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How Stratejic Relationships Helps Trial Lawyers Win Complex Cases

How Stratejic Relationships Helps Trial Lawyers Win Complex Cases
Legal Insights

July 29, 2025

Trial lawyers face mounting challenges in an environment where corporate defendants have endless resources and information is often hidden. Many legal teams know that the difference between a good case and a great one is often a witness who saw the truth up close. For nearly two decades, Stratejic Relationships has empowered trial lawyers to win tough cases by locating and connecting them with essential fact witnesses. These witnesses often include former employees, industry insiders, or individuals with direct knowledge of the misconduct at the heart of the dispute. This article explores how Stratejic Relationships delivers results for law firms in practice areas like personal injury, product liability, employment law, consumer class actions, antitrust litigation, and more.

The Mission of Stratejic Relationships

At its core, Stratejic Relationships is dedicated to helping trial lawyers expose corporate wrongdoing and build cases that change lives. The firm works closely with attorneys across the United States, focusing on the key principle that knowledge is power in litigation. By connecting lawyers with people who know the facts firsthand, Stratejic Relationships ensures that important details never remain hidden. This approach leads to stronger settlements, higher verdicts, and real accountability for defendants.

Practice Areas Supported

Stratejic Relationships provides unique support across a wide range of legal fields. Some of the primary practice areas include:

Personal Injury and Wrongful Death
In cases involving serious injuries or fatalities, evidence from former employees can reveal unsafe company practices, ignored complaints, or a pattern of neglect. For instance, ex-workers may have witnessed repeated safety violations or been pressured to cut corners. Their testimony often makes the difference in winning significant compensation for victims and families.

Product Liability
Defective products hurt countless people each year. Sometimes the key to proving a case is showing that the company knew about a defect but chose not to fix it. Stratejic Relationships helps attorneys find engineers, designers, and manufacturing workers who can explain how mistakes happened and why they were ignored.

Employment Law
Employment cases often require proof that policies were not just unfair, but illegal or systematically abused. By tracking down former staff and managers, the firm helps lawyers gather the facts about wage and hour violations, discrimination, harassment, or unsafe working conditions.

Consumer Class Actions
When many people are harmed by the same product, service, or policy, finding the right class representatives is crucial. Stratejic Relationships identifies harmed ex-employees and other class members, streamlining the process for lawyers filing consumer class action lawsuits.

Antitrust and Price Fixing Litigation
Uncovering price fixing or other anti-competitive practices requires deep investigation. Ex-insiders can provide details about secret meetings, illegal agreements, or patterns of behavior that violate the law. Stratejic Relationships delivers the witnesses who can confirm or refute these claims.

The Unique Stratejic Approach

Unlike firms that only provide generic lists, Stratejic Relationships specializes in targeted, strategic witness searches. The process begins by understanding each client’s case and objectives. Then, the team leverages a nationwide network and sophisticated research techniques to locate witnesses who are not only relevant but credible and willing to share their knowledge.

After identifying potential witnesses, Stratejic Relationships thoroughly vets them and provides lawyers with verified contact details and background information. This ensures trial lawyers can reach out with confidence and clarity, minimizing wasted effort and maximizing results.

Why Witnesses Matter

In many high-stakes cases, companies rely on confidentiality agreements, lost records, or stonewalling to shield the truth. Ex-employees and insiders are uniquely positioned to fill in the gaps. They can clarify how policies were actually enforced, identify overlooked hazards, or expose misconduct that never made it into official documents. Their perspectives can:

  • Validate or challenge the claims of the opposing party
  • Provide a human face to complex legal arguments
  • Strengthen expert testimony by adding context and detail
  • Unlock new avenues for investigation or discovery

Success Stories and Recognition

Leading law firms across the country turn to Stratejic Relationships when they need a breakthrough. The firm’s efforts have been praised by attorneys at Bailey Glasser, Beasley Allen, and Richardson Patrick Westbrook & Brickman, among others. Testimonials highlight time and cost savings, reliable witness identification, and ethical service.

One attorney described Stratejic Relationships as “a time-efficient, economical, and ethical path” to finding class representatives and key witnesses. Another praised the firm’s ability to deliver names and contact information for impacted witnesses quickly and within budget, making case development much smoother.

