TERIS Hires Ian Bagger as Director of Client Services for its Growing Bay Area Region

dkaufer@discoverteris.com (David Kaufer) — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:19:38 GMT

PALO ALTO, CA – April 26, 2011 – TERIS Bay Area announced today that it has hired Ian Bagger as its Director of Client Services for the Bay Area Region. In assuming this new position for the company, Bagger will build and manage an important group responsible for overall client satisfaction. He brings to TERIS a deep background in litigation and electronic discovery management, following a successful career as a practicing attorney. TERIS Bay Area continues to see a dramatic increase in its eDiscovery business in the Bay Area thus far in 2011, and it counts on Bagger to strengthen the client services offering TERIS’s growing business will require.

Bagger has more than 20 years of professional experience, successfully migrating from an early career as an attorney to become one of the industry's top eDiscovery project management experts. He comes to TERIS from Black Letter Discovery, where he personally managed large-scale electronic discovery projects for AmLaw 100 firms and general counsels of large corporations. While at Black Letter, he also built and led the team of project managers. In addition to serving as an attorney and eDiscovery project manager, Bagger has experience as a professional instructor, having taught preparation courses for students studying for the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) for over seven years.

At TERIS, his responsibilities include:

Consulting on eDiscovery management for large and complex cases
Overseeing the Bay Area Client Services department
Enhancing TERIS’s best practices
Designing cost effective strategies for exploiting TERIS’s suite of eDiscovery technologies
Ensuring that our clients continue to receive the high level project management that they’ve come to expect from TERIS

“Ian has a wide range of professional legal experience that will serve our clients well as Director of Client Services,” said Kevin Brooks, Executive Vice President, TERIS Northern California. “Combined with our other recent hires, TERIS professionals now offer a breadth of expertise that adds real value to our clients as we continue to provide five star service in the marketplace. We are excited about the growth prospects for Ian and are confident he will help us continue to improve our clients' experience with TERIS.”

Ian is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and received his JD from the University of California, Los Angeles. . He also earned a Diploma with Honors from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center.

ABOUT TERIS

Founded in 1996, TERIS provides legal support and sophisticated eDiscovery solutions to corporate legal teams and law firms across the U.S. and internationally. TERIS’ staff of over 300 was named one of the top 20 eDiscovery service providers by industry researcher Socha-Gelbmann in 2008. The company has offices in Seattle, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, SanDiego, Phoenix, Austin, Dallas, Houston and Chicago. To learn more about TERIS, visit www.TERIS.com or follow the company on Twitter at Twitter.com/DiscoverTERIS or Facebook (Facebook.com/TERIS).

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

TERIS Hires Rhett Thomas as New Project Manager for its Growing Silicon Valley Office

dkaufer@discoverteris.com (David Kaufer) — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:01:05 GMT

PALO ALTO, CA – February 23, 2011 – TERIS Bay Area announced today the hiring of Rhett Thomas as Project Manager for its growing Silicon Valley office. TERIS Bay Area has seen a dramatic increase in its eDiscovery business in the Bay Area over the past year.

Rhett has more than 10 years of IP litigation experience on the law firm side of the industry, beginning his career as a paralegal and then moving into the Litigation Support department. He comes to TERIS after eight years at Townsend and Townsend and Crew, LLP, where he most recently was a litigation support specialist. As a paralegal he was involved in roughly 40 matters, five of which went to trial in various districts, including an appearance with the International Trade Commission.

At TERIS, his responsibilities include managing the litigations process for one its primary clients. This includes:

Insuring requested custodian materials are received and prepared for review
Managing the use of Clearwell with the client
Interfacing with clients and outside counsel
Providing eDiscovery project management for complex litigation cases, including database management, best practices, cost effective workflow, web-based data tools, electronic discovery processes and document analysis.
Acting as a liaison to coordinate and manage clients, corporate and outside counsel
Researching, evaluating, testing and advising the client on existing and potential litigation support tools

"TERIS is excited to have Rhett joining our strong Bay Area project management team,” said Kevin Brooks, Executive Vice President, TERIS Northern California. “Our eDiscovery business experienced very strong growth in 2010 – and we are already off to a great start in 2011. Rhett's experience as a paralegal as well as litigation support specialist will be essential as he understands the myriad of issues involved in project management. He will play a key role in our company's growth and expansion plans in the Bay Area.”

Rhett is a graduate of Arizona State University.

ABOUT TERIS

Founded in 1996, TERIS provides legal support and sophisticated eDiscovery solutions to corporate legal teams and law firms across the U.S. and internationally. TERIS’ staff of over 300 was named one of the top 20 eDiscovery service providers by industry researcher Socha-Gelbmann in 2008. The company has offices in Seattle, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, San Diego, Phoenix, Austin, Dallas, Houston and Chicago. To learn more about TERIS, visit www.TERIS.co m or follow the company on Twitter at Twitter.com/DiscoverTERIS or Facebook (Facebook.com/TERIS).

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

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