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Admissibility of Evidence Memoranda

We draft objective memoranda of law assessing admissibility of evidence probabilities, as well as briefs advocating that evidence be admitted or held inadmissible in connection with motions in limine.

Appellate Brief

LRC has a staff of appellate brief writers whose many years of appellate brief writing experience result in selection and development of the best possible arguments to support your position on appeal. Learn more about our Guaranteed Appellate Brief Service.
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AskFirst™ Workproduct Database Solution

AskFirst™ is a web-based software suite that enables your corporate legal department to securely retrieve, share, and reuse workproduct with your preferred outside law firms, legal research and legal publishing partners. Using cutting-edge metadata, peer-to-peer, and distributed database technologies to eliminate document coding and central repository databasing, the software delivers seamless searchability across multiple servers. AskFirst's™ breakthrough methods for extracting and comparing metadata from distributed workproduct empower users to view these disparate resources as part of a single universe of related information - yielding a unique knowledge retrieval and reuse solution.

Background Briefings for Litigation

LRC prepares backgrounders on the parties and key players involved in litigation. Judicial profiles and expert witness backgrounds are prepared often, as are backgrounders on corporations and industries involved in litigation.

Bibliographies

LRC constructs traditional bibliographies as well as web pages on a variety of legal topics that reduce the research burden on busy litigators who need to come up to speed quickly, rather than spending hours in the library.

Cause of Action Assessments

LRC frequently prepares memoranda exploring various causes of action for pre-lawsuit negotiations and as background for drafting complaints. You provide the facts; we provide the elements of the potential causes of action.

Cites and Summaries of On-Point Cases

LRC can inexpensively prepare an annotated list of cases covering any legal topic. We conduct the background research and you construct the legal argument from the authorities we provide.

Cost-Shared Research

LRC can spread the cost of major research undertakings among multiple corporations or law firms who need the same research, most often in connection with compliance-related research projects. For example, LRC located eight companies to co-sponsor a national survey of laws on employee drug testing.

Dismissed Cases

LRC often tackles tough research assignments involving dismissed cases that may be revived by motion, appeal, or a new action. If there's a viable cause of action, our Research Attorneys will find it!

Document Retrieval

When you have an obscure citation and need the genuine article, turn to LRC. We can provide articles from the medical, business, trade, or other specialized literature. Our 99% retrieval rate is unparalleled in the industry. Order Now

Drop-In Arguments for Briefs

LRC frequently tackles research that is incorporated into multi-issue appellate or trial briefs. You handle the issues you know best, and we'll handle the rest.

Expert Witness Research

Has your opponent's expert testified in prior cases? Can the expert be impeached by his or her own published writings? LRC has sources and the expertise to answer these questions. Order Now

Factual Research

LRC's research is not limited to the law. We frequently provide background factual research to our clients on a variety of litigated issues from medical, technical, engineering, and business literature.

Foreign Law Research

LRC has sources worldwide to help address the most difficult foreign research challenges. If your business is going global, you'll want to be sure you understand the regulatory environments that lie ahead. Call on LRC for multi-national legal research to support your business expansion and compliance objectives.

Forum Selection Analysis

The choice of a particular forum from several options may be guided by an assessment of which forum has the law most favorable to the client. LRC performs choice of forum research to guide this critical issue of trial strategy.

Frequently-Asked Questions

Corporate law departments commission LRC to prepare answers to questions that corporate employees ask most often. This conserves in-house staff attorney time for more complex matters, and reduces expenses on preventive law advice.

Ghostwritten Articles

Most authors have research assistants to help with the legwork. Let LRC serve as yours! LRC staff writers assist attorney-authors in preparing draft articles for publication. We set forth the black letter law and put the citations in Blue Book or other publication formats, freeing the author to convey examples and embellishments gleaned from law practice experience.

Guaranteed Appellate Briefs

Imagine an affordable fixed-price brief, prepared by a nationally recognized appellate practitioner, with guaranteed winning results. You provide us with the materials needed to understand the case. We evaluate the materials, and if accepted under our guarantee plan, we assure that your case will have a winning result or we refund every cent of your cost.

