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Case 04 — Legal Access Technologies (LATI / LGAL)

CIK: 878146 Ticker (OTC): LGAL Common control: CIK 1144030 — Kyleen E. Cane (individual), SC 13D on LATI, 2001–02 (co-filer Michael A. Cane) Lineage: Tele-Lawyer, Inc. → Dynamic Associates → Legal Access Technologies SIC (origin): legal / business services — drifts off origin across the name churn

Dates/accessions below are EDGAR-confirmed; see _edgar-facts-davi-lati.md for the source filings.

Summary

CIK 878146 is the seed lineage for Cane catalog heuristic #1 (name_recycling). A single registrant carries three corporate names — Tele-Lawyer → Dynamic Associates (EDGAR formerNames from 1996-11-18) → Legal Access Technologies (from 2001-05-15) — drifts its SIC off the legal-services origin, raises capital through a convertible promissory note and an S-8 (with an Ex-5 opinion), files nothing after 2006 while the stock keeps trading OTC into 2008. The cross-CIK thread is common control, not a name recycle: CIK 1144030 is the natural person Kyleen E. Cane, whose SC 13D names this issuer, filed through the same EDGAR agent (0001255294) that prepared Davi Skin / MW Medical's filings. Every structural signal here is visible on the SEC EDGAR submissions JSON; the offering/note/opinion signals are confirmed in the filing bodies.

EDGAR filing chronology (structural fingerprints)

Date Form Significance
1996 (registration) Tele-Lawyer, Inc. — original EDGAR identity on CIK 878146
1996-11-18 (formerNames) Rename Tele-Lawyer → Dynamic Associates (EDGAR formerNames); SIC drifts off legal services
2001-05-15 (formerNames) Rename Dynamic Associates → Legal Access Technologies
2001-06-28 SC 13D Kyleen / Michael Cane file SC 13D on LATI — common control-person (filer CIK 1144030, agent 0001255294)
2001-07-05 S-8 + EX-4 Stock-plan registration with opinion of counsel (acc 0001075793-01-500109)
2001–2006 NT 10-K / NT 10-Q Chronic late-filer cluster across the LATI period
2004-12-10 8-K Convertible promissory note $140,000, 7%, convertible @ $0.07/sh (Deardorff) (acc 0001255294-04-000348)
2006-08-30 (last filing) EDGAR record ends — going dark while LGAL still trades OTC
2008 LGAL trades on OTC through 2008 despite the dark record (shell_reactivation)
2008–2010 OTC trading continues; no contemporaneous EDGAR control event (the going_dark + shell_reactivation window)

Per-heuristic scoring

# Heuristic Trip? Earliest trip Weight Score
1 name_recycling YES — 2 formerNames (Dynamic, LATI) on one CIK, plus Cane common-control link (CIK 1144030) 1996-11-18 (first rename) 3 3
2 shell_reactivation YES — trades OTC into 2008 after dark EDGAR record 2008 3 3
3 reverse_merger_chain PARTIAL — control/name pivots without full 5.06→2.01→5.03 confirmed this pass 1996–2001 3 2
4 penny_stock_s1_s8 YES — S-8 stock-plan registration (2001-07-05, EX-4 opinion) 2001-07-05 2 2
5 late_filer_cluster YES — NT 10-K / NT 10-Q cluster across the LATI period 2001–2006 2 2
6 going_dark_blackout YES — last filing 2006-08-30, no 10-K thereafter 2006-08-30 2 2
7 filer_agent_overlap YES — filer agent 0001255294 also files Davi Skin + Cane 13Ds 2004 3 3
8 form_d_only_issuer NO — issuer files periodics 3 0
9 reg_s_issuance NO — LATI funds via Reg D, not Reg S (cf. Davi Skin's Reg S) 2 0
10 reg_a_offering NO 2 0
11 sic_code_drift YES — SIC drifts off legal-services origin across renames 1996–2001 2 2
12 promissory_note_clauses YES — convertible note $140k, 7%, conv. $0.07 (8-K 2004-12-10) 2004-12-10 2 2
13 opinion_letter_presence YES — counsel opinion in the 2001-07-05 S-8 (EX-4) 2001-07-05 3 3
14 form_144_outlier UNKNOWN 2 0
15 sec_staff_action NO — no confirmed staff action on 878146 this pass 3 0
16 self_filer_for_material_capital NO 2 0

Headline structural score: 26 / 38 (EDGAR full-text-confirmed pass; accessions in _edgar-facts-davi-lati.md). Distinct firing heuristics (n_sig): 10 → clears the n_sig ≥ 2 gate. Tier: score 26 ≥ 10 → Tier 1 (daily review).

Precrime lead time

  • Earliest trip date: 1996-11-18 (first rename Tele-Lawyer → Dynamic Associates trips name_recycling + sic_code_drift).
  • Last EDGAR signal: 2006-08-30 going dark; the Cane SC 13D common-control link runs 2001–02 (and Cane Form 4s on CIK 1144030 continue to 2013).
  • Lead time: the lineage is flagged from its first rename, a decade before the going-dark blackout that closes the structural record — and the filer_agent_overlap + common-control link to Davi Skin is what a single-CIK view would never connect.

Cane-scheme pattern match

LATI is the origin exemplar of the catalog, not merely a match to it:

  • It is the named seed for heuristic #1 (name_recycling) in README.md.
  • Its going-dark pattern (15-series silence on 878146 while the stock trades) plus the common control-person thread — Kyleen / Michael Cane filing SC 13D via CIK 1144030, and the shared filing agent 0001255294 that also prepared Davi Skin's documents — is the cross-CIK case that motivated tracking control and filer-agent across registrants, not just formerNames within one.
  • The same fingerprints — identity churn, SIC drift, late-filer cluster, going dark, convertible-note + opinion-letter capital raises — recur on the 2024–2026 cases (RTSL, GP Solutions), confirming the catalog generalizes forward from these 2001–2010 facts.

See case-05-davi.md for the adjacent MW Medical → Davi Skin reverse-merger lineage, and stock-davi.md for the LGAL price/volume confirmation dimension.