Texas Legal Research & Writing Services

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Texas Legal Research (TLR) is the Southwest Division of National Legal Research Group (NLRG). NLRG founded the legal research industry in 1969 with the goal of providing high quality legal research, writing, and analysis to licensed attorneys in all forms of practice. 

TLR has helped over 2970 Texas attorneys with over 15,980 research projects. Nationwide, NLRG has has served more than 55,000 attorneys on over 180,000 research projects.

TLR offers a broad range of work products, both objective and advocacy. Our objective products can help you evaluate a case or give you sources to cite in a work product of your own. Our advocacy products include pleadings, motions, trial briefs, and appellate briefs.  Our products are discussed in more detail below.

Many of our clients are solo practitioners and small firms. We take great pride in allowing these clients access to the same legal research firepower enjoyed by larger firms, at an affordable price. We cannot work for non-attorneys.

Four attorneys work specifically for TLR.  Our two lead attorneys, John Beliveau and Jami Lampert, are longstanding members of the Texas bar who have been with TLR for years.  In addition, TLR has access to over 20 more attorneys at our main office in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Our Fees

Like most law firms, we charge by the hour.  TLR's base billing rate is $160 per hour.  We charge $195 per hour  if you need assistance within five full working days or less.  All of the rates are subject to a 6% charge to help with the cost of our Lexis subscription.

Before starting work, we will give you a budget estimate.  We will not exceed that estimate without your permission.  Our estimate system gives you complete control over the amount of cost incurred.

TLR's billing rates are somewhat less than NLRG's billing rates, which are set forth here.

Use of AI

Our research and writing is done by real humans, not by AI.  TLR relies primarily upon our Lexis subscription, which gives us access to many databases not readily available to most Texas attorneys.

Like many law firms, NLRG is experimenting with AI as a research tool.  But AI is a tool used by humans; it cannot draft a product which meets our quality standards.  We fully recognize the ethical duty of all attorneys to review AI materials for accuracy before submitting them to any court or client.  

TLR has been somewhat more cautious than NLRG in experimenting with AI.  There are real risks to excessive use of AI, especially without human supervision. 

Learn More About Our Texas Legal Research Attorneys

John Beliveau

B.A., Liberal Arts, with Honors, with Special Honors in History, University of Texas, 1994.  J.D., University of Texas at Austin Law School, 1997.   Member, Texas Bar.  Prior to joining our firm, John practiced in Austin with the firm of Kiester & Lockwood, trying civil cases for both plaintiffs and defendants and handling a variety of corporate and real estate cases.  Since joining Texas Legal Research as the founding and managing attorney, John has completed several thousand projects for attorneys across the state.  His specialties include civil trial and appellate procedure, construction law and liens, and property law.  Over the years, John has authored literally dozens of briefs in the Texas Courts of Appeals, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, and the Texas Supreme Court. Read Full Profile and Testimonials. Click Here to See a Sample of His Work

Jami Lampert

B.A., University of Texas, 1996.  J.D., Southern Methodist University Law School, 1999, where she was a member of the Law Review.  Jami is a Senior Attorney with NLRG affiliate, Texas Legal Research. Prior to joining TLR, Jami practiced commercial litigation for two years with Banowsky, Betz & Levine, P.C., in Dallas, and spent four years with Hartline, Dacus, Barger, Dreyer & Kern, L.L.P., also of Dallas, working primarily in products liability defense litigation. Since working with TLR, Jami has handled a broad spectrum of cases in both the federal and state court systems, including the following areas of law: family, criminal, probate, torts, property, insurance, malpractice, immunity, oil and gas, and contracts.  She has extensive experience with most Texas procedural issues, both civil and criminal. Read Full Profile and Testimonials - Click Here to See a Sample of Her Work

Jessica Akins

Legal Research Services

Appellate Briefs

Our experienced attorneys offer appellate brief writing services for Federal Courts of Appeal, Texas Court of Appeal, Texas Supreme Court, and the United States Supreme Court.

Trial Briefs

Not only do we have experience with legal research, we are also highly-skilled legal writers. Our team has prepared briefs not only in Texas, but in every state and federal court. We can help you with your case by providing additional legal research and writing for trial briefs so you get the competitive edge needed to help win your case.

Legal Memoranda

NLRG can provide you with objective legal memorandum for case evaluation, trial and appellate preparation, strategic planning or any other purpose prior to or in support of litigation or transactional analysis. 

Telephone or Email Reports

Telephone or email reports give our clients access to the legal research expertise of our team of attorneys for expert analysis of legal issues when a written product is not required. This can be a much more cost-effective choice for many firms or solo-practitioners. 

Pleadings

Our research attorneys prepare pleadings for complaints, motion to dismiss, motion to compel, motion for summary judgement, motion to limine, motion to strike, and other legal pleadings. NLRG has assisted our attorney-clients with pleadings in every state and federal court since 1969.

Discovery

Texas Legal Research (TLR), the Southwest Division of National Legal Research Group (NLRG), has assisted many clients with discovery-related services. These services include: deposition summaries, interrogatories, requests for production, requests for admissions, preparation for depositions, and motion to compel discover

Legal Document Review

If you are finding that your time spent reviewing documents is slowing you down, we can help you speed up this process, not matter which stage of litigation. Our attorneys provide the highest-quality of legal document review services, so you can spend more time winning your cases.

Texas Legal Research Office Address

100 Rocky River Rd. 
Blanco, TX 78606 
(830) 833-1922