TrialNet is a private, collaborative network designed and created only for defense counsel and the corporate counsel they represent. TrialNet is creating private networks for companies and their outside counsel in a number of specific subject areas. These areas include products liability, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, architects and engineers' professional liability, and employment and labor related issues. Several other subject areas are under development. A Novel Way to Communicate For companies and outside counsel needing or specializing in this kind of legal work, TrialNet provides a large network of options and an interesting way to communicate.
Shared functions are precisely what they describe.
For the medical malpractice site, the shared functions include all of the information available to all of the companies and outside firms participating in the site. In practice, TrialNet's shared functions area acts as a huge, tailored conference - with access to a large and specialized library of materials. At a legal conference, participants come from all over the country. Once on TrialNet's site, subscribers can go to their specific site and access it using secure user names and passwords. Like at a conference, where attendees may attend seminars to discuss specific materials, or break off with a colleague during breaks to discuss matters of importance to both parties, the shared functions portion of TrialNet operates in much the same way.