Legal Research Center Hires Industry Veteran Joe Lamport To Head Up Online Product Development.Business Editors/Legal Writers MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 2001 Legal Research Center, Inc. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :LRCI LRCI League for a Revolutionary Communist International LRCI Land Rover Club of Ireland LRCI Low-Rank Configuration Interaction ), the nation's leading provider of outsourced legal research and writing services, today announced the appointment of Joseph Lamport, one of the original publishers of online services for the legal profession, to the newly created position of director of online product development. Lamport's job responsibilities include the development of LRC's new legal knowledge management platform and the creation of LRC's next generation of online legal research products. Lamport is well-known as one of the visionaries behind the migration of the legal profession to the Internet. A graduate of Yale University Yale University, at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was and the Cardozo School of Law, he began his career as an associate in the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of office of Clear, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. In 1991, Lamport was the original publisher of Counsel Connect, the first online service for lawyers. From 1992 to 1998, he was the publisher and general manager of Law Journal Extra (LJX LJX Law Journal Extra ), the first ad-supporting Web site for lawyers. For the last three years, Lamport served as senior vice president for Promotions.com, a New York-based online promotions agency. "This hire is an extraordinary coup for LRC (Longitudinal Redundancy Check) An error checking method that generates a parity bit from a specified string of bits on a longitudinal track. In a row and column format, such as on magnetic tape, LRC is often used with VRC, which creates a parity bit for each . The fact that a professional with Joe's e-commerce credentials would choose to join our company is a tremendous vote of confidence in our strategic direction," said James Seidl, president of LRC. "Joe is the ideal candidate for taking LRC's Web-based product offerings to an entirely new dimension, enabling us to create revenue streams that we are not currently capturing." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Seidl, Lamport's first major initiative is to develop LRC's "next-generation" Web-based legal knowledge management platform for law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
tr.v. re·sold , re·sell·ing, re·sells 1. To sell again. 2. To sell (a product or service) to the public or to an end user, especially as an authorized dealer. their intellectual capital by establishing a Web-based system for creating communities of knowledge between in-house counsel and their outside law firms. In essence, the new platform will allow corporations and their outside counsel to systematically search and share all available legal data and information (e.g., legal research, briefs, internal memos, etc.), thus reducing duplicative research efforts and costs. Seidl added that Lamport's second major initiative is to help create a range of online products that will greatly enhance the value of LRC's storehouse of legal research knowledge, combining the company's traditional research expertise with the latest advances in Internet technology. In order to accomplish this strategic objective, he will help the company build a new infrastructure for its Web site and enable LRC to resell its generic legal research content, such as the renowned LRC multi-jurisdictional surveys, court-ready briefs and legal memos. "The high-level responsibilities that Joe has undertaken should indicate the serious investment LRC is making in driving the growth of our Web-based offerings," said Christopher Ljungkull, chief executive officer of LRC. "We believe there are substantial revenues to be captured in this emerging business niche and that the profit margins for LRC will be particularly strong." Legal Research Center (www.lrci.com) offers legal research and writing services to attorneys in corporate and private practice throughout the world. Based in Minneapolis and founded in 1978, LRC's work products include compliance-related multijurisdictional surveys, office memoranda, and formal court-ready documents such as trial and appellate Relating to appeals; reviews by superior courts of decisions of inferior courts or administrative agencies and other proceedings. briefs. LRC's knowledge management services include work product database design and facilitation Facilitation The process of providing a market for a security. Normally, this refers to bids and offers made for large blocks of securities, such as those traded by institutions. , Web site content creation, and compliance training. LRC's nationally recognized research attorneys are honors graduates who have practiced law for at least two years, and many for over 25, in major law firms and corporate law departments throughout the U.S. |
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