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 Legal Research |
Admissibility of Evidence
Our research team at Lereo drafts 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
Lereo 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.
Articles for Publication
Background Briefings for Litigation
Lereo team 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.
Background checks
Bibliographies
Lereo 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
Lereo team can prepare 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
Lereo 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
Lereo 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, Lereo located five corporations to co-sponsor a national survey of laws on IPR
Deposition summary service
Tired of struggling through lengthy deposition transcripts? We have the solution. Offered by Lereo, the leading provider of legal workforce solutions to law firms and corporate legal departments around the country, we offer a cost-effective and efficient solution to all of your deposition summary needs.
We have summarized transcripts for cases of all types, ranging from patent infringement and medical malpractice to construction defect and sexual harassment. Whether you are a solo practitioner, mid- to large size firm, or corporate legal department, our people have the experience and resources necessary to undertake your most challenging projects.
Our talented team of legal professionals, distinguished quality control program, and state of the art technology have established Lereo as the nation’s leading deposition summary resource.
Dismissed Cases
Lereo 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 Review
We efficiently review, organize, code and synopsize scanned documents in preparation for litigation or in connection with due diligence of a large transaction. We tailor our document review services to the specific needs of our clients. By working with many web-based software programs, we are able to provide the most efficient and flexible review services. We are also able to provide a finished result that is compatible with our clients’ existing document review software programs. So, whether you have a thousand or hundreds of thousands of documents needing reviewing, we are your one stop solution.
Document Retrieval
When you have an obscure citation and need the genuine article, Lereo can help. We can provide articles from the medical, business, trade, or other specialized literature. Our 99% retrieval rate is unparalleled in the industry.
Drop-In Arguments for Briefs
Lereo 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.
Drop-In Arguments for Letters
Expert Witness Research
Has your opponent's expert testified in prior cases?
Can the expert be impeached by his or her own published writings?
Lereo has sources and the expertise to answer these questions.
Factual Research
In addition to legal research, we provide factual research on a variety of issues. For example, our clients often request research of financial and other data relevant to a certain company or group of companies within an industry. We also review SEC filings for company-specific or industry-related information or to locate form filings that may provide a starting point for the client’s filing. Lereo'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
Lereo 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 Lereo for multi-national legal research to support your business expansion and compliance objectives.
Forum Selection evaluation / 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. Lereo performs choice of forum research to guide this critical issue of trial strategy.
Frequently-Asked Questions
Corporate law departments commission Lereo 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 Lereo serve as yours! Lereo 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.
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 Lereo 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.
In-House Memoranda of Law
One of Lereo'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.
International and Comparative Law Research
With the globalization of business, Lereo'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. Lereo'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. Lereo will find publications, trial experience, and likely stance of involved parties. From biographical information to detailed analysis of past trial involvement, Lereo helps you know how to best handle your opponent.
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. Lereo researches the rejected bills, the committee reports, the contemporary news reports, and other aids to uncovering legislative intent.
Legislative Tracking
Corporations and trade associations enlist Lereo's help to track new and proposed legislation that may affect employees and members. Lereo has partnered with the country's premier provider of legislative tracking services to offer fast, affordable, tracking services.
Memoranda of Law
Medical legal research
Lereo provides medical-legal professionals directly to you or we can manage your document review for you at our Project Center. We will assign a case manager to you who will ensure that we know exactly what you need. The rest is up to us, leaving you time to devote to other work.
Multijurisdictional Surveys
To assist corporations and their outside counsel with their compliance programs and business expansion planning, Lereo has prepared hundreds of multijurisdictional comparisons of state and federal laws. let us help you share the cost with other organizations that require the same research, as described next.
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. Lereo team 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
Lereo uses networking to address research challenges calling for unique global expertise; Lereo also uses networking to spread the costs of major research projects across multiple organizations that require the same research.
Patent Services
Lereo’s Intellectual Property attorneys and patent engineers provide complete, in depth analysis, for the preparation and prosecution of patents. Lereo provides customized patent-related services in order to meet our clients’ varied needs and assist them in what would otherwise be a tedious and complicated process.
Lereo offers the following patent related services:
- Preparation of utility and design patent applications.
- On-going competitor patent review.
- Handling PTO correspondence.
- Patent research, engineering searches with regard to patentability and validity, study of prior art references, drafting technical specifications, and claim chart preparation.
- Patent illustration with state of the art systems.
- Patent infringement research and drafting of necessary briefs.
- Patent compliance and technical analysis needed to create infringement-free designs for the client’s innovations.
- Patent proofreading.
Personal Injury Issues
Pleading Drafts
Your new client has a statute of limitations problem, and you need to file a well-researched complaint within a few days. Lereo 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.
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, Lereo is just a phone call away. You feel too close to the matter to be fully objective, Lereo can confidentially prepare a memorandum setting forth the applicable ethics rules, case law, and state and national bar opinions.
Publishing Support
Lereo 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. Lereo team and research staff have personal experience working for global legal publishers, making us the nation's best choice for publishing projects with tight publication schedules.
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. Lereo fields emergency research requests like this and has succeeded in providing evidence rules and case law support in as little as 30 minutes.
Regulatory Research
Administrative regulations increasingly set standards of conduct, but researching, analyzing, and updating them properly can be treacherous. Lereo'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. Lereo Research Attorneys incorporate statutory construction analysis into memoranda, draft briefs and other analytical workproducts.
Statutes of Limitation Research
Lereo 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.
Summaries of On-Point Cases
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, Lereo has supplemented online and library research with interviews of public officials to determine specific requirements found only in application forms and unwritten administrative practices.
Temporary Staffing
Lereo provides experienced Research Attorneys for long-term research projects. Lereo 's attorneys can conduct their work on your premises or ours, based on your particular needs.
Trial Briefs and Supporting Memoranda
Translation Services
In our increasingly small world, one of the most exciting new services offered by Lereo is foreign language document review/translation. Available in a variety of different languages, we are able to provide you with temporary candidates who are capable of translating, reviewing, speaking and writing in a foreign language.
We maintain a large group of temporary candidates who have language abilities ranging from Spanish , French , German ,Arabic to Russian, and everything in between. Each candidate has been certified to ensure that he/she had a high level of competency in business and legal language skills.
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. Lereo 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
Lereo 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 Lereo has researched on behalf of corporate customers.
Valuation of Personal Injuries
Lereo 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.
Website Content Development
Lereo 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, Lereo team 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.
WESTLAW / Lexis nexis and Internet Searches
Lereo 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
Lereo 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
Lereo's Multijurisdictional Surveys don't end with the delivery of the completed survey to our customer. Lereo can update its surveys on any basis dictated by the frequency with which the law changes: yearly, quarterly, monthly, or even continuously. With Lereo's web-based delivery format, updates can be posted as often as the law itself changes.
Zoning Law research / Memoranda
Zoning law is one of thousands of research topics that Lereo 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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