Reviews

“I do appreciate your help as well as the tenacity of fellows such as you that develop these programs” – Lee

“Thanks for the great service!” – Tim

“I was using one of the iPad apps for trial presentation, the one that sounds alot like your product (wonder if it was that way on purpose) and it locked up on me twice. I found out the iPad app couldn’t handle images larger than 150 dpi. I tested your software with my images and now I’m glad I purchased DepoSmart and TrialSmart. Not going back. – Oliver

“Thank you so much for everything. As always, you were a huge help and I appreciate you very much. You’re the best.” – Leticia, Brownsville – Tx

“Thanks for providing the service. I’m a long time user of your products.” – John Green

“Hi John – I’m a lawyer in a small firm in North Carolina, and my senior partner asked me to go over depositions for a case we have coming up. I work on a Mac, but I realized that the software our firm uses is for PCs only. After a Google search for deposition reading software for Macs, your product got very good reviews. I look forward to using your product.” – David

“Thanks so much for your service.” – C.Horton

“Thank you for your prompt reply. I sincerely thank you for your assistance.” – Christos

Your responsiveness is awesome – it is what will keep you head and shoulders above the competition. Thanks!- Najia

“Keep Improving TimeLine – I love it! – J.Jones

“Things are different for the courtroom for Mac users. Clarity Legal has produced an excellent set of products to provide Mac users with the same functionality and abilities as Sanction and Trial Director, but in a more user-friendly package. DocSmart, Clarity’s document management and review software for the Mac, allows a user to manage files of all sizes—from those with a few hundred pages to those with millions of records—all in a well-designed, easy-to-use interface. Clarity’s TrialSmart does everything that its PC competition does, but more efficiently. TrialSmart is compatible with all video and document formats, has the same functionality as either Sanction or TrialDirector, but it is designed from the start to be easy to use and intuitive. Many attorneys who report that they need a full-time assistant (or two!) to sit with them to run their TrialDirector systems observe that they are able to run the TrialSmart software themselves, while conducting a cross-examination or closing argument.” – Law Practice Magazine

“Thanks for the quick response. You saved me hours. THANK YOU!” – M.Beckworth, Senior Counsel, Shell Oil

“I am now the proud owner of TrialSmart.” – M.Ahrens

“Excellent. Thank you very much for the app and your help.” – C.James.

“Frankly, your software has made it possible for me to break free from windows and the CaseMap software that I used in my practice.” – C.Bronitsky

“I love DepoSmart” – B.Hersh

“I’d prefer your software immensely. Especially as it’s cross-platform. I’d like to work on my iMac at home and use that work on a MacBook Pro or our Windoze laptops, for example. Thanks for your usual incredible responsiveness.” – T.Davis

“We are looking forward to a long lasting relationship with Clarity Legal. Your software is excellent and your reputation precedes you.” – Tammy

“Thanks John! I’ve meant to get it for a long time and your discount pushed me to do it today. Looking forward to using it.” – T.Henrickson

“GREAT products, I wish more companies would work on Mac OS platforms.” – R.Mac

“Your programs seem to be amongst the best out there.” – R.Bailey

“Anyway, the thing I love about your programs is that they can be bought (as opposed to rented at the cost of one’s first born child) and they have some user friendly interfaces. What’s challenging is that you don’t yet have the Case Notebook approach built in, which, frankly, is stunningly useful.Lest I go on and on, I will finish with this – have a great weekend.” – J.Garcia

“I’ve read a TON of reviews about TrialSmart, and not a single bad one.” – C.Frank

“Love DocSmart on my Mac” – D.Yamauchi

“Fantastic – thanks so much for your extraordinary customer service.” – A.Springel

“Thanks for your hard work on these programs. I was referred to your site by another attorney, Stephen Otto. They look great so far and I am looking seriously at them as a former Lexis Casemap user that is tired of having to switch back and forth to Parallels. I’ll be purchasing soon.” – S.Herring

“Man do I love this program. I think I am going to buy all the modules and recommend them to everyone and mention it in my next CLE.” – T.Kulp.

“DocSmart is much better than Concordance, which I can now say, I no longer use thanks to you.” – C.Cooke.

