Legal Research Center
Minneapolis-based Legal Research Center offers legal research, knowledge management, and regulatory compliance services to attorneys in corporate and private practice throughout the world. LRC’s legal research services include domestic and international multijurisdictional surveys, e-knowledgebases, trial and appellate briefs, and office memoranda. LRC’s research management services include workproduct database design and facilitation, and web portal development and maintenance. LRC’s Integrity Interactive™ regulatory compliance services include risk assessment, story-based training, automated administration, integrated testing, and secure reporting.
LRC has a scalable core team of over 75 research attorney, editor and project management specialists available to our customers on a virtual basis. Additionally, LRC accesses a global network of legal subject-matter experts in all areas of substantive law, who work in collaboration with our core team on an as-needed basis. LRC’s research attorneys are honors graduates who have practiced law for at least two years, and many for over twenty-five, in major law firms and corporate law departments throughout the United States. The corporate vision of LRC is to remain the nation's premier provider of outsourced legal research services, culturally committed to operational excellence, customer intimacy, and product/service innovation.
Service and Product Offerings
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Corporate Compliance:
LRC’s Multijurisdictional Surveys report the statutes, regulations, and case law related to a specific legal topic on a multistate and multinational basis. Surveys are ideal for identifying the best markets for expansion, and for minimizing liability in corporate policies, product design, consumer literature, and other business activities. Counsel may purchase existing surveys at a fraction of the original price or commission their own customized surveys at a low fixed fee. Cost-sharing and cost-recoupment provide further dollar-saving benefits. Surveys can be delivered on paper, electronic file, disk, CD-ROM, or via the web.
LRC’s Compliance LegalScans™ leverage our 26 years of industry-leading legislative and regulatory tracking experience, by providing a turn-key compliance monitoring solution for LRC corporate and law firm customers in the commercial and consumer banking, financial services, energy, insurance, pharmaceutical, healthcare and securities industries. LRC’s Compliance LegalScan™ is ideal for cost-efficiently tracking legislation, regulations, agency notices, attorney general opinions, and other customizable compliance-related information “feeds” in all U.S. jurisdictions – national, state, regional, and even municipal, if required.
LRC’s Hot-Topic e-Knowledgebases™ are web-based compilations of analytical legal information, frequently multinational in scope, that respond 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™ may include legislative, regulatory, and case law summaries; legal trend analyses and statistical data; FAQs and encyclopedic content; links to source materials; and a range of other features.
LRC’s Integrity Interactive Compliance Training applies the power of Internet learning technology to the challenge of teaching corporate employees how to comply with various regulatory and other legal requirements, such as antitrust, electronic communications, sexual harassment, FCPA, conflicts of interest, insider trading and export control. Far more than a simple Internet course library, Integrity Interactive’s online compliance training program offers an integrated technology solution that reduces a company’s legal exposure to compliance failures.
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Research Management Services:
LRC’s AskFirst® Research Management Solution 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.
LRC’s KM Advisory Services are delivered by world-class Knowledge Management (KM) experts from Prism Legal Consulting and LRC, who provide a three-step “assess-design-deploy” solution for law department and law firm customers who want to benefit from a customized set of legal KM “best-practices” on an enterprise-wide basis.
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Legal Research:
LRC’s Legal Research & Writing Service has completed tens of thousands of research assignments in its twenty six years of doing business. Our Research Attorneys have researched hundreds of thousands of legal issues, in all areas of law. Service includes research, fact-and-issue analysis, and writing on a project-by-project basis. A project may involve any number of issues – from the simple to the complex. The final workproduct could be a short letter, an in-depth memorandum or a formal brief for a local, state, or federal court.
LRC’s Guaranteed Appellate Brief Service offers a 100% money-back guarantee that the lawyer using the service will win his or her case. With LRC’s Guaranteed Appellate Brief Service, the lawyer preparing an appeal simply provides one of LRC’s appellate specialists with the relevant facts needed to understand the case. LRC then performs a no-cost evaluation and presents a fixed-price estimate to prepare the appellate brief. Cases qualify for the guarantee as long as the merits of the appeal are compelling, the success probabilities are sufficiently high, and the preliminary research is sufficiently supportive.
LRC’s Factual Research, Case Valuation and Document Services tap hundreds of databases and libraries all over the world to effectively respond to the nonlegal factual information needs of its clients. LRC locates product information, case valuation data, biomedical information, competitive intelligence, essentially any type of information an attorney might need. And through its global network of libraries and information resources, LRC provides copies of any document requested.
LRC’s Library Services offer a full range of cost-effective library consulting, staffing, management, and training services to law firms and corporate law departments. No other company in the country has the combined library, research, technological, and publishing expertise that LRC offers.
LRC’s Contract Attorney Service provides highly credentialed attorneys to law firms and corporate law departments on a full- or part-time, temporary or permanent basis. Responding to your need to control costs while effectively managing workload variances, pricing depends upon the level of experience of the placed attorney and the number of hours for which you contract. In most cases, costs will be lower than for a staff attorney.