Founder’s Vision and Leadership

Paul Littrell Jr., the founder of Stratejic Relationships, brings 18 years of investigative experience to the table. His focus on connecting trial lawyers with ex-employees and knowledgeable insiders has helped expose corporate wrongdoing and boost verdicts in cases that might otherwise have been lost. Under his leadership, Stratejic Relationships is known for its attention to detail, ethical approach, and genuine commitment to justice.

The Value of Relationship Building

Stratejic Relationships is not just about finding witnesses. The firm is built on strong professional relationships—between lawyers, investigators, witnesses, and clients. This relationship-driven model fosters trust, which is essential for encouraging witnesses to speak openly and for attorneys to act confidently on new information.

By investing in relationships, Stratejic Relationships helps ensure that witnesses feel respected and supported, reducing their fears about retaliation and enhancing the quality of their testimony.

Conclusion

When it comes to complex legal battles, having the facts on your side makes all the difference. Stratejic Relationships is the trusted ally for trial lawyers who need more than documents—they need people who know what really happened. By combining a strategic approach with deep industry knowledge and a commitment to ethical service, Stratejic Relationships continues to set the standard for witness location and corporate investigation. If your firm needs the edge that only firsthand testimony can provide, consider partnering with Stratejic Relationships for your next big case.

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What our clients are saying
Penn Law LLC

Paul is a fact witness magnet on his way to becoming a magnate in the niche he's expertly crafted. Not only do he and his team execute a proven method of bringing influential witnesses to bear in complex litigation, helpful fact witnesses just naturally gravitate toward them. People skills incorporated within the Witness|Mining™ process provide a seamless and time-saving transition which helps me develop relationships with fact witnesses with the potential to positively impact cases.

Darren W. Penn, ESQ.
Darren W. Penn, ESQ.

Penn Law LLC

Working with Stratejic Relationships recently has been a very positive experience. Consummate professionals, Paul and his team breathed new life into the investigation of a 10 year old personal injury case by identifying a substantial number of potential fact witnesses who may impact my ability to prevail against a corporate Defendant. They were insightful, prompt, and worked within my budget. Stratejic exceeded my expectations and is an organization with whom I continue to work.

Robert N. Edwards, ESQ.
Robert N. Edwards, ESQ.

The Law Office of Robert N. Edwards

New, Taylor & Associates

Conferring with the Whistleblower provided to me by Stratejic just prior to an important series of depositions provided me with invaluable insights into how my Defendant secretly conducted their business. Twenty minutes into my questions, and the first deponent had shredded the Defense, facilitating settlement. This is a service I will continue to use.

Stephen P. New, ESQ.
Stephen P. New, ESQ.

New, Taylor & Associates

Lipsky Lowe LLP

Stratejic has represented a significant return on my investment. Paul and his team saved me a considerable amount of time filing a class action by providing me with the names and addresses of a number of former, harmed employees of my Defendant. When you need a Class Representative, this is a time-efficient, economical, and ethical path to signing one, and a service I will continue to use.

Douglas B. Lipsky, ESQ.
Douglas B. Lipsky, ESQ.

Lipsky Lowe LLP

Beasley Allen Law Firm

Paul and his team have demonstrated a real proficiency for identifying and acquiring Insider Fact Witnesses who have the potential for bolstering claims, and in my own practice their unique solutions have represented a positive return on my investment.

Michael J. Crow, ESQ.
Michael J. Crow, ESQ.

Beasley Allen Law Firm

Richardson Thomas

Paul is an absolute lightning rod when it comes to investigations which produce fact witnesses who possess relevant information about, and interest in, my firm’s cases. His breadth of associations throughout the country is quite impressive, and he has the uncanny ability to help us forge impactful and beneficial relationships.

Terry E. Richardson, Jr., ESQ.
Terry E. Richardson, Jr., ESQ.

Richardson Thomas

Bailey Glasser, LLP

Paul and his team delivered exactly what they said they would: a list of impacted fact witnesses and their addresses relevant to our case within a given state, and they did so within our budget.

John W. Barrett, ESQ.
John W. Barrett, ESQ.

Bailey Glasser, LLP