“The clips were fabulous for opening. Best I’ve done in 35 years.” – K.George

“I must say…that I do really appreciate your products and the premise behind them. We try a lot of plaintiff’s employment and civil rights cases. I am now an all-Mac lawyer and I love that your products are cross-platform and designed to be powerful, yet intuitive. I really like the direction in which your products are going and would like to leave the pc based programs behind for good. Thank you SO much for your help today!” – G.Harrison

“I plan to use all your software in a trial I have starting on Monday. Your doing this (Video to Text Synchronization) so quickly was just outstanding customer service and very much appreciated.” – C.Bronitsky

“Great customer service” – T.O’Connor

“Thanks for the quick response to my question” – S.Webb

“I’m very excited about what you’re doing here. Not just for Mac-heads, but this is foundation-shaking stuff for everyone.” – B.Burney

“TrialSmart works great and playing clips in presentation mode works great!” – P.Marketos

“The product (DocSmart) is outstanding.” – D.Butler

“Can’t thank you enough for this. I brought my partners into my office and gave them a demonstration and they were impressed. I’ll certainly be expressing my gratitude to the MILO community for your assistance. Also just finished coding and indexing my first case using DocSmart this past weekend and am amazed at how easy it is to use and how powerful the full text search tool is. What a timesaver in preparing for discoveries.” – T.Inkster

“I have used TrialSmart for several years and in at least 5 lengthy jury trials. It started out good and keeps getting better. There is a learning curve, but you can be up and running after experimenting for an afternoon. For playing video depositions with text, there is simply nothing close on any platform for price/performance ratio. The developer,is very responsive.”

“Your product (DocSmart) looks great.” – R.Newman

“I actually just purchased Docsmart this past week and have been starting to use it in a case with a ton of productions. Great program.” – Raymond

“Your software has really been a great help to me in my practice. Keep up the good work.” – Charles

“This certainly beats Sanctions which I have been using for 5 years.” – J.Gentry

“Thanks for being so responsive.” – A.Carey

“We greatly appreciate your help on our project and we are excited to work with you in the future.” – R.Harrison

“I continue to love your product.” – D.Hoskins

“Appreciate your prompt responses. I am impressed.” – B.Issadore

“If you are on a Mac and have not tried Clarity Legal Software, you are really missing out. We have used DepoSmart and TrialSmart from their first versions. One day I read an ad for a PC deposition program and thought to myself, “Huh, I have had those capabilities all along because we used DepoSmart.” I didn’t necessarily realize how good I had it. Their customer support is excellent too. Because John really presents at trial, his products are geared to real users.” – MacLawyer.com Blog Post

“Brilliant!” – Vinod, Canada

“FYI, last night I attended a Mac attorney event at Apple Store in Tampa, made sure I showed DocSmart to presenter who was ignorantly telling 50+ attorneys that their only option for eDiscovery review was to use Paralllels on Mac and run Concordance or Summation in Parallels. She was floored/shocked/amazed and is looking forward to playing with DocSmart!” – Drew, Sarasota

“You continue to impress me with your stellar customer service!” – B.Wilder

“This is brilliant, as usual.” – C.Scott

“Things are coming along smoothly since I got DepoSmart. Imported 16 depositions and so far everything is great and very easy to use.” – D.Houghton

“For the last week so, I’ve been working quite a bit (a 403 page deposition) with the “trial version” of DepoSmart v. 1.7.5, and I like it! Your software is proving helpful to me.” – R.Jellenik

“Thank you for your help in getting me registered and started with DepoSmart. I am getting the hang of it and really like the software.” – B.Dwyer

“Impressive product, TrialSmart. Most impressive.” – B.Hill

“In the short time I’ve had the program, I’ve had no difficulty learing how to use it. I like it a lot.” – J.Millard

“I think that your software is a big factor in converting lawyers to Macs, and I will continue to promote it at every turn.” – Ben Stevens

“We recently finished a trial where opposing counsel was using Trial Director and using an assistant and a barcode scanner to display images on the screen. It wasn’t a very smooth presentation by opposing counsel and appeared to be a lot of mistakes because of the challenges they had with the communication and what he wanted called out. We were able to have the attorney use TrialSmart and present exactly what he wanted and where he wanted. There was no talking during court about where items should go or what should be called out. It was a much smoother presentation. Thank you for an outstanding product!” – K.Kluckhorn

