Recruiting & staffing specialist David Cowen of The Cowen Group has debuted his litigation support blog, Opportunity Knocks.

David uses Opportunity Knocks to provide insights from his position atop the human capital industry.

Blog topics include:

• Career Planning & Development
• E-Discovery
• Litigation Support
• Staffing

David is an internationally known headhunter who specializes in staffing and recruiting, with more than 20 years (and a B.S. in finance from Miami University of Ohio) under his belt. Since 1996, his company The Cowen Group has been a leading force in their industry and currently caters to more than 1/4 of the firms on the AmLaw 200 list.

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 San Francisco – February 10, 2010 – TERIS San Francisco announced today that veteran litigation support professional Claudine Schardijn joined its office as Senior Technology Consultant. Schardijn has more than 13 years of litigation technology experience and will put that to use immediately by consulting with high-level clients to help them better understand new technologies and how to apply those solutions to lower costs and improve results.

Schardijn has extensive business development experience in the litigation support industry, most recently serving as Director of Client Services for BlackStone Discovery in Palo Alto. There she managed and supported both AmLaw 200 and Fortune 500 clients in the discussion, development, and deployment of integrated technology solutions. Previously she served as Senior Project Manager for eLitigation Solutions, Partner at Izvize and Senior Project Manager for Aptara. Her experience includes acting as lead Project Manager for a high-level Bay Area Fortune 100 company, where she worked on the largest merger in the corporation’s history.

“Claudine has very deep industry experience, and she is a critical addition to the TERIS San Francisco team,” said Kevin Brooks, TERIS Bay Area Executive Managing Partner. “She has developed a strong reputation as a results-oriented professional who always keeps the clients’ goals in mind – regardless of the challenge at hand. She is a proven team leader, and that experience will be helpful as we continue to build our San Francisco office and serve a growing number of clients who require unique eDiscovery solutions.”

Schardijn has extensive experience with: Concordance, Summation, Trial Director, Inmagic DBTextworks, Sanction, Casemap, IPRO e-capture, Mobius/Extractiva, QuickBooks, Clearwell, Kcura/Relativity, iConect, Cataphora, and ONEO. She is a member of the Silicon Valley chapter of Women in eDiscovery and graduated from California State University – Sacramento with a B.S. in Criminal Justice and Administration.

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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From today's Puget Sound Business Journal

Who's Hiring

Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) -

by Greg Lamm Staff Writer

No downturn for lawsuits, litigation-support firm finds

Teris, a litigation support provider for law firms, has been expanding into new markets and adding to its work force during the recession.

The Seattle-based company has added offices in Chicago and Dallas and hired about 20 workers this year. That brings the work force to about 300, said David Kaufer, vice president of marketing and communications.

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Palo Alto, CA – November 12, 2009 – TERISannounced today that leading Computer Forensic expert Jack Grimes joined the firm as its new Director of Computer Forensics. Grimes has been involved in the technology and eDiscovery industry for 10 years, during which time he managed the information technology team for one of the legal technology industry’s leading consulting teams and gained a reputation for his forensic software and technology expertise.

“Jack’s experience and expertise are important additions to our Computer Forensics team in Silicon Valley and TERIS California,” said Kevin Brooks, TERIS Silicon Valley General Manager and Partner. “He brings unique experience to our company and clients, including recently leading the collections process for one of Silicon Valley’s most visible technology companies. Jack has an outstanding reputation in the industry and his leadership will be critical as we continue to build this side of our business.”

Grimes joins TERIS from Celerity Consulting, where he served as Information Technology Manager, overseeing the team of network, system, database, programming, and forensic engineers.  At TERIS, Grimes will be responsible for training and developing the ESI collection team, managing large scale computer forensic and electronic discovery engagements, conducting forensic analysis of computer media and creating affidavits and expert analysis reports, among other responsibilities.   

Grimes received his BSC from Santa Clara University and his MBA from the University of San Francisco.  

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Check out this article from the Puget Sound Business Journal in October, 2001. The company was still called American Legal Copy (which then became ALC Legal Technologies before we switched to TERIS in January).

It's amazing to see how much has changed within the legal industry in such a short period of time.

Friday, October 19, 2001

Litigation leads to growth at legal-copy company

Law firms and corporate legal departments turn to American Legal Copy for help

Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) -

by George Erb Staff Writer

Folding handcarts are kept behind a door, always at the ready, at the downtown Seattle office of American Legal Copy LLC.

Workers regularly stack cardboard bankers boxes on the carts, push their loads into the elevator and go down to the street, where they deliver the life blood of the litigation industry - copies of thousands of pages of legal documents.

Litigation is a growth industry. And so, as it turns out, is legal copying. Between 1998 and 2000, American Legal's annual revenues increased 106 percent to $5 million, making it one of the state's fastest-growing private companies.

"I don't see us slowing down," said Stefan Wikstrom, a founder and a managing partner of the company. "There's always going to be lawsuits."

American Legal's customers are downtown law firms and corporate legal departments, which frequently handle lawsuits that can fill entire shelves with legal documents.

Many firms used to run their own copy rooms. Increasingly, however, copy companies like American Legal are offering firms an alternative to buying their own copy machines and hiring the staff to operate the equipment. Indeed, Seattle's legal-copy market is growing by 15 percent a year, American Legal executives estimate.

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TERIS and iBridge offer highly cost effective, extremely reliable document review and assessment support for all types of litigation including tort cases, class actions, complex litigation, white collar, SEC and other government investigations, and insurance defense.

