ALM & CVN to offer online Courtroom Video.

ALM (New York), now a unit of Incisive Media (New York/London), has entered into a partnership with Courtroom Video Network (CVN; Los Angeles, CA), a legal news organization that provides video coverage of legal proceedings, to offer courtroom proceedings, including live and archived online video of courtroom proceedings, to litigators, law firms, in-house counsel, financial analysts and law schools. Under terms of the deal, ALM and CVN will identify major civil trials, hearings and oral arguments for video coverage, and package and market video for use in trial preparation, expert witness evaluation, and education and training. The video will also be used to enhance news coverage on ALM's Law.com legal information network.

Video and products will be available via courtroom-view.com and the Law.com network, allowing subscribers to view full trials or elements of trials, such as opening and closing arguments, and expert witness testimony, along with exhibits presented to the jury. ALM said that attorneys can use video to evaluate opposing counsel, assess witness credibility and effectiveness, and analyze related litigation to assist in trial preparation. Video can also be used by in-house counsel to track trial progress, by law schools for teaching in conjunction with classroom work, and by law firms for in-house training of associates.

ALM senior vice president Jack Berkowitz said CVN "has extensive experience in working with courts across the country to obtain video taping access and in the technical areas of video recording, as well as storage and distribution technologies. Our new partnership will allow us to combine this expertise with ALM's strong relationships with the legal profession and marketing capabilities." CVN was established in 2006.

Advantage Business Media (Rockaway, NJ), formerly the Reed Business Information New Product Division, has begun the publication of "Emerging Technologies in Forensic Science," a new journal that focuses on emerging and developing technologies used within forensic science labs for law enforcement, homeland security and environmental examinations.

The new title has a controlled circulation of 20,000 scientists, chemists, technicians and lab managers employed within forensic science labs. Content focuses on such topics as: chemical and biochemical testing; IR and Raman spectrophotometry, DNA techniques and immunoassays, optical microscopes examinations used to classify materials, and analytical work supported by instrumentation.

It also includes information on emerging technologies, including chemical analysis of materials, biological origins from samples, new instrumental analysis using spectroscopy and chromatography, miniaturization of forensic tools and instruments, accuracy determinations, and botanical evidence.

Content and editorial is being produced by the current staff at Advantage's "Bioscience Technology." "Laboratory Equipment" and "R & D" magazines. Advantage now publishes 20 titles for the science, engineering/design, electronics and communications markets, including "Wireless Week," "Wireless Design & Development," "Drug Discovery & Development" and "Pharmaceutical Processing."