“I love this software (DepoSmart)!” – Kevin

“Thank you. Your help, via your software, means a great deal to me. Take care.” – R.Lurye

“I just finished a trial where I used Deposmart and TrialSmart and wanted to let you know about my experiences. First, TrialSmart, now that I have a better idea of how to best use it, was very impressive. And not just to me, but to the jurors as well. I used the group feature during my nightly preps sessions to set up for the next days witnesses and I used the call outs on the fly during the trial. It went smoothly and the jurors liked being able to read the enlarged portions of the hospital records (handwritten) rather that the unreadable blow ups the defense attorney had.” – R.Gurfein

“Great product (Deposmart) by the way and I have used them all. ” – W.Jones

“Terrific. I was using Deposmart last night to annotate. You did a superb job, really. The PDF function alone is worth it.” – J.LeBlanc

“We are using TrialSmart in federal court now, in a $1.5 billion merger case, and it is working great. The other side has TrialDirector with two assistants trying to make it work. We are using it on the podium, with the lawyers working the call-out boxes. Much more effective. Thanks. ” – J.Robertson

“Judge’s law clerks were very impressed with how we can show exhibits at the same time, move them around the monitor and show video.” – Michael

“This product (Deposmart) is really taking off here in Pittsburgh. I get requests for it on an almost weekly basis.” – Martin

“Congratulations and thanks for your hard work on a good product.”- J.Gillespie

“It’s a real advantage to have instant access to impeaching testimony and exhibits. I like the fact that the TrialSmart is simple enough to use that I don’t need to bring a technician if I prefer not to. In this case, I did not want to have anyone at counsel table with me other than my client.” – Rich

“I look forward to using TrialSmart in my next trial.” – J.Walsh, Attorney.

“Thanks again for responding so quickly. That’s good business and a big plus.” – Jerome

“Thanks so much for all the hard work you guys have done to make our work in the legal field more fulfilling! I’ve been talking this product (Deposmart) to many, many attorneys (my husband and I own a consulting business…he is an atty and I’m a paralegal and part of our business is doing mediation and trial presentations) and I’ve got a lot of our clients waiting to see this product in action in a few weeks and need as much time as I can get to load a very document intensive case and be ready to hit the ground running. We will definitely be sending many legal practices your way!!” – Heather, Paralegal and Trial Tech

“Clarity Legal has THE BEST customer service oriented tech support. And, real live human beings respond to your needs. Tech support with a Human face. What a concept!” – B.Ponsoldt

“We used TS to present 4 video depos with exhibits. Except for accidentally deleting video clips from one group, all went well. At the last minute I was told I would be running the machine – which I was hoping would not happen. Oh well, still in trial, but wanted you to know that this is our first time presenting video depos and the guys are fired up about it. Thanks!” – M.Hadley

“Your product is quite good and will make me more efficient.” – J.Timmell

“Jury returned a verdict over $1.2 million for our client yesterday after a hard fought 9 day medical malpractice trial. TrialSmart was an integral part of our trial presentation, and worked elegantly and easily. Thanks for a great product, and for your personal assistance.” – J.Arnell

“I just finished a hard fought 2 week med mal jury trial – jury awarded my client $1.4 million! I presented 7 witnesses via video using TrialSmart from ClarityLegal – seamless, easy, smooth, effective. As usual, defense counsel waited till the last second to make objections to my designations – but revising the edits was so easy I actually did one in open court as the jury was coming down the stairs. I used TrialSmart in cross-x of the defense experts; on-the-fly selection and playing of impeaching clips, resulting in one defense ER doctor looking sheepish and saying, “Uh, I guess I did say that” as the jury smirked. In closing, I played 2 critical clips – again, touch a mouse and Voila! This is the second trial I’ve used TrialSmart in. I had Clarity do all the video synching and they were fast, accurate and cost effective. All was done on my MacBook Air (which was an object of much envy by everyone in the courtroom.”

