The California Attorneys for Criminal Justice (CACJ) and the California Public Defenders Association (CPDA) sponsors an annual three and one-half day seminar addressing the representation of clients in capital (death penalty) litigation. Up until several years ago, each year’s seminar materials was reduced to multi-volume hard copy binders. This yearly accumulation of materials created storage problems and an inability to readily locate key documents for later use by the seminar attendees. For example, the materials included on the 2005 CDRom numbered well over 300 documents. Several years ago CACJ and CPDA began placing the seminar materials onto CDRoms which solved the storage issue. The materials are categorized by the date and time of the lecture session they were associated with.

"Attendees requested CACJ & CPDA to develop a method whereby specific documents could be located easily and quickly for use in their law practices. Enter dtSearch. dtSearch allowed the contents of the seminar’s CDRom to be easily searched and identified by keyword(s). This year’s dtSearch powered CDRom was received with resounding approval by our seminar attendees.

"The process of setting up and indexing the documents contained on the seminar CDRom was easy and straightforward. It took about one hour to format, index, and burn the seminar CDRom with dtSearch. I did run into one end user related error in compiling the CDRom. I contacted dtSearch’s technical support by e-mail. dtSearch came to my aid within hours. Last, but not least, I have found the dtSearch organization as a whole to be equally supportive."

Deputy Public Defender, LA, CA