LawNewz Network Expands, Acquiring Trial Livestreaming Website and Forum CourtChatter.com

Following late February’s launch of our sister entity, the LawNewz Network, a video network combining studio commentary with live trial coverage, LawNewz.com announced today that it’s acquired the trial-watching website CourtChatter.com. We are told it was an all cash deal.

Court Chatter, founded in 2013 by Cathy Russon, currently provides coverage of trials across the country via live video footage and documents. The site has more than 5,000 hours of archived footage, which LawNewz will incorporate into its own archive.

As part of the acquisition, Russon will join LawNewz as the site’s Senior Trial Producer. Russon will join a number of well-known legal hosts and analysts, including Beth Karras, Aaron Keller and Heather Hansen.

“LawNewz Network has quickly become the go to place to watch live trials,” said Court Chatter Founder Cathy Russon. “I am thrilled to join the team and share my passion for trials with a larger audience.”

ABC Chief Legal Analyst Dan Abrams, the founder and CEO of LawNewz, noted that no one “knows high profile trials better than” Russon,” adding that “Court Chatter will give us the ability to provide a more complete social offering to LawNewz followers and the capability to better track, monitor and research ongoing trials.”

In its first full month, the LawNewz Network welcomed over 2 million views and has covered high-profile cases such as MMA fighter War Machine’s attempted murder trial and former NFL star Aaron Hernandez’s double-murder trial. It also provided live coverage of Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing and has a full slate of trials ready to go for the summer.