marketplace. Its the way users want to look at data today, in stark contrast to the old “file and folder” or local structured database model.
This old model is so hard to use it doesn’t serve as a way to improve access to information, but has become a really cumbersome way to segregate it. This is why we’ll see customers with a deposition exhibits database that is fully redundant with their production database. And multiple databases for the same case. The databases have no simple and easy way of generating and preserving subsets within them. Which means if someone finds a document in the production database, there is no way to see if it has been marked as an exhibit without going to another database. Crazy.
Hyperlinking changes all of that. Discrete sets of evidence (formerly thought of as saved searches) are now generated with the click of one link. One piece of evidence can have multiple issues, tags, deposition exhibit, trial exhibit and traditional coding data associated while being one click away. Lawyers love it because it’s easy, no need to boot up an application, no need to select a window to view, or a field to search in. Want to see all of the Smith deposition exhibits. Just click a link.
