About Catalyst
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John Tredennick "He is paid to think outside the box and inside the Web. About the only thing constant about Tredennick is his line to clients when they complain about the amount of paper that lawyers create and the redundant steps that they take. "You know," Tredennick says, "There might be a better way to do this." "My Day With John" |
Over the past thirty years, John Tredennick has spoken before more national and international audiences on legal and technology issues than he or anyone else can remember. He's written and edited five best-selling books and countless articles on litigation and technology issues. Recently, he was named one of the "Top 100 Global Technology Leaders" by London's CityTech magazine. He also serves as a member of the Short Course Faculty at the University of Virginia Law School where he teaches a course called "Electronic Discovery in a Global Environment."
History
John began his career as a trial lawyer and litigation partner with one of the largest law firms in the Rocky Mountains. He got interested in technology in the late 1980s when his wife brought a computer home for graduate business school. After erasing the data on her hard drive twice, and making lots of other mistakes, he began to see promise in the machines. Working with a team of technologists, he began building software to help his 10-office firm manage complex litigation.
In 1995 John became the firm's Chief Information Officer (CIO), the first in the country for a major law firm. He also continued his full-time practice as a trial lawyer and litigation partner. His passion for finding ways to use technology to improve law practice led the firm to international prominence as a technology pioneer. It also led to a 1999 induction into the Smithsonian Institute Archives as an Information Innovation Pioneer.
Catalyst
John and his team began building web-based litigation repositories in 1998, while still a partner at his firm. He founded Catalyst (originally called "CaseShare") in 2000. The company has since grown to more than 100 employees in the U.S. and India. The company is headquartered and maintains two data centers in the Colorado, with representatives in major cities across the U. S.
Over the years, John and the company has won numerous awards including being named Rocky Mountain Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young and Technology Entrepreneur of the Year by the Colorado Software and Internet Association (CSIA). His company was named Top Company for Technology/Media/Telecommunications by ColoradoBiz Magazine and Colorado Company to Watch by the Colorado Office of Economic Development. It has also been named repeatedly to the Deloitte FAST 50 and FAST 500 (for rapid growth) and received recognition by Socha-Gelbman and Law Technology News as a Top eDiscovery Provider.
Personal
In 1990, John was Editor-in-Chief of two best-selling, multi-author books called "Winning With Computers: Trial Practice in the Twenty-First Century" (Volumes 1 & 2), both published by the American Bar Association. That same year he and his partner Bob Benson wrote "How to Prepare for, Take and Use a Deposition," for James publishing. In 2000 John wrote "The Lawyer's Guide to Excel," which was published by Glasser LegalWorks (now Thomson). An updated version appeared as "The Lawyer's Guide to Excel 2007," which was published by the American Bar Association in 2008.
John also served as Chair of the ABA's Law Practice Management Section. For many years he edited Law Practice Management magazine, a monthly publication of the American Bar Association focusing on legal technology and management issues. More recently, he founded and edited Law Practice Today, a widely-read ABA Webzine that focuses on electronic discovery and other legal technology and management issues.
John is married with two children. An important member of John's virtual team is his show-jumping horse, Trueman's Affair. Together they've papered John's office with blue ribbons and action shots from competitions across the country. (It's not just in the courtroom where John enjoys a good win!)
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