“By the way, I had an opportunity to use TrialSmart again in mediation last week and the mediator commented it was one of the best presentations he had seen. Rather than harangue the mediator and the other side with an argument about why my client was in the right, I presented documents and select video deposition clips to make my points. It worked very well. I have enjoyed your product.” – R.W. (Attorney) – Toronto, Canada

“We’re totally hooked on TrialSmart – I own two Sanctions licenses and the pc I used for it is now gathering dust, never to be booted up again!” – Jeff

“We used Trial Director before and we got to the point where we wanted something easier and we wanted to do it in-house with our staff. I’m no techie but it didn’t take more than 10 minutes and I learned how to show pdf exhibits.” – Michael (Attorney), South Carolina

“THANKS for all you’re doing to help us. Never had such great service from ANY litigation vendor.” – Barbara – Paralegal, Los Angeles

“We think the software (TrialSmart) is great!” – John, Kirkland & Ellis

“I use TC Pro and use the XML (or PTF) to import into Deposmart. Works Great!” – J.Spillman, Henjum and Goucher

“I looked at Clarity Legal’s products at the last CLVS training & it looks pretty impressive.” – Becky Young, Young Reporting Services (Oklahoma)

“Deposmart has been working out great for me.” – John, Barger & Wolen LLP (California)

“Works like a dream (TrialSmart).” – Abraham Moss, Attorney

“I love what I see so far, and I’d love to take the jump from Sanction. Trial Director is to bulky for my tastes. We average 20-30 trials a year in Texas and from the looks of TrialSmart we might be able to outclass our competition.” – Blake Boyd, LitigationDynamics

“I was quite impressed with your suite of programs, particularly the trial presentation software.” – Charles, Santa Anna

“We have finally loaded the video deps and it works great.” – Michael, Pennsylvania Attorney

“Played the first deposition in trial yesterday (TrialSmart). Flawless. Magnificent. It is simply the most effective trial presentation tool I have ever used. And I’m a tech geek.” – Jeff, Attorney – Kansas City

“Software looks great.” – Home Office Lawyer, USA

“I like what I’ve seen of the current version (TrialSmart) and look forward to trying the new one.” – Rob, Arizona

“I appreciate it that I don’t have to FEDEX you anything. Everything (Clarity Synch Service) is done over the net.” – Steve, St.Louis

“You guys rock!” – Kevin, Houston

“Love the program (DepoSmart)!” – E.Kellow, Texas

“Thanks for the mac-pc workaround. I think it’ll pay off for you!” – Tom, California

“I used TrialSmart this weekend and I love it!” – Jerry, St. Louis

“By the way, your online video tutorials are great. I spent this afternoon watching them, and now I feel like a TrialSmart expert.” – Mary Lou, Seattle

“You (Clarity Legal) are really, really nice and extremely helpful.” – Christian, UK

“I’m not even an attorney and I figured out how to display items on TrialSmart. I can see how people wouldn’t want to go to trial without it.” -Matt, Austin

“It sounds exciting…it’s like a dream come true.” (regarding Bundler) – Greg, NCRA Online post regarding Bundler

“Thank you so much for your prompt handling. By the way, I just emailed my favorite court reporter about your software and how I love it! – Elizabeth, Texas

“I really hope the Clarity people are successful.” – Mike, NCRA Online post regarding Bundler

“I am infatuated with this software (Deposmart).” – Mary, Paralegal

“I would like to say thank you for making a Mac based Trial Presentation program. I can’t wait to see the new version of TrialSmart.” – K.Trout, California

“I can’t wait to load it (DepoSmart) and show it to my clients.” – J.Gillespie, Dallas

“I haven’t been this excited about a product (Bundler) since I realized that the computer really worked and I didn’t have to dictate from my notes anymore. This is an awesome product.” – McCormick, Court Reporter

“The video tutorials are great, by the way. One of the things we struggle with is training, and it always ends up being a one size fits all several-hour training session, at which we supposedly learn how to use the software, only to promptly forget it because we have only just got the software installed, and aren’t actually using it on anything. The video tutorials are great ways to learn tasks as you go. Thanks!” – S.MacIntyre

“You should be commended for carrying the flag for cross-platform apps, especially legal applications.” M.Bowen, Michigan

“I’m looking forward to the new release for TrialSmart (Universal Binary)” – John, Alabama

“Nicely done!” – Scott, Boston

“Congratulations on your launch, this is very exciting for Mac trial lawyers everywhere!” – Kenny, Cupertino

“Ok! These look like great products. I’m impressed.” – R.McLeod, Kansas City

“Congratulations on your new product rollouts. I will pass the word around among my fellow associates who are in practice.” – N.Douget

“Your interfaces (DepoSmart) are superior to anything I’ve seen from RealLegal, LiveNote, Concordance, or Summation. They’re not cluttered or messy.” – J.Nest, Minn

“I can wait to see each new version.” – James, Washington

“What you at Clarity Legal are doing is EXTREMELY COOL. You deserve it. You are going to leave your mark on the industry.” – Pete, Dallas

“I am looking forward to the continued changes you’ve made. Thank you for developing a software package such as Clarity Legal (Bundler, DepoSmart, TrialSmart).” – Griffin, Kansas

“Since your product imports so many formats, I made a good decision.” – R.McMann, Minn.

