Our teams can handle legal research in virtually any jurisdiction or area of the law. Already they have handled projects involving the following subjects:

» Intellectual property, including copyrights, trademarks, trade dress,
» Defamation and invasion of privacy,
» Rights of publicity,
» Anti-piracy litigation,
» Entertainment law,
» Trade secrets,
» Employment and labor law,
» General civil areas such as fraud and contract law,
» Litigation procedure,
» State and federal statutes,
» Multi-jurisdictional comparison surveys,
» Factual research, including financial, corporate and other data

Value to Clients

» Expert, accurate and comprehensive legal research on any legal issue in any U.S.     jurisdiction,
» Draft motions, briefs and responses thereto, including appellate level briefs for all state and    federal matters (including developing creative arguments in the toughest situations),
» Comprehensive surveys of laws, rules or regulations in various jurisdictions (multi-state    surveys),
» Quick turnaround times,
» Cost effective pricing models (including hourly, fixed fee, and full-time equivalent rates) –    much cheaper than hiring an associate,
» Unlimited access to premium legal databases not ordinarily included in most attorneys’    subscription packages,
» Available instantly on demand, predictable and fully scalable

  We are capable of researching almost any legal issue and providing a finished work product in any format our customers require. Our team members are experienced in brief writing and other areas of legal writing. Generally, our customers request that we provide work product in one of the following forms:

» Memorandum providing legal analysis of issues presented by the customer’s set of facts,
» Legal drafting of court-ready documents advocating the legal basis for our customer’s position in an ongoing case,
» Surveys of laws, rules or regulations in various jurisdictions applicable to a topic or issue selected by the customer,
Letters advocating a legal position based on a set of facts,
Annotated summary of cases relevant to the client’s issue(s) with copies of the cases attached.

We offer research and legal outsourcing to India and the U.S. in a myriad of contexts, including projects related to the following:

» Admissibility of Evidence,
» Articles for Publication,
» Cause of Action Assessment,
» Document Retrieval,
» Drop-In Arguments for Briefs,
» Drop-In Arguments for Letters,
» Foreign Law Research,
» Forum Selection Evaluation,
» Legislative History Research,
» Memoranda of Law,
» Multi jurisdictional Surveys,
» Pleading Drafts,
» Professional Responsibility Research,
» Regulatory Research,
» Statute of Limitations Issues,
» Trial Briefs and Supporting Memoranda,
» Personal Injury Issues,
» Summaries of On-Point Cases,
» Westlaw Research,
» Zoning Law Research

Our lawyers are trained in U.S. and/or U.K.-style legal drafting and citation form. They can expeditiously and cost-effectively draft any of the following materials and beyond:

» Legal briefs and memoranda,
» Discovery requests and responses,
» Appeal papers, including notices and briefs,
» Petitions for certiorari,
» Summaries of witness statements,
» Deposition digests,
» Print, videotape, and animation exhibits for trials,
» Any other litigation papers,
» Employment manuals,
» Licenses and other contracts,
» Review and Abstraction of Contracts, including, but not limited to, commercial leases and other real estate documents, loan documents, service level agreements and NDAs,
» Review and Abstraction of Real Estate Surveys,
» Summarization of Contracts,
» Contract Drafting and Management Support,
» Creation and Maintenance of Standardized Forms,
» Due Diligence Stage Document Review and Abstraction,

We provide a fully integrated, end-to-end, e-discovery solution to assist corporate legal departments and law firms with all of their document review and litigation support needs. We assist our clients through all stages of discovery, including document identification, preservation, collection, processing, review, and production. Our e-discovery experts get involved during the early stages of discovery and work closely with clients to meet their review goals and price constraints. Our flexible processing, hosting, review, and production options balance the demands of the case with those of our client’s budget. The following attorney review options are available to our clients:
» (i) on-shore review,
» (ii) off-shore review (Document review in India),
» (iii) a combination of on-shore and off-shore reviews.

Our attorney review and litigation support services include but are not limited to:

» First Pass Review,
» On-going Issue Secondary Review,
» Factual Research and Issue Spotting,
» Deposition Review and Summarization / Abstraction,
» Expert Witness Investigation Document Review.

