About Catalyst
A Deep Bench of Experience from over Two Decades in E-Discovery
Catalyst's success is built on the experience of our people. Members of our team have spent the past two decades addressing how legal technology can help better manage complex litigation. The sum of our knowledge is reflected in the products and services we offer.
John Tredennick, Catalyst's founder and CEO, was an AV rated trial lawyer with more than 20 years experience handling complex litigation. He has written or edited five bestselling books on legal technology, written countless articles and served as Editor in Chief of the American Bar Association publications Law Practice Magazine, Law Technology Today and Law Practice Today. In 2006, John was named in the CityTech "Top 100" voices in the legal technology world based on input from 2,000 clients, partners and peers.
The Background to Understand Your Needs
John is joined at Catalyst by a team of professionals with unparalleled legal technology experience:
- Our CTO ran the I.S. department for an AmLaw 200 law firm and coordinated all legal technology efforts across 11 offices and thousands of clients.
- Our V.P. Operations ran networking for an AmLaw 200 law firm. He then became V.P. of Operations for a major regional ISP company, where he built a number of data centers.
- Our Director of Network Security ran networking and security for an AmLaw 200 law firm across all of its 11 offices.
- Our Director of Catalyst Consulting is both a lawyer and a software engineer who formerly worked for a major law firm managing its use of technology in complex litigation matters.
- Our Principal Consultant for Catalyst Consulting is a lawyer with 30 years experience, an early legal-technology pioneer and the developer of WinDraft, a successful document assembly software company used by major law firms.
- Our Director of Channel Development is a lawyer who practiced for many years before managing review teams for Qwest litigation.
- Our Director of Project Management has a decade of litigation support experience working with large law firms.
- Many of our consultants and project managers are attorneys or experienced legal assistants.
Experience Honed Over a Decade
Perhaps our strongest qualification is the fact that we have made every mistake you can make with a computer, and learned from each one. Hard work, experience and the ability to keep learning are what makes the difference in our business. That, and a clear vision about the utility of secure Internet repositories for distributed legal teams.
You gain immediate access to a mature, stable platform with hundreds of servers, industry-leading speed, and the tools you need to manage the litigation support life cycle, backed by a team of legal technology professionals that has been building and hosting legal collaboration software for more than a decade.
We encourage you to meet and learn more about the people who make up Catalyst.
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