Legal Research & Writing

Kathleen Aguilar, Esq. (www.virtualartslaw.com) – Assists legal departments as an outsourced general counsel. Ms. Aguilar is available for contract drafting and legal research, legal research, appellate briefs and motions for law firm attorneys. Based in West Chester, PA, she also appears in court on motions. A 1998 graduate of Brooklyn Law School, Ms. Aguilar is a former associate in the New York office of Loeb & Loeb LLP (corporate), and worked as assistant general counsel at AIG and the Corporation Service Co. She has a Master’s from Columbia University’s Teachers College, and is a 1988 graduate of Northwestern.

Nina E. Kallen, Esq. (www.kallenlawyer.com) – Assists attorneys with appellate briefs, dispositive motions and research memoranda in civil litigation. Available for all aspects of cases, from evaluation to post-trial work. Expertise in insurance coverage issues. Ms. Kallen started her brief-writing practice in 2002. Prior to that, she was an insurance defense attorney for six years. She also completed a year-long clerkship in the Massachusetts Superior Court, and graduated from Northeastern University School of Law and Yale University.

Lawfinders (www.lawfinders.com) – The Dallas-based organization provides legal research and court-formatted documents, including briefs, memos, pleadings, and motions, and can also provide consultation on litigation strategy in the trial courts and on appeal. Established by father-and-son attorneys in New York in 1984, the company went national in the 1990’s.

Legal Research Center (www.LRCI.com) – Provides 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. The Minneapolis-based organization offers a scalable core team of over 75 research attorney, editor and project management specialists available to customers on a virtual basis.

National Legal Research Group (www.nlrg.com) – Full-time staff of more than 30 specialized research attorneys. The staff comes from 28 law schools and has been admitted to practice law in 22 states. Many of the NLRG attorneys were engaged in private practice for a number of years prior to joining the organization.

Quo Jure (www.quojure.com) – A full range of legal research and writing services. Quo Jure prepares “everything from short memos on a single issue to finished briefs to be filed with the US Supreme Court. Among their services, they draft complaints, demurrers, motions to strike, motions for summary judgement or summary adjudication, trials briefs, motions in limine, motions for new trial or J.N.O.V., appellate briefs, and extraordinary writ petitions.”

Lisa Solomon, Esq. (www.QuestionofLaw.net) – Assists attorneys with all of their legal research and writing needs, including preparing and arguing appeals and drafting substantive motions and trial memoranda in all areas of civil practice. Ms. Solomon launched her solo practice in 1996, after working for two years at a small civil litigation firm in New York City, followed by a year training law students for Lexis/Nexis. A nationally-recognized expert on contract lawyering, Ms. Solomon was among the first to apply technology so that outsourcing legal research and writing services could be practical and profitable for law firms of all sizes. She graduated from New York University School of Law and Brandeis University.