“I don’t think I’ve seen color PDFs look better in any presentation program other than TrialSmart.” – Rex, Oregon

“This cross-platform stuff is new to me. I have to say it’s nice that you do this.” – Alex, New Mexico

“I like your software, it runs native, it’s Universal, there’s Windows and Mac versions, it looks modern, nice UI, it should take over.” – Marvin, Pennsylvania

“I am a systems administrator and programmer that kind of just fell into doing trial consulting work for a law firm (I wasn’t looking where I was walking). Suddenly I’m finding myself with far more authority over matters than I first thought I’d have, and I just wanted to say thank you so very much for your work with TrialSmart. This utility will give me the proverbial ‘ammunition’ I need in order to get the firm to begin investing in Apple computers instead of the Dell machines I’m stuck with. If I have to use Sanction again in trial, I’m going to be completely bald from the experience. (At 21 no less!) Anyway, I’m going to convince my firm to switch to Mac and purchase your software in short order. Once again, thank you.” – C.Lopez

“I had used Summation for real time depositions. It was always a problem. (Now, I understand that LiveNote requires a per incident payment.) I like it that you (Deposmart) don’t charge me for this.” – Paul, Pittsburgh

“I’ve been using an old version of Summation on my Mac using Parallels. I was losing data and it was a great concern to me. I saw your products and I switched.” – Michael, New York

“I’m just finishing an 8 day med mal trial having used TrialSmart for the first time. In a word, magnificent. Editing and presenting video deposition testimony on the fly was easy, powerful and effective. I used TrialSmart in the presentation of recorded testimony, the impeachment of a witness, and closing argument. There is no way I could have obtained the same impact with normal trial tools. We finish closing this morning and will get a verdict after that, but my verdict is in on TrialSmart. It is a winner.” – Richard McLeod

“I saw you speak last year in San Francisco. I was impressed. I now see you (Clarity Legal) have more amazing products. I am very interested in all of your new offerings…keep up the great development.” – Jeff, San Francisco

“Wow. That was easy (importing transcripts into Bundler”) – Mona, Ohio

“Great Job and Congratulations on the launch (TrialSmart – Universal Binary).” – Lawrence, Illinois

“Excited to see the new products.” – Lewis, Texas

“It’s great to have a committed legal software developer!” – Chuck, Pennsylvania

“I’ve been waiting for this (real-time transcription) to move my litigation practice onto the Mac. Thanks. ” – Ed, California

“I have downloaded and I am trying out both Windows and Mac versions of your DepoSmart product. I like what I am seeing.” – John, Virgin Islands

“I’m glad you import so many different formats. This helps me because I exchange so many items with other clients and co-counsel. Nice.” – Dave, Washington DC

“I’m really excited about this software (DepoSmart); I’ve seen blurbs for some time and looked at the promos on your web site, I certainly can’t complain about your responsiveness. You’ve been great. Thanks.” – Mack, Kansas City

“Thanks for the quick response. We like your Bundle product.” – Monica?

“It’s good to work with a responsive software firm. I’m also happy to know your products import so many formats.” – Clark

“Hello. I am the owner of a trial communications firm that has been using TrialDirector for a while. Though?it is good software, we are primarily a Mac shop and would be very happy to move all of our presentation to the ?Mac/Apple Intel platform.” – Park, Dallas

“I just finished a trial last week where I used TrialSmart for the first time. I used it to sync the text with some video depos – which I had NO experience in doing before. I purchased the program on the Wednesday before a Monday trial and was able to get the three video’s sync’d in a few late nite sessions. ( I highly recommend learning the program and editing the video much earlier, but sometimes we aren’t as prepared as we would like, are we?) The judge even ruled on some objections during trial that required re-editing and syncing the video the second evening of trial. I had some learning curve issues but Clarity Legal patiently answered frantic emails from me on Friday.” – K. Lewis