DNLBusiness and Competitive Intelligence Services provide tailored business information and legal research solutions to corporations and law firms - empowering them to make critical business decisions. As a trusted advisor to our clients, we work with them to define their research needs and identify appropriate sources to provide them with customized reports that satisfy their business obligations.

Our Business and Competitive Intelligence Services provide you with:

» Flexibility to Determine Scope of Research:
Our competitive intelligence professionals provide the level of depth and breadth you need, allowing you to gain an at-a-glance view of a target company or to drill down as required.

» Tailored Reports:
We can tailor our business intelligence services to meet your research needs and stay within your budget.

» Experienced Researchers:
Our researchers are attorneys and scientists with legal, business and competitive intelligence expertise. They have experience utilizing leading industry research databases including PACER, Westlaw, Nexis, D&B, Jigsaw, Manta, Google Finance, SEC filings, Delphion, USPTO reassignment, Espacenet, U.S. state registration databases, and many other public databases.

With a combination of attorney expertise and leading business intelligence research tools, our clients receive detailed business intelligence reports such as:

» Contact Information Research: We identify and source contact information for the most relevant people in a target company, including executive names and designation, telephone number, email address, office address and biographic information.

» Litigation History: We create litigation profiles for a target company with reviews of case dockets to identify parties, law firms, past and present litigation, patents at-issue and current case status.

» At-a-Glance Target Company Profiling: We prepare detailed profiles of target companies by combining patent, litigation, company background, financial and news article information to provide an overall picture of a given company. The profiles may be combined with a patent landscape to provide an in-depth picture of the IP position of the target company.

»IP Competitive Intelligence: We offer a range of patent competitive intelligence services including:

» Patent Portfolio Identification,
» Product Identification,
» Competitive Product Development,
» Industry Activity and White Space Analysis,

» Legal Research: Our legal research services include discrete subject-matter analyses and broad multi-jurisdictional surveys of Federal, State, International and Local points of law.

» Patent Outsourcing

Our intellectual property attorneys and engineers provide customized global intellectual property services to meet our clients’ varied needs. Whether you have patent outsourcing or broader legal process outsourcing needs, DNLcan help you. Our IP services include but are not limited to:

» Patents,
» Patent Searching,
» Freedom to Operate Studies,
» Validation / Invalidation Studies,
» Preparation of Provisional and Non-provisional Patent Applications,
» Preparation of Design Applications,
» Patent Illustrations,
» On-going Competitor Patent Review,
» Patent Compliance and Technical Analysis (needed to create infringement-free designs for client’s innovations),
» Global Patent Portfolio Management Support (including handling PCT correspondence and docketing and complying with deadlines),
» Patent Proofreading,
» Preparation of Accelerated Examination, pre-Examination Search and Support Documents,
» Patent Licensing and Form Processing,

» Trademark Outsourcing

» Trademark Searching,
» Trademark Infringement Analysis,
» Global Trademark Portfolio Management Support (including worldwide registration/renewals),
» Trademark Licensing and Form Processing,
» Drafting Documents and Pleadings for Opposition Proceedings,

» Copyright Outsourcing

» Copyright Searching
» Copyright Infringement Analysis,
» Global Copyright Portfolio Management Support (including worldwide registration and renewals),
» Copyright Licensing and Form Processing

» A fully-integrated, end-to-end e-discovery solution that integrates the industry’s latest and widely accepted data collection, processing, filtering and review technologies with our high quality attorney review options.

» Experienced e-discovery managers with experience in high-stake, document-intensive litigation.

» Flexible attorney review options: on-shore, off-shore, and a combination of on-shore and off-shore.

» All off-shore reviewers (attorneys) are our highly skilled, full-time employees that specialize in the review process, resulting in higher accuracy, efficiencies and cost savings. Our off-shore attorneys are also involved in complex research and legal drafting; hence they are very suitable for on-going issue secondary reviews.

» Available on-shore review option that provides our clients an opportunity to take advantage of the wage disparity between higher cost cities (such as New York, DC, Chicago, and San Francisco) and lower cost cities (such as Detroit).

» Tested review procedures with the ability to withstand court challenges. Our e-discovery experts and review managers have often testified in court with respect to accuracy and reliability of the review process.

» Leads to uniform, consistent, accurate, reliable, predictable, scalable & cost effective results.