Conducted 3-month eDiscovery project involving 5 employees.

Began 9-month document review project involving 14 employees.

Began multi-year series of M&A diligence projects involving 5 employees.

Began 13-month telecom M&A due diligence project involving $5.8 Billion merger, including 17 employees.

Won first mission critical document review project for Energy client, involving 29 employees. Still working with client today.

Began work on second mission critical document review project for Energy client, involving 16 employees. Still working with client today.

• Continued to hone our project management skills as new projects rolled in by developing a tried-and-true mechanism for project setup, project bidding, project scoping, quality control, report delivery, and analysis unparalleled to anyone in the industry.

Chris Farmakis explains Solvaire’s project management difference.

Early 2000s:

• Founded our own staffing agency as it became increasingly clear that document review and discovery work was no longer viable to be performed solely by lawyers at full hourly rates.
• Put together a team of contract attorneys and temporary attorneys to be available on a project-specific basis, which put us on the cutting edge of providing these services.
• Over the years, many of the 500+ temporary staff that we hired either came to work for us full-time or were hired by clients.

Mid-late 1990s:

• Realized that technology could and should be leveraged to automate due diligence processes, in a way that wasn’t being done or even considered by lawyers at the time.
• Developed initial database and reporting systems in order to generate reports automatically, in real time.

Established office space in Two Gateway Center, Pittsburgh.