Sophisticated Litigation Support Blog : E-Discovery & Document Management : TERIS Litigation Support Solutions : Seattle, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, San Diego, Phoenix, Austin, Dallas

Palo Alto, CA – February 26, 2010 – TERIS announced today that Kevin Brooks has been promoted to Executive Vice President for its Northern California operations. Brooks was previously managing partner for TERIS Silicon Valley.

“Kevin’s track record at TERIS has quite simply been stellar,” said Stefan Wikstrom, TERIS Founder and CEO. “He has proven to be a highly effective team builder and is absolutely committed to providing outstanding client management and service on a consistent basis. It has been impressive to witness how much the Silicon Valley facility has grown under his leadership and we look forward to seeing similar results as his responsibilities expand to our San Francisco office as well.”

With this move, Brooks is now responsible for TERIS’ Bay Area operations, overseeing the company’s San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices. Brooks manages the facilities’ day-to-day functions, including recruiting, hiring and training top talent in sales and production and ensuring client satisfaction. Under his leadership, TERIS Silicon Valley grew to become the highest revenue producer in the company’s history and has consistently been one of its top producing and profitable facilities.

Prior to joining TERIS, Brooks was an account Manager at Corporate Express, where he was recognized as the top representative bringing in the most new business in the Northern California region. He received a bachelor's degree in Organizational Communication with a minor in Business Administration from California State University, Chico.

Kevin is a member of the board of directors for Peninsula Boxing, a local nonprofit organization dedicated to serving underprivileged or at-risk youth as well as adult community members. It provides an after-school amateur boxing program for youth as well as a noncontact recreational boxing fitness program for adults.

ABOUT TERIS
Founded in 1996, TERIS is the leading full-service litigation support service provider in the United States. TERIS provides Electronic Discovery, Computer Data Forensics, Consulting and Project Management, Managed Review and related services to corporate legal teams and law firms across the U.S. and internationally. TERIS’ staff of more than 300 was named one of the top 20 eDiscovery service providers by industry researcher Socha-Gelbmann in 2008. The company operates a free job board for the legal profession at www.discoverlegaljobs.com and has offices in Seattle, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, San Diego, Phoenix, Austin, Dallas and Chicago. To learn more about TERIS, visit www.TERIS.com or follow the company on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/DiscoverTERIS.

Media Contact: David Kaufer, Vice President of Marketing and Communications, 206-521-8717 or DKaufer (at) TERIS.com
 

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By Kevin Brooks, Managing Partner, TERIS, Northern California

You may believe that litigation support management is better left to your outside counsel. And in some situations, this may be true. However, in many cases your law firm could be costing you time and money, as well as affecting case outcome. Law firms are experts in the law, but very few have the resources and data expertise to manage your litigation lifecycle properly.

This is why a growing number of corporations are bypassing their outside counsel and contacting TERIS directly to handle sensitive services such as eDiscovery, document review and digital forensics. As new case law brings the importance of eDiscovery into the spotlight, more and more companies are discovering that it is crucial to ensure compliance and avoid sanctions by working directly with a knowledgeable data expert.

When a litigation support provider works directly with the corporation, the provider can serve as an effective conduit for both the corporation and the law firm. The provider may even work with a number of different outside counsels, serving as the primary contact for the corporation.

Additionally, many law firms, as well as some vendors, still use one single platform to handle data. A knowledgeable and technologically adept litigation support provider realizes that the one-size-fits-all approach is inadequate and, instead, offers multiple solutions to fit different case and data needs.

Ten important reasons why you should hire a litigation support vendor directly:

1.       Cost and Expense Forecast – Consult directly with data experts to more accurately identify costs for each project and keep expenses down. Vendors can also help cut future costs by proactively consulting on your data.

2.       Timeliness – Manage requests and deadlines quickly and more accurately through direct contact with your service provider, eliminating delays that can sometimes occur when going through outside counsel.

3.       Budget Management – Identify points of savings by being able to initiate volume discounts. The service provider can extend volume discounts as they build long-term relationships directly with corporations. You can also avoid the markup from some law firms which could increase your costs for services from 25 percent to as much as 100 percent.

4.       Streamlined Litigation Management - Reduce the number of vendors your corporation works with. This is especially relevant if your company works with several outside counsels and all have their own separate lit support vendors.

5.       Consultation – Give your litigation support provider a consulting role and front row view into the game plan instead of a 100 percent reactive position. By working with a provider who understands data, you can avoid sanctions for under or overproducing, which could reach tens of millions of dollars.

6.       Preparation – Address issues at the earliest point in litigation and improve efficiency by involving the litigation support provider in planning from the start.

7.      Expertise – Allow your outside counsel to concentrate on their core competency of legal strategy, while you work directly with data experts.

8.      Resources – Access the most cutting-edge technology for handling data. Small and medium-sized law firms may not have an in-house IT department to manage large numbers of electronic documents.

9.       Efficiency – Work hand in hand with the service provider, eliminating the middleman.

10.   Security – Gain better control over sensitive data and information.

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