Learn more about these services and trends related to managed review here: 

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The DiscoverTERIS Channel is back with two new updates. The first:

Kelli Clark, Esq., Director of Professional and Litigation Services for TERIS and Desh Urs, Managing Partner of iBridge Solutions, discuss the multiple benefits for law firms and corporate legal groups to outsource their managed review projects.

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Posted by: Kelli M. Clark, Esq.
Director of Professional and Litigation Services

The answer to the problem of shoddy review is to work smarter not harder. Like many attorneys I did my time in a doc review “sweatshop”. Even when time pressures are not imposed, I have to question the quality of the work product that comes out of these doc review factories. That being said, there is really no need to sacrifice quality for quantity these days. Early case assessment and data culling tools have reached such a level of sophistication that we can now use technology, not attorneys, to “review” non-relevant material. There is simply no reason to have attorneys billing hours to click through junk mail and meeting requests.

When the right technology is deployed up-front, most data sets can be reduced to a small fraction of their initial size prior to being handed over to attorney reviewers. Law firms that are undertaking massive doc by doc review on a regular basis are either missing the boat when it comes to technology, or are simply bilking their clients. There are methods that provide better quality and cost-effectiveness utilizing technology, and in some cases offshore managed review, to narrow the data set that needs to be reviewed by law firms. Over the last few years, I have begun to see the more savvy corporations switch to this approach with great success, and this approach is only going to continue to gain traction over the coming years.

This is obviously an ongoing issue in the industry, as shown in the recent ABA Journal Post,  "Lawyer’s Lament: Pressure to Review 80 Docs an Hour, for $23 an Hour"

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CHICAGO – September 2, 2009 – TERIS announced today its expansion into the Chicago litigation support market. Respected Chicago eDiscovery industry veteran John Stanton joins TERIS as Regional Director of Electronic Sales (RDES) and is leading the company’s entry into the Chicago market.

   Despite the national recession, TERIS’s success in its other locations, particularly in the area of electronic discovery (eDiscovery) has led to its expansion into the Chicago market. Opening and managing the office is Stanton, who brings more than 10 years of sales and management experience (with special expertise in eDiscovery and legal technology solutions).

“Entering the Chicago market is a significant step for us as a firm,” said TERIS founder and CEO Stefan Wikstrom. “We are excited to bring our expertise in eDiscovery and related litigation support services to this demanding market. We are committed to earning the trust of clients in Chicago as we have done in each of the other seven markets we serve and we know the only way to do this is to provide exceptional value, knowledge and service.”

Prior to joining TERIS, Stanton worked as Regional Sales Manager for Oce´ Business Services/CaseData where he focused on developing and managing eDiscovery and litigation technology solutions. Stanton has also served in sales management positions with other leading industry organizations including EVault/Seagate Technologies, Thomson West and LexusNexus.

ABOUT TERIS

Founded in 1996, TERIS (previously known as ALC Legal Technologies, Duplex Legal Discovery Solutions, and Digital Discovery Solutions), is a full-service litigation support solution provider that works with many of the largest and most prestigious law firms and Fortune 500 companies in the country to provide sophisticated consultation-based solutions, state-of-the-art technologies and highly experienced project management.

TERIS services includes eDiscovery, Contract Review, Consulting and Project Management, Repository/Hosting, Document Imaging, Digital Forensic and Traditional Reprographics. The company also provides valuable research, analysis, and information management assistance for complex challenges to help clients prevail over tight deadlines and unanticipated obstacles.

The company operates a free job board for the legal profession at www.discoverlegaljobs.com and has offices in Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Seattle. To learn more about TERIS, visit www.TERIS.com or follow the company on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/DiscoverTeris.

Media Contact: David Kaufer, Director of Marketing, 425-275-8814; 206-521-8717 or DKaufer (at) TERIS.com

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On this edition of The Paralegal Voice, co-hosts Lynne DeVenny and Vicki Voisin get an inside look at the virtual legal practice.  Lynne and Vicki welcome Stephanie Kimbro, an attorney who operates a virtual law firm called Kimbro Legal Services and Denise Annunciata, who provides outsourced paralegal services at Virtual Paralegal Services,  Inc. They both share their experiences in the field of a virtual legal practice and what it takes to work as a virtual paralegal or legal assistant.

TERIS is a proud sponsor of The Paralegal Voice.

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IPRO Tech., a leader in the design of scalable, easy to manage litigation support software as well as e-Discovery software, honored TERIS at its two-day 8th Annual Partner Conference, IPRO Innovations 2009.   The conference, held at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak in Phoenix, Arizona featured more than 20 specialized workshops and seminars to provide more than 200 attendees with important hands-on knowledge and comfort in the quickly evolving world of litigation support software.                                      

IPRO added TERIS to its growing "Hall of Fame" award category, which recognizes long-term IPRO clients that have continually maintained innovative and leadership positions within the litigation support community.

TERIS is a full-service litigation support solution provider. The company works with leading law firms and corporate legal departments to provide sophisticated consultation-based solutions, state-of-the-art technologies and highly experienced project management. TERIS simplifies enterprise-wide information flow, allowing for professionally enhanced case management, which provides clients with improved workflow and a much higher return on their investment.

As in years past, the criteria for selection includes consistent dedication to technological innovations and leading edge business paradigms to streamline business practices, achieving top quality service levels, and positively impacting the litigation community in their market over the last year.

“TERIS has always taken a pioneering approach to its business model, and we’re delighted that IPRO products and services have been instrumental in the company’s success,” said Jim King, CEO of IPRO. “Our long-term partnership has been beneficial to both companies, and we hope to work with the terrific management at TERIS for years to come.”

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