FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact Information:
Sally Goldberg
Director of Business Development
Courtroom Connect
sally@courtroomconnect.com
917.749.1662
Courtroom Connect and VideoTelecon Merge
Companies
The two companies combine their videoconferencing and
video streaming services
to provide comprehensive video
solutions to law firms.
(New York, NY, December 27, 2005) – Courtroom Connect
(CC), the leading provider of
Internet and video streaming services to law firms for
litigation proceedings such as trials and depositions,
announced today a merger with VideoTelecon (VTC),
the leading provider of videoconferencing in the legal
industry. The merger produced a suite of video services
that the companies can now offer their law firm clients.
Courtroom Connect has permanent Internet networks in
state and federal courthouses across the U.S.
providing attorneys wireless and wired access to
the Internet while at court. Attorneys can also view
trials remotely through CC’s video streaming service
which delivers secured video/audio and text broadcasting
over the Internet to attorneys and their support staff
offices. This innovative technology has been used on
trials such as In Re Walt Disney Derivative Litigation
and Vioxx. With the VideoTelecon merger, Courtroom
Connect can now add videoconferencing services in a
courthouse for witnesses that cannot appear at trial.
The addition of videoconferencing adds to the breadth of
Courtroom Connect’s video services at trial, but it also
extends into the law firm location as well. Law firms
can now purchase videoconferencing for their office
through CC along with its enhanced IP network service.
Louis Goldberg, President of CC, offered, “Courtroom
Connect and VTC have a common vision to make video
communication widely available to the legal community.
By combining our unique capabilities, we are able to
offer comprehensive video services and a managed
telecommunications platform from the law firm office to
the courtroom.”
Courtroom Connect also obtained VideoTelecon’s i2i Legal
Network of over 275 court reporting firms across the
United States that have public videoconference rooms
available to rent to law firms. Attorneys can go to
www.i2ilegalnetwork.com to find a room in any location
they need and call to book a room.
“With our expertise in videoconferencing and success in
creating a videoconferencing network
(i2ilegalnetwork.com) and Courtroom Connect’s domination
of video streaming and Internet in the courtroom, the
synergies between our two companies quickly became
apparent. The rapidly expanding needs for video
communication in the legal market would be better served
through a merger of the two entities,” says Ron Goldman,
President of VTC.
Courtroom Connect and VideoTelecon have also recently
announced strategic relationships with Polycom, AT&T,
and Covad as a backbone to their video and Internet
services.
About VideoTelecon
With an installed base of over 400 systems, VTC is a
leading provider of videoconferencing systems and
services in the legal market. Fully certified as a
Polycom Channel Partner and Polycom Service Provider,
VTC provides a complete line of videoconferencing
systems, peripherals and support as well as a business
program for court reporting firms to provide
videoconferencing services to the legal market through
its i2i Legal Network.
About Courtroom Connect
Courtroom Connect is a leading provider of
telecommunication technology and services for litigation
proceedings including depositions, mock trials, war
rooms and trials throughout the U.S. CC is rapidly
expanding its wireless and wired data networks,
providing secure high-speed bandwidth, Internet access,
and transmission of video, audio, data and real time
transcripts in courthouses nationwide. Courtroom
Connect also provides a complete range of technology
services on a temporary basis at courthouses, war rooms
and law firms.
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