“Works great!” – Renee M

“There is NO comparison to blowups plus the hassle of getting them made, compared to doing it yourself in Keynote or TrialSmart. TrialSmart presenter will allow for really nice zoom and magnification windows that allow you to call-out certain lines in the exhibit. This makes them larger and easier to read.” – Julie K

“They ain’t doing nuthin’ with their fancy-schmancy high-dollar technology that Kern (Texas Attorney) ain’t doing with his $45 Circus Ponies Notebook and his $300 TrialSmart…” (regarding a column about PC trial support) – Chris S.

“It (DepoSmart) is an excellent deposition transcript handling software… ” – Karl D.

“I’ve used it on medical malpractice cases where the records ran 100 pages plus and could display any page at will.” – Rich G.

“Its call-out feature is great. I have used it in another trial solely for syncing video depos with text. Worked great and I posted a glowing review on this Listserve. I highly recommend it.” – Kyle, Houston

“I downloaded the demo and, as a longtime trial practitioner, I was very impressed” – Nate D.

“Why don’t you take a look at TrialSmart. It appears to do everything. . . and then some and does it in OS X.” – Ed

“I’m terribly happy to see such software being developed for the Mac.” – Marvin, UK

“I was fairly impressed with what it (DepoSmart) says it can do. Maybe you can do all that with the right combination of applications, but it would take more tech-savvy than I have to tie it all together in what looks like a pretty seamless package.” – Dugan B.

“I have been taking a look at the TrialSmart software. As an English (UK) lawyer I am flabbergasted. I really do not think we have anything like that over here at all. To be honest I am totally bamboozled by the amount of features.” – Liam, UK Lawyer

“This happens to me today every time I am in a deposition, mediation, arbitration, hearing, trial, etc. I just had a large case with one of the largest firms in Las Vegas. We are taking an entire floor large downtown bank building big, $600 an hour and up. Opposing counsel was an equity partner. When we would go in depositions and she would have three bankers boxes of relevant papers and her legal assistant to pull files, I would walk in with my MackBookPro and briefcase. I could see her catching a glimpse of my screen from time to time, during breaks, etc. With all the data I had at my fingertips (thanks to being all electronic) in what was a complex case with a lot of paper, she was dumbfounded. She commented that when the case was over she wanted me to come in and set her up so that she could have all her files accessible as mine were. Thank the Mac Gods for TrialSmart, Notebook, Acrobat, iMovie, Excel, Canon portable, and my scanner and that they all work flawlessly, quickly and WITHOUT crashing every two seconds. It leveled the playing field for me in a MAJOR way.” – MacLaw User

“Thank You!” – Ron P, Washington

“Can’t wait to try your software on my iMac G5″ – Robert, Florida

“Trial software for the Mac – I’m wiping the tears from my eyes – thank you” -Tom, Wyoming

“From the looks of it, your package does far more than I need it to.” – Paymon, Illinois

“Great Product! I am a consultant working with a law firm who is considering converting completely to Apple hardware and OS X.” – James, Texas

“Thanks for this fantastic program” – John, London (UK)

“I’m excited about this app and its application to my trial practice.” – Peter, Texas

“I am a TrialDirector user and I definitely like the look of TrialSmart.” – John, Illinois

“Contact me immediately. I have been using Sanction II but I prefer to go MAC route If I can for an upcoming trial” – Kirti, California

“We use Macs and that we have been struggling with VISync. I am very anxious to try to your product. Thank you.” – Alex, Virginia

“Where have you been? I’ve been searching for a year for something like your product & had to resort to buying a wintel & trialdirector.” Abraham, Texas

“I am a certified legal video specialist, new to the industry, and looking for a comprehensive Mac solution – thanks for TrialSmart.” – Gene, California

“My prayers have been answered!! I’ve always used Mac but have recently started using a Dell laptop to run a PC based trial presentation software which you may already be familiar with known as Sanction. It has always worked fine for me and my clients. But its time that the legal community gets a taste of quality trial presentation.” – Steve

“This sounds like a great product (Bundler). I’m thrilled I found it.” – Janie, Court Reporter