Name: Patrick L. Mathews Location: Dallas, TX What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? I started my career as a paralegal back in the early 90’s. I originally started working for a government agency indexing documents into database systems. At this time scanning was somewhat cost prohibitive so we…
Name: Tim Thames Location: Columbia, SC What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? I was a case manager for a corporation managing products liability and asbestos litigation. As a former paralegal with a large law firm, I worked with litigation support review tools like Concordance and Summation to organize…
Name: Brad Lynch Location: Columbia, SC What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? I initially set off to be a computer programmer, so I began my career working for a well-known area software company. I started working in the mail department and delivered inter-office mail around the building. I…
Name: David Hancock Location: Tampa, FL What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? I was a Litigation Paralegal for 15 years prior to transitioning to the Litigation Support world, when Litigation Support became “a thing”. How did you get the opportunity to join the litigation support community? The firm at…
Name: Jane Gennarelli Location: San Antonio, Texas What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? I had a temporary position as a paralegal with the law department of a major US corporation. I traveled to the company’s various facilities reviewing documents to identify those to be produced. This was in the late…
Name: Carolyn Robinson Location: Detroit, MI What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? Prior to working as a Litigation Support Manager and as a Adjunct Professor of eDiscovery and Litigation Support, I worked in the legal arena as a Legal Records Clerk, a Law Librarian, a File Clerk, a Litigation Paralegal…
Name: Nate Emmerson Location: Cincinnati, Ohio What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? My undergraduate degrees are actually in classics (Greek, Latin, and ancient history) and music performance. After a year in graduate school, I decided to leave academia and applied to law school while working here at Vorys, Sater,…
Name: Mike McDonald Location: Cleveland, Ohio What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? I transferred into litigation support from my role as a paralegal. My college degree is in audio production. Prior to entering the legal industry I worked as an audio engineer and had the obligatory stints as waiter…
Name: Julie Carmona Location: Columbus, Ohio What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? I was a trial paralegal for about 13 years. How did you get the opportunity to join the litigation support community? I moved to Columbus, Ohio in 2003 from Dallas, Texas and I had the opportunity to…
Name: Tania Mabrey Location: Washington, DC What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? I feel like I have always been doing litigation support work since graduating from college – I just didn’t realize it at the time. My first job after college was working as an honors paralegal for the…
Name: Kimberly Peterson Location: Seattle, WA What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? When I finished paralegal school in 1992, the market in San Diego was flooded with newbie paralegals and I ended up taking a job as a legal secretary. Generally speaking, legal secretaries in San Diego are very…
Name: Patrick Murphy Location: Washington, DC What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? I started my career in litigation support, in a way, as a project assistant (read: spreadsheet monkey) for the securities team at a law firm. I have spent periods of my career away from it, in IT…
Name: Ken Marchese Location: Washington, DC What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? I was driving a fish truck and doing carpentry on the side. How did you get the opportunity to join the litigation support community? I went to paralegal school and was working as a gopher at a…
Name: Bonnie-Elizabeth Powers Location: Washington, DC What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? I was a legal assistant and about halfway through the process of applying to law school. How did you get the opportunity to join the litigation support community? Like most people who’ve been in more than 10…
Name: Quentin Denney Location: New Orleans, LA What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? My previous life had me staring into the eyes of wicked and wonderful viruses that laid waste to all sorts of exotic animals. I was freshly graduated with degrees in BioMed and Zoology looking to make…
Name: Laurie King Location: New York, NY What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? I was a legal assistant working in Michigan for a medium-sized law firm handling defense insurance matters. How did you get the opportunity to join the litigation support community? When I was a legal assistant for…
Name: Debbie Westwood Location: Phoenix, AZ What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? I was working as a litigation paralegal for a large law firm. How did you get the opportunity to join the litigation support community? The office I was working at needed someone to take over the technical…
Name: Bowe Kurowski Location: Los Angeles, CA What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? I started as a coder stuck in a room with 5 other people around a conference table. Fortunately, the person that was managing the case was an aspiring actor and ended up landing a job, which…
Name: Ashley Moring Location: Washington, DC What kind of work were you doing before litigation support found you? Paralegal How did you get the opportunity to join the litigation support community? There was only one litigation support person in our office at the time and I had been assisting them when needed. Once they had…
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