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Significant member savings on professional services You may be able to reduce your firm’s overhead when you compare
pricing from the following vendors providing high quality processional servic- es to plaintiff attorney members. View the complete list of benefits at
caala.org/benefits and remember to identify yourself as a CAALA Attorney Member with every inquiry.
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Maxene Weinberg Agency Maxene Weinberg Agency provides full service litigation support at
each stage of your case – at the early discovery, deposition and trial stages of litigation. Maxene Weinberg Agency is exclusively endorsed by Consumer Attorneys of California, American Association for Justice and National Association of Consumer Advocates to provide court reporting and compli- mentary conference facilities for the plaintiff bar on a regional, statewide and national basis. Member discounts: Maxene Weinberg Agency is a Member Benefit
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Provider and Consumer Support Member of Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, Orange County Trial Lawyers Association and Consumer Attorneys of San Diego. View Maxene Weinberg Agency Consumer Attorney special member-only rates at:
caala.org/mwa. Contact information: To schedule services visit
www.mwadepos.net/schedule-services or call (800) 640-1949. Web site:
www.mwadepos.net. To learn about additional special incentives for Consumer Attorney members, please contact Wes W. Kennedy, J.D., Executive Vice President of Maxene Weinberg Agency at
weskennedy@mwadepos.net or call him directly at (626) 372-1611.
RealPractice RealPractice™ provides innovative online marketing services, profes-
sional Web sites and leads management solutions to help law firms attract and retain new clients. RealPractice will work with plaintiffs’ attorneys to cre- ate optimized Web sites that will generate the highest volume of potential client inquiries for their law firms. RealPractice Performance Marketing helps plaintiffs’ attorneys attract new clients on Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and more. Member discounts: Significant discounts on Custom Web sites,
Performance Marketing, Local Visibility Optimization, and other RealPractice
products and services. View and compare member pricing vs. standard pricing at:
www.caala.org/realpractice. Contact information: To learn more and to utilize this member benefit, contact 800-964-6423 or visit
www.realpractice.com
VerdictSearch VerdictSearch is the nation’s leading publisher of the most accurate,
detailed verdict and settlement news and research, with over 200,000 reports that can be accessed in print, online or by phone. VerdictSearch has over 40 years of experience in professional reporting and publishes 18 state- specific, topical and national newsletters, as well as a variety of books and indexes.
Member discounts:
VerdictSearch.com – 10% discount; Phone
Research – $80 off list price; Print Products – 25% discount; Customized Data – special member pricing View all services including CAALA Discount Rate and Public List Price
at
www.caala.org/verdictsearch. Contact information: VerdictSearch at (800) 832-1900. Web site:
www.verdictsearch.com Legatech
Legatech is a pioneer of offshore legal support since 2003. Their highly
trained and experienced secretarial and paralegal staff works during non-U.S. office hours to allow your practice to run up to 24 hours a day. Services include Client Intake and Updating Case Management Database; Obtaining Personal History, Records, and Case Details from Client; Medical Records Requests, Retrieval, Chronology, and Summary; Drafting Demands, Settlements, and Complaints; Drafting Discovery; Deposition Summary Member discounts: Legatech offers CAALA members one of the fol-
lowing on a one-time use basis: Free Medical Summary Pilot (120 pgs. of medical records); Free Demand Drafting Pilot (150 pgs. of medical records); Free 8 hours of Paralegal Support Pilot Contact information: Vivek Tandon, Esq., VP, Client Development, (213) 394-5527,
vivek.tandon@legatech.com. Visit:
www.legatech.com.
The ‘Advocate Archive Library’ at
caala.org GET CONNECTED
The ‘Consumer Attorneys Advocate Article
Archive Library’ includes back issues of Advocate magazine articles from as far back as 1998! They are available in pdf format for CAALA Attorney Members free-of-charge! Log-in on the home page and follow these step-by-step instructions on how to access the articles:
• Browse over the “Legal Education” button on the homepage and click on ‘Advocate Articles’ • The default search feature is by ‘Subject’, how- ever, you can also search by ‘Author,’ ‘Date Published’ or ‘Publisher’ by clicking on the
caala.org
respective links at the top right-hand of the screen Once you find the article you want, click on the ‘Details & Pricing’ link for an article summary, author(s) bio, pricing information and original publish date • When you are ready to download a pdf of the Advocate article, click on the ‘Order Now’ button on the right-hand side of the screen
• Next follow the instructions on the screen to confirm your registration for the Advocate article – Non-members will be prompted for payment infor- mation • Once the download is complete, SeminarWeb will notify you via e-mail • Thereafter, you will be able to access the regis- tered Advocate article from the ‘My History’ tab inside Legal Education Center (MCLE) section of the Web site
Questions? E-mail
support@seminarweb.com or call 800-701-5161, for more information.
FEBRUARY 2012 The Advocate Magazine — 91
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