Litigation support software is a wonderful addition to any trial lawyer's arsenal. When the FutureLawyer was young (many moons ago, grasshopper), a trial notebook was the lawyer's litigation support system. If you wanted to find a particular quote from a deposition during cross, you leafed through the deposition transcripts in the deposition folder. If you needed one of the pleadings, you picked up the pleading folder and leafed through it. If you were really organized, you had the pleadings tab indexed with little sticky tabs, and a paper index at the front. Well, Dorothy, we aren't in Kansas anymore. Today, software exists that integrates transcript and document on the computer, and indexes the contents so that a search engine instantly locates any document or part of a document and any transcript or part of a transcript. Once in the computer, any exhibit or pleading can be projected on to a screen for viewing by the whole courtroom. The best software for this purpose is Summation IBlaze, by Summation Legal Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of CT Corporation. The software contains realtime transcript support, full text imaging and OCR capabilities, electronic evidence features, production tools and more. Check it out at the Summation website Summation . While the FutureLawyer has used PaperPort to project scanned documents and exhibits in the past, Summation brings real power to the trial presentation. The coolest thing is the search capability, enabling the trial lawyer to find, for examples, all instances of a particular word or phrase in all of the transcripts , documents, and other materials. Power to the people, you have to check this out if you do any trial work.