Today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire covers an expert witness research service (see article below), an operating system with improved search technology, a smartphone with a video camera, a notebook computer with seven hours of battery life, and a desk designed to burn calories while you work. Don't miss the next issue.
The Next Best Thing to Reading an Expert Witness' Mind
If you practiced law on TV, you would conduct your expert witness research in gumshoe fashion. Scene 1 places you in a deserted back alley receiving a dossier from an informant. In scene 2, your friend and former CIA technician writes a program that searches where Google can't. It sure makes for compelling TV, but let's face it — your clients can't afford that kind of lawyering. You need a more streamlined solution since you live in the real world, not a dream world.
LexisNexis Full-Service Expert Witness Search — in One SentenceLexisNexis Full-Service Expert Witness Search is a service that creates comprehensive expert witness reports to help you with your case strategy.
The Killer Feature
Most of the world's information still resides in private databases. Last year, LexisNexis acquired one such database — IDEX — and then combined it with many of its own databases. The result — more than one million expert witness records with an additional 3,500 records added each month.
While you can search this material on your own at Lexis.com, the LexisNexis Full-Service Expert Witness Search offers you the option of outsourcing your search if you don't have the time. This service provides you with a number of useful reports, including the popular Testimonial History Report.
This report includes the expert's contact information, a summary of the cases in which the expert testified, and contact information of the lawyers who previously hired the expert. For each case, the report provides the claims, subject matter of the expert's testimony, and verdict, including the amount awarded if available. The Testimonial History Report costs $140.
"An independent market study found that 100% of interviewed users were Very Satisfied or Satisfied with the service they received," marketing manager Jessica Carter told us.Other Notable Features
LexisNexis Full-Service Expert Witness Search offers a number of other services. For example, you can obtain the expert's testimony in court and at depositions, as well as previous curriculum vitae and other documentation. If a transcript does not reside in the IDEX database, LexisNexis can retrieve it for you.
You can also order articles by or about the expert. If a court has barred an expert from testifying as a result of a "gatekeeping" defense such as Daubert, LexisNexis will let you know. Other reports list disciplinary action taken against the expert.
Thanks to LexisNexis' "unique expert identifier" system, you need not worry about your report containing information about a different expert with the same name as the expert in which you have an interest.
What Else Should You Know?You can order a report by telephone or on the Web. LexisNexis does not endorse any of the experts in its database. Instead, it simply provides data and lets you render an opinion. The service takes about 2-3 days. Learn more about LexisNexis Full-Service Expert Witness Search.
How to Receive TechnoLawyer NewsWire
So many products, so little time. In each issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire, you'll learn about five new products for the legal profession. Pressed for time? The "In One Sentence" section describes each product in one sentence, and the "Killer Feature" section describes each product's most compelling feature. The TechnoLawyer NewsWire newsletter is free so don't miss the next issue. Please subscribe now.
