PLA further expands litigation solutions practice with addition of John Sweeney and Mary Pat Poteet

Jan. 18, 2012 - PRLog -- Project Leadership Associates (PLA), a provider of high value business and technology consulting services to the legal market, today announced the addition of John Sweeney and Mary Pat Poteet to its burgeoning litigation solutions practice. With the addition of Sweeney and Poteet, PLA continues to expand its litigation solutions practice on a national level.

Sweeney, former president of Thomson Reuters Litigation Consulting Services will now serve as national practice director of Litigation Solutions at PLA. He has successfully driven record setting financial performances of professional services organizations in consulting, technology and legal markets on a national basis. Poteet is the former national litigation support director at DLA Piper and will be consulting PLA clients on the strategic and tactical use of technology and processes for their legal matters. She specializes in e-discovery, litigation support department optimization, litigation planning and data management.

“We are thrilled to have such highly accomplished litigation professionals joining PLA as we continue to grow and develop our business in key markets throughout the country. The expertise and impressive track records John and Mary Pat bring to PLA will surely resonate with our clients as we continue to solve the complex problems associated with the management of their electronically stored information (ESI) and legal matters,” said Dan Porcaro, PLA’s president and CEO.

PLA’s litigation solutions practice has worked with over 450 law firms and corporate legal departments, recording steady growth since 2004. They offer a complete suite of e-discovery services and technologies for the management of ESI and legal matters; including litigation planning, ESI management consulting, early data assessment, data processing, computer forensics and collection, on-line review platform, data hosting, litigation managed services and litigation support department optimization. The litigation solutions group also leverages PLA’s broad array of technology consulting and software development expertise from more than 150 consultants to customize their technology platforms to solve the difficult problems associated with their clients’ legal matters.

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Project Leadership Associates (PLA) is a business and technology consulting firm specializing in Strategy and Execution, Legal Solutions, Business Operations, Applications and Infrastructure. PLA’s national litigation solutions group helps law firms and corporate legal departments leverage technology to better manage their litigation process, utilizing highly efficient and best-in-class strategies. PLA’s national litigation solutions group helps law firms and corporate legal departments leverage technology to better manage their litigation process, utilizing highly efficient and best-in-class strategies. PLA’s e-discovery experts have over 60 years of litigation service experience and provide legally defensible process to all phases of the e-discovery lifecycle for their clients. For more information please contact Project Leadership Associates at LIT@projectleadership.net or visit www.projectleadership.net.