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Official Court Transcripts of Kobe Bryant, Martha Stewart, Robert Blake, and Jayson Williams Proceedings Available for Immediate Download from RealLegal® Exemplaris™ at www.reallegal.com
DENVER (January 6, 2004) - Denver-based RealLegal, LLC, which develops litigation and practice management software for legal organizations, today announced that RealLegal Exemplaris, its online transcript repository, was selected to house the electronic transcripts for several prominent trials, including People of the State of Colorado v. Kobe Bean Bryant, United States of America v. Martha Stewart, People of the State of California v. Robert Blake and People of the State of New Jersey v. Jayson Williams.
The official court reporters creating these transcripts have authorized RealLegal Exemplaris to manage the distribution of the transcripts to judges, media and other interested parties. The official court reporters will release the transcripts of all trial proceedings daily to RealLegal Exemplaris for upload and distribution.
RealLegal Exemplaris was also recently chosen to store and distribute transcripts from the People of the State of California v. Scott Lee Peterson trial, as well as those from the impending trial against Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. for the alleged kidnapping and murder of University of North Dakota student, Dru Sjodin. The demands of high profile cases has lead to greater adoption by State and Federal courts of online archives as their storage and distribution system for transcripts.
The nature of the Bryant, Stewart, Blake and Williams cases, coupled with judges’ decisions to prohibit cameras in the courtroom, is expected to spur a significant demand for the official transcripts for these cases. Attorneys, judges, media and the public can search RealLegal Exemplaris at no cost. Transcripts can then be purchased online at the court-mandated page rates and immediately downloaded.
“Housing the transcripts on [RealLegal] Exemplaris is a viable solution to simultaneously meet the demands of the court, the media and the public,” says Bill Feid, president and chief executive officer for RealLegal, LLC. “Online access to the official transcripts supports the judges’ interest in protecting the integrity of the trials by prohibiting cameras in the courtrooms; it fulfills the public’s demand for the information; and it protects the court reporters from hundreds of requests for the transcripts from media organizations and private citizens.”
Presiding Judges and Brief Case Details
Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant is charged with the sexual assault of a 19-year-old employee of the Colorado resort where he stayed last summer. The Honorable Judge Frederick W. Gannett is presiding over the trial.
Martha Stewart faces charges of securities fraud, conspiracy, making false statements and obstruction of justice. The charges stem from her sale of ImClone stock in 2001. The trial, which is scheduled to begin January 20, 2004, will be presided over by Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum.
Former NBA star Jayson Williams has been charged with manslaughter for the 2002 death of chauffeur, Costas Christofi. Following Judge Edward Coleman’s decision to change the venue, the trial is now scheduled to begin in January 2004 in Somerset County.
Actor Robert Blake is charged with killing his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, in May 2001. His criminal trial is scheduled to begin February 9, 2004, and will be presided over by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Darlene Schempp.
About RealLegal Exemplaris
More than 300 Federal and State official court reporters are now uploading transcripts on a regular basis, and RealLegal Exemplaris has surpassed 11,000 transcripts representing all 94 Federal districts, plus a new section specifically for prominent cases tried in State courts. Some of the more prominent transcripts in RealLegal Exemplaris include: MercExchange v. eBay patent infringement case, United Airlines bankruptcy, Campaign Finance Reform trial and transcripts from the accused terrorist proceedings for Zacarias Moussaoui, Richard Reid and John Walker Lindh. The majority of transcripts stored in RealLegal Exemplaris span civil, criminal and bankruptcy cases tried in Federal courts nationwide.
Exemplaris users receive the transcript in the interactive E-Transcript Viewerä that includes a hyperlinked keyword index and advanced searching and printing capabilities.
New transcripts are uploaded to RealLegal Exemplaris daily. Court reporters use RealLegal Exemplaris for delivery of their transcripts. In every transcript sale, the official court reporter receives the court-mandated page fees. There is no charge for judges to download transcripts.
RealLegal Exemplaris provides electronic access to the official record 24 hours per day, from anywhere with a standard Internet connection. Specific software is not required to search the site or to browse downloaded transcripts. For annotating and digesting, transcripts can be imported into litigation support software such as RealLegal Binder.
About RealLegal, LLC
RealLegal provides a comprehensive suite of practical software applications and services for improving the business of law. The company focuses on developing practice and litigation management tools to assist law firms, corporate legal departments, insurance companies, court reporting firms, courts and government offices in managing the complex world of law. RealLegal’s applications, integration and support services have earned the company a client base of more than 1,000 law firms, corporate legal departments and government agencies, as well as 4,000 court reporting firms. Headquartered in Denver, RealLegal’s investors include U.S. Equity Partners L.P., a private equity investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., L.P. For more information, call 888.584.9988 or visit www.reallegal.com.
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