Hot Topic e-Knowledgebase

A web-based compilation of analytical legal information, frequently multi-state or multinational in scope, that responds to "hot topic" and/or "market trend" questions in targeted areas of substantive law (like real estate, insurance, banking/financial services, intellectual property, etc.). An LRC Hot Topic e-Knowledgebase will generally include summaries of law, FAQs, trend information, and analysis and listings of, and hyperlinks to, pertinent cases, statutes, regulations, attorney general opinions, law reviews, professional literature and related websites.
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In-House Memoranda of Law

One of LRC's most popular services. You provide the factual background, and we draft an objective memorandum exploring the probable legal outcome. An extremely valuable tool for settlement negotiations and preparation for filing suit or going to trial. Order Now

International and Comparative Law Research

With the globalization of business, LRC's research projects increasingly extend beyond the boundaries of US law into foreign, treaty, and international law. We conduct online research, use the nation's top foreign law library collections, and tap into a worldwide network of foreign law experts.

Judicial and Party Backgrounders

To succeed in litigation, you may need more than sympathetic facts and legal precedent on your side. LRC's judicial and party backgrounders can help you understand the psychology of the people involved in your case, so that you can adjust your trial tactics accordingly.

Know Your Opponent

Find out everything you need to know about opposing counsel, expert witnesses, and the trial judge. LRC will find publications, trial experience, and likely stance of involved parties. From biographical information to detailed analysis of past trial involvement, LRC helps you know how to best handle your opponent.

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Legislative History Research

Increasingly, the outcome of a case hinges on the interpretation of a recent statute that no court has examined. A successful argument may require an understanding of lawmaker motivations for adopting specific language. LRC researches the rejected bills, the committee reports, the contemporary news reports, and other aids to uncovering legislative intent.
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Legislative Tracking

Corporations and trade associations enlist LRC's help to track new and proposed legislation that may affect employees and members. LRC has partnered with the country's premier provider of legislative tracking services to offer fast, affordable, tracking services.

Multijurisdictional Surveys

To assist corporations and their outside counsel with their compliance programs and business expansion planning, LRC has prepared hundreds of multijurisdictional comparisons of state and federal laws. Choose from surveys in our growing library, or commission new ones that meet your unique needs. Or let LRC help you share the cost with other organizations that require the same research, as described next.
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Negotiation Assistance

When you are in the thick of settlement negotiations, sometimes the final piece you need is a case directly on point in support of your position that will make your opponent think twice about walking away from the table in favor of trial. LRC has a proven track record of finding the perfect support, however newly published or obscure, to help clinch tough settlement talks. Contact us today to find out how we can help you.

Networked and Cost-Shared Research

LRC uses networking to address research challenges calling for unique global expertise; LRC also uses networking to spread the costs of major research projects across multiple organizations that require the same research.

Online Compliance Training

LRC has partnered with Integrity Interactive, the premier provider of online compliance training programs for corporate law departments and corporate employees. Choose from our core library of training programs, or customize existing programs to meet your specific needs.

Pathfinders

LRC Pathfinders are designed as a first-step research tool for private and corporate practitioners seeking a concise, annotated listing of cases, statutes, articles, and web sites in emerging areas of law. LRC Pathfinders provide a quick-study guide to a field of law, citing and summarizing the leading statutes, cases, commentaries, and web sites. Contact us for a free sample covering Repetitive Strain Injuries.

Pleading Drafts

Your new client has a statute of limitations problem, and you need to file a well-researched complaint within a few days. LRC conducts the legal research, determines the elements of the cause of action, and drafts a complaint that we send to you via e-mail for your immediate review and final editing.
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Professional Responsibility Research

When you feel uncertain about handling a client matter in a particular way, but it appears premature or too late to solicit an advisory opinion from the bar ethics committee, LRC is just a phone call away. You feel too close to the matter to be fully objective, LRC can confidentially prepare a memorandum setting forth the applicable ethics rules, case law, and state and national bar opinions.

