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ABOUT LAWCHEK® & LAWSONLINE™ |
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The initial product, LAWCHEK®, was designed to assist
law offices and library patrons. It was anticipated that people looking
for information would begin in a library. In 1991, a study of reference
librarians throughout the United
States was commissioned by the American Library Association for the purpose
of determining the most problematic area for the reference desk of a typical library. It was
found that approximately seventeen percent of the library patrons encountered difficulty accessing
legal information mostly due to the fact that the legal system of reference and
information is uniquely designed for attorneys and the judiciary. LAWCHEK® was clearly a
product that could fill a need. In 1994, LAWCHEK® was incorporated after most of the design work had been completed. Today, approximately twenty million library patrons have access to the LAWCHEK® system. In late 1997, LAWCHEK® entered into the law office market through the delivery of a robust array of legal products offered by enlighten technologies, inc.™. Presently, enlighten™ operates nine web sites including: www.enlightentech.net, www.lawsonline.com, www.lawchek.com, www.legalconference.com, www.lawyerslistings.com, www.houselist.com, www.homecheck.com, www.medicalonline.com, www.onlineinsurance.com. Offering broadband convergence technology, videoconferencing, teleconferencing, legal research, legal directories, legal portals, forms, web development, web hosting and more...find out how partnering with enlighten™ can make your practice more time and cost effective. |
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With a robust offering of
technology, information, services and support, enlighten™
is a premiere partner to law
firms, courts, government agencies and consumers of legal information. The
crown jewel of the enlighten™ family of
products is the e-SDN™ (enlighten™ Secure Data Network), which offers
unlimited video, voice and data transfer for a flat monthly fee. The e-SDN™
product also includes access to other enlighten™ products including LAWCHEK® and LawsonlineTM. Lawchek® (www.lawchek.com): The LAWCHEK® is a tutorial that was designed in late 1994 and early 1995 as a result of research development dating back to 1990. The product is presently used as a tutorial in public libraries, law firms and retail markets. LAWCHEK® contains twelve disciplines of law with a possible expansion to thirty. There are over twelve thousand five hundred state specific forms and approximately twenty-six thousand various state specific documents. The system also contains various glossaries, question and answer formats and forms. State Codes, State Cases, Federal Code and Federal Cases and other legal research links are provided. LAWCHEK® also contains LetterPro, which consists of one hundred and thirty-three pre-drafted letter templates in twelve different subject areas. The LAWCHEK® automatically links to LawsonlineTM providing access to an extensive array of legal directories. LawsonlineTM (www.lawsonline.com): LawsonlineTM automatically
links to LAWCHEK® as well as Federal and State
Statutes, Federal
and State Cases, Federal and State Rules, legal research links, law
schools, law reviews plus a vast array of other
useful legal hotlinks that are used by the legal community on a daily
basis. LawsonlineTM
contains various law firm directories, law firm homepages, lawyer profiles, expert
witnesses, court reporters, private investigators, and links to LAWCHEK®. Other available services include free e-mail for the attorneys, hosting of URL's for attorneys, a human resources product, special product discounts on various items. |
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Richard Pundt is the President, a Co-Founder,
CEO, and a Director of the Company. Mr. Pundt was also a Co-Founder
and has served as President of Lawchek® since its'
inception
in December of 1994 and subsequent purchase by enlighten™ in December of
1999. Since the late
fall of 1997, he has also served
as Chief Executive Officer of Lawchek®. He earned a
Bachelor of Arts degree from the University
of Iowa and his Juris Doctorate from
Drake University. Mr. Pundt is a former FBI Agent and has practiced law in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa since 1971 and during that period served as an assistant
prosecuting attorney for 4-1/2 years, as well as Chief of the
Trial Division for 2-1/2 years. His principle practice involved corporate work, contracts
and civil litigation. He has been involved in
multi-million dollar cases that included
multi-district and complex litigation, as well
as a wide variety of jury trials
in the States of Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Colorado, North Dakota,
California and Wisconsin. He has supervised the various authors
of the
templates, question-and-answer forms, glossaries and other related materials
located at the various Internet sites. Executive Vice President/COO/VP - Content & Product: Vincent Pundt is the Executive Vice President, a Co-Founder, COO, VP - Content & Product, and a Director of the Company. He was also the Executive Vice President, a Co-Founder, Secretary, and a Director of Lawchek®, the legal research and listing side of the company. Mr. Pundt received his Juris Doctorate from William Mitchell Law School and obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa. He was a co-designer of Lawchek®, Lawsonline.com™, and the electronic Academy of Law™ systems. He was also principally responsible for the programming done on the initial Lawchek® CD-ROM and the various company Internet sites. Mr. Pundt is involved on a daily basis with many of the technical aspects of enlighten™ and holds copyrights on the various source codes developed for the underlying programs. The videoconferencing system being developed was conceived and initially designed by Mr. Pundt. |
