NATLE Justice Partners

TrialSmith is a family of brands including TrialSmith, SeminarWeb and MemberCentral. Our services are designed to provide valuable tools to trial lawyer members, and solutions for help your manage your association. We’re proud to be a Platinum sponsor of NATLE. Please contact Kent Hughes or Mauricio Fonseca at 800-443-1757 for more information. The more you participate in TrialSmith, NATLE's Webinar Series, MemberCentral, and the Ad Network with our Sponsorship Program, the more it supports NATLE and generates non-dues revenue for NATLE and participating TLAs, and reduces your list server costs. In fact, in 2022, TrialSmith paid more than $70,000 to NATLE, and more than $421,000 to NATLE members.

TrialSmith gives plaintiff lawyers access to in-depth research on expert witnesses via your website. That includes instant access to more than 680,000 expert depositions, court testimony, Daubert challenges, disciplinary actions, similar cases and more. Partnering with TrialSmith gives your members ala-carte access to a deposition database at your website. Your members can search and purchase depositions ala-carte without subscribing to TrialSmith. In addition, your members can drag and drop upload hundreds of depositions and earn credits. Your members can also perform a Single Search at your association to scan all of your association’s resources, simultaneously scanning all of TrialSmith and your List Servers - a unique and powerful tool for members. TrialSmith generates non-dues revenue in the form of royalties from purchases and subscriptions.

E-Clips™ - TrialSmith publishes E-Clips, a long-standing daily news publication containing abstracts of case news from the media. It’s sent weekdays to your members under your association brand and logo, and from your association executive director or other designate. You can optionally add your own news articles each day, automatically feature upcoming events from your calendar, automatically feature on-demand CLE, and you can automatically or manually release each daily edition. Publishing E-Clips creates an opportunity to generate non-dues revenue by including sponsor ads, and generates monthly royalties for your association.

Digital Ad Management System for Sponsors - MemberCentral’s sponsor ad management system lets you bolster your sponsor program by featuring advertisers in the most highly visible and trafficked areas of your website: Search Engine Ads, List Server Viewer Ads, List Server Message Footers Ads, List Server Digest Header and Footer Ads, Login Page Ads, and E-Clips Ad. These advertising areas receive the most hits, clicks and page views on your website, and it’s a great opportunity to generate non-dues revenue, or provide additional value to your key sponsors.

MemberCentral, a division of TrialSmith, helps you serve members with an integrated web site, list servers, secure file shares, powerful search engine, list archives and TrialSmith databases. Plus, our membership solution provides all the tools your staff needs to manage receivables and billing, dues renewals, events, PAC, fundraising, publications, and your website content. Our world-class support connects you with live support professionals who can assist your team on-demand.

Key features and services include:

Service and Support

• Professional U.S. Based Support Available Live by Phone or Email
• Dedicated Project Management and Consultation for Implementations and New Features
• Frequent Product Enhancements and Updates via Email, Webinars, and Knowledgebase
• Assistance Running/Scheduling Reports, Creating Dashboards, and Reconciling Financial Data

Events and Online Learning

• Turnkey Registration with Ticketing for Special Events, Custom Fields, Coupons, and More!
• CLE Credit Tracking with MyCLE Page for Members to Review Progress
• Integrated Online Learning Platform for Live Webinars and Self-Paced Courses
• Automated Confirmation Emails and Tools for Emailing Registrants or Distributing Materials

Collaboration & Communication

• Discussion List Servers with Daily Digests and Unlimited Archiving of Messages
• Integrated Email Marketing Solution for Targeted, Mobile-Friendly Emails
• Personalized MyPage for Member Activity Feeds and Announcements
• Private eCommunities with File-Sharing, List Archive, Directories, Blog, Calendar, and More!

Management of Mobile-Friendly Websites

• Support for Permissioning Access to Content Using Dynamic Groups
• Member and Vendor Directories Automatically Populated by the Database
• Blog and eNewsletter Publishing Tools with Searchable Archive of Past Issues
• Online Store with Electronic Fulfillment and Job Bank for Opening and Candidate Resumes

Member Management

• Dues and Billing with Personalized Links to Renew and Bypass Login

• Automated Recurring Billing for Customizable Payment Schedules
• Support for Complex Membership Structures and Add-ons
• 360 View of Member Activity and Profile Including Self-Service Tools for Member Updates

Contributions and Fundraising

• Build Your Own Online Donation Forms with Recurring, Perpetual and One-Time Giving Options

• Create Member-to-Member Solicitation Campaigns for Fundraising, Membership, and Retention
• Support for Multiple Entities to Separate Association Funds from PAC or Foundation
• Custom Tool for Importing Payments Made by Members Directly to AAJ

SeminarWeb, a division of TrialSmith, is our online education solution, integrated with your website, providing your members with seamless self-paced online learning. SeminarWeb also provides professional services to host your webinars, allowing you to focus on program selection and content, outsourcing the staff and technical duties of managing speakers and live meetings and multi-track online events. Our managed approach helps your staff do more to increase non-dues revenue by leveraging our team of education experts.

NATLE National Webinar Series. TrialSmith works with NATLE members to create and host 6 national webinars each month. The program gives your members access to specialized topics, national speakers, plus an opportunity to feature your key members before a national audience, while generating non-dues revenue.

Contact: Kent Hughes (kenthughes@trialsmith.com), Mauricio Fonseca (mfonseca@membercentral.com)

Whether you’re a plaintiff law firm that needs resources to advocate on behalf of your clients, or a capital provider looking to put your investment dollars to work, you can trust Counsel Financial to serve your needs.