Publishing Support

LRC has conducted research and written analytic materials for the nation's largest and best-known publishers. Our research has been published in print, CD-ROM, and online formats. Members of LRC's executive team and research staff have personal experience working for legal publishers, making us the nation's best choice for publishing projects with tight publication schedules.
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Q & A Service

You're in trial and you've objected to testimony on hearsay grounds just before the lunch recess. Before breaking for lunch, the judge asks you to cite authority for your objection when the trial resumes. LRC fields emergency research requests like this and has succeeded in providing evidence rules and case law support in as little as 30 minutes. Call us at 1-800-776-9377 when you're in a pinch.
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Regulatory Research

Administrative regulations increasingly set standards of conduct, but researching, analyzing, and updating them properly can be treacherous. LRC's Research Attorneys combine the retrieval skills you'd expect of top librarians with the analytic abilities of honors law graduates. What a combination for regulatory research!

Statutory Construction

Building a solid statutory construction argument requires that you know the rules of construction, have the skill and tenacity to locate relevant legislative history, and have the analytical ability to bring them together. LRC Research Attorneys incorporate statutory construction analysis into memoranda, draft briefs and other analytical workproducts.

Statutes of Limitation Research

LRC frequently prepares memoranda of law, briefs, and multijurisdictional surveys addressing statute of limitation questions. For time-barred cases, we've conducted research to uncover alternate causes of action that were not time-barred.

Surveys of Public Officials

Issues arising under administrative regulations may require research that goes well beyond the text of printed regulations. In conducting Multijurisdictional Surveys of administrative regulations, LRC has supplemented online and library research with interviews of public officials to determine specific requirements found only in application forms and unwritten administrative practices.
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Temporary Staffing

LRC provides experienced Research Attorneys for long-term research projects. LRC's attorneys can conduct their work on your premises or ours, based on your particular needs.

Trial Memoranda

One of our most popular services is assisting busy trial attorneys with trial memoranda to support of motion practice. Our drafting work frequently involves memoranda in connection with motions to dismiss, motions for summary judgment, motions in limine, and motions for new trial.

Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist

If your client was injured by an uninsured or underinsured motorist, you know that coverage questions can be crucial to the case. LRC can help unravel the tangled case law related to insurance company liability for such accidents. Our expert Research Attorneys have long experience in insurance cases, and know how to find the authority you need.

Usury Research

LRC has prepared a definitive Multistate Survey of Usury Laws to guide financial institutions and other businesses in setting interest rates within legal limits. This is just one of hundreds of Multijurisdictional Survey topics that LRC has researched on behalf of corporate customers.

Valuation of Personal Injuries

LRC prepares memoranda setting forth settlement and jury verdict amounts awarded for injuries comparable to those involved in your case, together with adjustments required based on locality of injury, venue, date of injury, and other factors. This gives you an objective baseline for settlement negotiations and client counseling.
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Website Content Development

LRC creates compliance-related content for public "consumer law" websites, with a central mission of translating "lawspeak" into engaging, consumer-friendly prose. Progressive corporate law departments and law firms are also extending their preventive law outreach through expanded website initiatives. For example, LRC can work with your staff to identify compliance-related frequently asked quesitons for website integration. Our team of experienced website content developers is eager to take on your website development challenge. Contact us at 1-800-776-9377 to discuss how we can create a Design Plan for your site.

WESTLAW and Internet Searches

LRC routinely searches WESTLAW, the Internet, and other relevant online services as part of each research project. Because our staff uses these powerful research tools daily, we can minimize the cost of electronic research to our customers.

Xerographic Copies of Cases, Statutes, Commentaries

LRC can conduct preliminary research when you don't have the time, providing you copies of relevant cases, statutes, regulations, commentaries, or any other source of authority.

Yearly Updates

LRC's Multijurisdictional Surveys don't end with the delivery of the completed survey to our customer. LRC can update its surveys on any basis dictated by the frequency with which the law changes: yearly, quarterly, monthly, or even continuously. With LRC's web-based delivery format, updates can be posted as often as the law itself changes.

You Name It

LRC's strength is our ability to respond to any legal, regulatory, or factual research effort, regardless of size, time constraints, or degree of difficulty. For example, LRC assembled a team of over 50 researchers to prepare more than 15,000 pages of analytical research in less than six months for a corporate customer. Call us at 1-800-776-9377 to find out how we can meet your unique research challenge.

Zoning Law Memoranda

Zoning law is one of thousands of research topics that LRC has amassed in our in-house database of briefs, memoranda, and other workproduct. For every new assignment we undertake, we begin with the knowledge we've acquired through thousands of other research assignments, putting us well ahead of any competitor right out of the gate.
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