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"Finding Just the Right Clients, Right Now."

Posted by Toby Edwards on May 27, 2011 5:12 PM

Do you find it difficult to find attorneys with new lawsuits that need your expertise?  Do you ever wish you could view a quick state of the industry?  Have you ever found yourself wishing you could quickly locate high revenue companies that are experiencing significant increased litigation in your specialty area?  With Monitor Suite and Opportunity Finder, your ability to find, target and pitch new clients and cases has just become easier.


Monitor Suite's litigation content can provide you with comprehensive profiles of companies, law firms, and attorneys that will allow you to:
•    Learn who's handling what, and where.
o    Find prospective law firms and companies involved in heavy litigation in your areas of expertise, such as securities, product liability, and employment.
o    Determine which firms and attorneys are hired most frequently by a company

•    Know the trends.
o    Analyze litigation trends to make informed decisions whether to target a new market.
o    Turn cold calls into high level strategic business discussions


Monitor Suite Litigation Content provides unparalleled ability to quickly analyze litigation to identify trends and new opportunities for your Expert Witness practice. Utilizing state-of-the-art technology and natural language models, Monitor Suite is able to extract and store the parties involved in cases, the attorneys and law firms representing the parties, the courts and judges involved, and the type of case at issue.  Case type, or practice area, is based on the West Key Search taxonomy to make it easy to understand and translate to your practice area.  With litigation spanning back from 2000-present, you can quickly identify developing trends in differing types of litigation and stay on top of emerging markets and new clients.


One of the unique benefits and features of Monitor Suite is the utilization of the West Company Authority File (WCA) to match and identify party names. The WCA is a proprietary database that contains company profiles for over 2.5 million public and private companies. With the WCA, you no longer need to guess over how a company, like International Business Machines, might be named in a case.  Utilizing the alternate names contained in WCA, litigation involving International Business Machines or IBM will be identified and brought to your attention.  In addition, WCA also tracks and monitors Parent/Subsidiary information, so you can quickly find all of the litigation involving a company and/or any of its subsidiaries.  You don't have to research a company's corporate holdings, Monitor Suite automatically does it for you.  

Monitor Suite also offers unparalleled breadth of coverage of litigation.  All federal dockets from 2000 to present are covered in Monitor Suite.  In addition, with 32 states and over 500 counties, Monitor Suite has the broadest state court docket coverage in the market.


Opportunity Finder:

Opportunity Finder allows you to easily generate and identify targeted prospect lists for companies, law firms, and attorneys tailored to your practice area. An intuitive wizard guides you through the steps to translate broad and far-reaching questions into actionable prospect lists. Opportunity Finder allows you to pitch business to an emerging or new market by identifying and targeting all companies located in certain geographic areas and facing litigation in key practice areas.

Utilizing the market leading Thomson Reuters Fundamentals data, Opportunity Finder offers the broadest company coverage, with financial information for over 51,900 active global companies, representing 99% of the global market capitalization.  With up to date financial information, you can quickly and easily identify and target high quality company prospects that face ongoing litigation needing your expertise.  


Find out more about how Monitor Suite and Opportunity Finder can help you maximize your expert witness business potential. Contact us at 312.873.6881 or 877.347.6360, or find us online.

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