For contingent-fee firms, we offer strategic funding that leverages your future case fees to unlock immediate resources. Our goal is to empower you to take on strong cases, invest in client advocacy, and accelerate your practice growth.

For capital partners, our origination, underwriting, and loan servicing solutions ensure you have the opportunity and confidence to grow your litigation investment portfolio.

In both cases, we hold fast to the principle that Contingent Fees Make Great Collateral®. Our experienced team has mastered the complex practice of underwriting contingent assets, which enables us to de-risk litigation financing for all parties. 

We take great pride in being your trusted partner. That’s why we tailor our facilities to suit your unique circumstances and goals. We maintain close collaboration with you over the life of your loan or investment to support your evolving needs.

Because above all, we are here to make you successful.

Contact: Kimberly Zimmerman (Kim@counselfinancial.com)

Gold Justice Partners

Ringler is the largest settlement planning company in the United States with over 250 professionals in more than 70 offices nationwide since it was established in 1975. Ringler's team of expert and objective consultants has earned the trust of all parties involved in the settlement process. Ringler consultants take an individualized, customer-focused approach to each case, backed by the strength and resources of a national brand, to collaborate with injured people, attorneys and insurance professionals. We provide the most effective and fair settlement solutions in the industry and our dedication to being the most innovative and acknowledged leader in the profession continues to be our top priority.

Preferred Capital Funding is among the leading providers of funding options for injury or workers’ compensation lawsuits. When a plaintiff is going through a lawsuit, he or she still needs money to pay the bills.

We provide funding anywhere from $500 to $500,000—all depending on what you need and the nature of your case.

Our company was the first lawsuit funding provider in the nation. After over 20 years in business, we receive most of our business from attorneys directly. They have come to trust and rely on us.

We are owned and managed by lawyers who understand what plaintiffs and advocates need. Lawsuits take time, and good attorneys move carefully. Our service allows clients to make the best possible decisions for their case because they aren’t being pressured to settle quickly.

Why We Provide Funding

As attorneys, we understand a case can take months or even years to resolve. Your injury, whether it was a car accident, a job injury, or a slip-and-fall, has already thrown your life for a loop. Your lawsuit is taking a long time to resolve—and you’re still receiving monthly bills. Simply put, you need cash.

Preferred Capital Funding is the cash lifeline many injured victims need. We give our customers the cash they need until their case is resolved, allowing them to build a normal life while their attorney works to get them a full and fair settlement.

Contact: Jason Porter (jason@pcfcash.com)

Built by attorneys for attorneys, Esquire Bank not only understands law firms’ unique financial needs, we strive to exceed your expectations with a host of attorney-specific solutions delivered by a dedicated Relationship Manager. At Esquire Bank, you’ll get the capital you need to finance your case costs and grow your case inventory with leading-edge tools and technology to help you more effectively and efficiently manage and grow your business—all delivered by a dedicated financial partner who practices the business of law every day.

We offer our services in all 50 states and currently have clients in 38 of those states.  We are looking to expand our reach to all injury attorneys in the nation and feel that partnering with NATLE would be the perfect opportunity to do so.

Clio is the world’s leading provider of cloud-based legal technology, trusted by 150,000 legal professionals in 130+ countries. As the industry’s only end-to-end software solution, Clio centralizes client intake, case management, document automation, payments, accounting and more—powered by AI on its unified platform. Clio has earned the endorsement from over 100+ law societies, bar and trial lawyer associations around the world, including recognition from all 50 state bar associations in the United States. Clio has the most 5-star reviews of any legal practice management software. Learn more at clio.com. 

Interested in having Clio support your members? Reach out to their partnership team at affinity.partners@clio.com. 

Four Pillars Research is an investigative firm, with the goal of providing pertinent information to injury attorneys to help them settle their cases as quickly as possible, and for the maximum amount that is due to the injured party. We view ourselves as advocates for the injured and have focused on revealing truthful policy limits that insurance companies may not readily disclose. Our proprietary software, as well as years of experience in the industry that allow us to provide this information in a timely manner.

Contact: Chris Miranda (chris@researchfp.com) 469-460-0772

CLE Abroad offers private educational travel programs for Associations, Academies and other legal, academic and non-profit membership organizations. Our mission is to create enriching, once-in-a-lifetime experiences while promoting mutual understanding, life-long learning, respect for the rule of law, and professional development across the globe.

Each of our immersive multi-day itineraries feature local speakers and experts, community engagement, and diverse social justice themes providing eye-opening and transformational experiences for lawyers and non-lawyers alike, suitable for every intellectually curious traveler. CLE Abroad’s people-to-people approach merges continuing education with the excitement of international travel, expanding our participants’ horizons and is a catalyst for personal and professional growth.

Contact: Daniel Perez (daniel@cle-abroad.com)

Strategic Capital has funded over $2 billion in transactions. We have been buying lottery prize payments, investment annuity payments, IGT casino winnings and other future payments since 1994. We became a structured settlement buyer in the early 2000’s only after structured settlement transfers became regulated by law. Our organization is made up of people who are united in our caring, problem solving mentality and our drive to deliver results for our clients. Whatever we do, we’re always connected to the bigger picture helping you meet your changing financial needs, both now and in the future.

Contact: Ric Perez (ric.perez@strategiccapital.com)