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'''CaseMap Cloud''' is a cloud-based [[Relational database|relational database]] [[Software|software]] designed to allow law offices to organise evidence.

==Background== 
Launched in 1998 as '''CaseMap''', the software was originally written as a [[Software:Microsoft Access|Microsoft Access]] application by an attorney in Florida, who sought to better manage the facts in his cases.  It includes [[Software:Table (database)|database table]]s (the program's documentation refers to them as ''spreadsheets'') for facts, issues, documents, physical evidence, depositions, [[Social:Pleading|pleading]]s, persons, organizations, places, and other types of the data. The program's documentation refers to these types of data as ''objects''. Using the program involves linking the various sources of evidence (e.g., documents, depositions, and persons) to facts that are relevant in the case, and to the issues to be decided in the case. The facts table can be sorted by date to provide a chronology of the facts.<ref>{{cite news 
  | last = Kennedy
  | first = Dennis
  | title =  Revolutionizing Case Preparation and Client Relations with CaseMap 5—Making It Easier to Win Cases and Clients 
  | work = Law Practice Today
  | pages = 
  | publisher = American Bar Association
  | date = November 2004
  | url = http://www.abanet.org/lpm/lpt/articles/tch11041.html
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160305104706/http://apps.americanbar.org/lpm/lpt/articles/tch11041.html
  | archive-date = March 5, 2016  | url-status = dead
  | access-date = November 1, 2020}}</ref>

The use of large volumes of [[Digital evidence|digital evidence]] and e-discovery in modern litigation has led law offices to increase their use of litigation support programs such as CaseMap'''.'''<ref>{{cite news 
  | last = Kennedy
  | first = Dennis
  | title =   Legal Technology Predictions for 2005: Color My World
  | work = Law Practice Today
  | pages = 
  | publisher = American Bar Association
  | date = January 2005
  | url = http://www.abanet.org/lpm/lpt/articles/tch01051.html
  | accessdate = 2008-05-11}}</ref>

CaseMap is owned by LexisNexis. The current version is CaseMap Cloud.

Prior to being purchased by LexisNexis, CaseMap was produced by CaseSoft.  For a period in the mid 2000s, CaseMap was part of a larger case management solution set referred to as "Best of Breed". The group included CaseMap, Concordance, Synge and Ipro as part of a suite of products for managing litigation document review and fact management.

== See also ==
* LexisNexis
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=== References ===
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=== External links ===
* [http://www.casesoft.com/casemap/casemap.asp Official website]
* [http://www.lexisnexis.com/Casemapsuitesupport/cm/cm13/index.html?welcome.htm CaseMap 13 Documentation]
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