I’ve been using CaseSoft’s products for, I think, about ten years. I think of them as a suite of products – but, unlike certain other well-publicized software “suites,’ the components of the CaseSoft – let’s say “toolset” – actually (1) work very well together, and (2) all work very well by themselves for their designated tasks. Learning curve quite comfortable, and worked well even on less-than-souped-up machines.
I’ve had less success in persuading colleagues and clients to try it; so while I’ve never had a moment of buyer’s remorse -I haven’t ever had the opportunity to try it as a collaborative tool. 
However, I’m current working on a project with a fairly large team, ad hoc in the sense that the team, while most of us have worked together before, not all have, and we’re geographically separated. Add to that some concerns about security – we’re looking at VPN (virtual private network) software – and will probably be using HushMail for intra-group communications – and it may take us a while to test-drive the CaseSoft toolset (which now includes CaseMap, TimeMap, TextMap, NoteMap, and DepPrep). I’ve never understood why it hasn’t caught on, not only among lawyers, but in law-enforcement and intelligence agencies). TimeMap by itself is a treasure – allows you to input events bywhatever chronologcal measure you have available (a date, a range, a “no later than” or “no earlier than”) and produces graphic chronologies. I don’t know any other software that does this, with the possible exception of the MIT SIMILE tool, which I think is brilliant – but haven’t yet mastered.
I’ve been touting this software for years, and I paid, if memory serves, about $1K for my single-user license. And while I’m normally a proponent of free and open-source tools, this was money well-spent. I feel obliged to add the caveat that, in the interim, the firm has been acquired by Lexis-Nexis, they’ve gone through several versions that I missed (I own, love and use CaseMap 4 – but I’m going to test the current version, 8.5 for my current project), and the website doesn’t prominently note prices. (Or they’re there and I missed them).
But I’m optimistic based on my first looks, and will try to post about the current version of the CaseMap suite in the near future.
