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Members of the Catalyst team have spent the past two decades dealing with legal technology issues associated with complex litigation. John Tredennick, Catalyst's founder and CEO, was an AV rated trial lawyer with more than 20 years experience handling complex litigation. Over the past two decades, he has written or editedfive bestselling books on legal technology, countless articles and served as Editor in Chief of 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 in the industry.

The Background to Understand Your Needs

John Tredennick is joined by a team of professionals with decades of 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 before becoming the 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 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 Review Services 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, Google-like 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.