What is eAttorney?
A web-based Case and Matter Management System with integrated document management.
Features
eAttorney includes the following features:
Case management
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Supports Civil and Criminal Case Types.
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Basic Investigation Task Assignments.
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CoDefendant or Joined defendant and plaintiff tracking if codefendants or coplaintiffs are present in a single case filing.
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Conflict Checking of parties, witnesses and codefendants for prior case involvements, status of defendants as a witness in a pending case, and prior representation of prosecution witnesses by the public defender or defense counsel. Also, conflict checking of judge, defendant, defense counsel, and assigned prosecutor for personal or professional relationships that would create a conflict situation.
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Discovery:
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Get and disclose case-related documents, email, files or police reports, scan and assign to a case, notify a discovery clerk or investigator of the information received, and in-person, email, or public portal disclosure of electronic or physical discovery files to a defendant or their attorney.
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Track disclosure of all items, with dates of disclosure, so undiscovered/undisclosed items can be easily identified.
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Asset Forfeiture: Property seized due to arrests or investigations can be recorded, including serial numbers, descriptions, and estimated or assessed values. Dispositions of forfeited property can be tracked through property sales records which can record bids and final sale amounts.
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Evidence and Exhibits: Can be added to cases and a chain of custody can be established by tracking dates, times, locations and custodians in possessions of the evidence. Images of evidence can be attached.
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Subpoena generation process: System can generate physical subpoenas and victim/interested party notification letters for event dates for a case, and as a “batched” job of subpoenas for multiple cases.
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Witness Planning Sheet: Provides a subpoena planning tool to direct the types of subpoenas to be generated and the type of involved names to be subpoenaed for each type of judicial event.
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Brief Bank for motions files and legal analysis of issues: Prosecutor-created associated keywords that enable topical organization to documents so that the research can be performed now and located at a later date when similar issues arise.
Document management
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Native access to all your documents in the system.
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Document repository input supported using drag and drop and file upload.
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Document generation uses JDA4 (Journal Document Automation), an example of proprietary technology in eAttorney.
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Supports document editing features including signatures, stamping, redaction, annotations, and bookmarks.
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Provides full text searches.
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Microsoft Outlook Add-in facilitates direct association of emails and attachments to case.
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Microsoft Word Add-in enables downloading, editing and uploading of Word files directly to and from the system.