Glowing EPA Performance Evaluation October/November, 2004 Region 3, TechLaw has once again earned an outstanding performance evaluation from EPA Region 3 on its Regional Oversight Contract (ROC) Region 3 contract. TechLaw's Technical, Schedule and Business Relations scores were all 4-out-of-5, with a score of 5-out-of-5 for cost control. This is the fourth consecutive year that TechLaw has received this set of ratings from EPA. An EPA Deliverable of a Different Sort September/October, 2004 Dallas, Texas, TechLaw's Mr. Wally O'Rear was commissioned by the EPA to create a large poster (59" by 96") for EPA's Region 6. The poster was to depict their Brownfields aggressiveness. This huge task had its obstacles, least of which was the creative process. Mr. O'Rear has created artwork and graphics for the EPA on other occasions, but a project this size comes with unique difficulties when it comes to printing and staying within budget. Though there were some compromises, Wally managed to keep the customer satisfied. Initially, Mr. O'Rear explains, “I gave them [the local print shop] a printed [reference] image of the poster [and] they couldn’t come even close to a good color image (both contrast and color)."   This resulted in compromising down to a smaller poster size and a different print shop. Mr. O'Rear attributes much of the problem to graphic file conversion. "When the vendor gets the [Windows] image they have to convert it to their Mac [platform] and that is where I believe the color problems occur" he explained. Mr. O'Rear worked through the obstacles and confirms, "They got what they ask for...In the end they loved it." Click the reduced version below for a larger view of Mr. O'Rear's finished EPA deliverable!

TechLaw Awarded Medals for Outstanding Service

September, 2004

Roswell, New Mexico; (paraphrased from a Gene Barber e-mail) Two of our staff members in Sacramento, Amy Romero and Cheryl Mahoney, were recognized in September by the U.S. Corps of Engineers Sacramento District for outstanding service on the Walker AFB project (Former Walker Air Force Base ¹FUDS site). The ²NMED regulator wrote to Colonel Michael J. Conrad, Jr. and thanked the Sacramento District for expediting this project and performing a thorough evaluation of the site in lieu of other districts that had procrastinated for a number of years. FUDS program manager, Jerry Vincent, expressed his appreciation by including TechLaw staff and the rest of the project team in the recognition. Amy and Cheryl both received a very nice medal in a ceremony where the awards were presented by the Colonel. Over the years, TechLaw has routinely provided excellent support for our client, but this is the first time we were recognized! 

In addition to Cheryl’s and Amy’s efforts, this huge project required significant efforts from many others; Amy Ballow, Michelle Lonsinger, Lisa Tyson, Bill Fear, Melissa Sauter, Josh Peterson, Amie Motsinger, Brandi Kirchhoff, Sam Hubbell, Karin Bernstein, Ken Schroeder, and Susan Pearson.

TechLaw senior staff consultant, Gene Barber, continues the praise by writing, "Specifically, this project could not have been completed to the extent it was without the efforts of Lisa Tyson, Bill Fear, and Michelle Lonsinger. Additionally, on the last two versions of the report we had the outstanding efforts of Kelly and Donna from Jay's group. As always Brandi and Sam put in a huge effort to get things done. I don't want to leave anyone out and appreciate everyone's incredible efforts. These reports are by far one of the largest production efforts we have had since the AFP 14 project and couldn't have been accomplished without a tremendous team effort. Thanks to all of you."

___________________________________________________ |  1 FUDS stands for formerly used defense sites. |  2 NMED stands for New Mexico Environmental Department.

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Further Milestones in ISO 14001 Effort

TechLaw Client, PennDOT, Achieves Further Milestones in ISO 14001 Effort

May 2004

Marlton, NJ: TechLaw congratulates the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s Engineering District 4 and 11 on its key maintenance activities being recommended for registration to the ISO 14001 Standard. Joining Districts 10 and 12, this represents another achievement in PennDOT’s plan to have all its Engineering Districts ISO 14001 registered by the end of next year, the largest state government agency commitment in the U.S. TechLaw is honored to have been chosen by PennDOT to facilitate their Strategic Environmental Management Program (SEMP) and has brought its ISO 14001 Toolkit© and its expertise to all stages of this implementation effort including:

Policy Development

Planning

Implementation and Operation

Checking and Corrective Action

Management Review

TechLaw has been given the responsibility for training PennDOT’s internal auditors (currently over 100) as well as more information about our range of support can be found under the Environmental Services category on this Web site.

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TechLaw Hires New Vice President                                            Kevin O’Connor to Head Litigation Support & Information Management Division

March 2004

Chantilly, VA :   TechLaw a leading provider of litigation support and information services to law firms, corporations and the government, is pleased to announce that Kevin O’Connor has joined the company as vice president and director of the Litigation Support and Information Management Division.  For the past 20 years, Mr. O’Connor has helped law firms and corporate legal departments apply technology to better the practice of law.

Kevin O’Connor is one of the legal industry’s foremost technology experts, especially in applications for e-discovery, and knowledge and information management, said TechLaw President, Matt Low.  We have rolled out some exciting, new electronic discovery tools in the past year and we are thrilled to have Kevin on our team to help expand our services in this emerging area.

Prior to joining TechLaw, Mr. O’Connor managed sales and operations divisions at SRA International’s legal services division, served in a variety of technology roles at Dow Lohnes & Albertson PLLC, and served in positions with legal vendors in the integration and litigation support arenas. Mr. O’Connor has managed the development of more than $200M in revenues over the course of his career.  He is an accomplished public speaker and published author on a variety of legal technology topics, from knowledge management to trial support.  Mr. O’Connor co-chaired American Lawyer Media’s Knowledge Management Symposium and was the founder of the Legal Knowledge Management Forum. 

I’m proud to be affiliated with TechLaw, a company that shares my commitment to taking care of clients first and foremost.  Because of this unswerving focus, I believe that we have huge potential to grow in order to help more businesses and law firms effectively meet their complex litigation support requirements, O’Connor said.