Management Profiles

President & Chief Executive Officer,

Hal is recognized as one of the legal community’s preeminent experts in the design, creation and implementation of Information Management Systems. 

Following a successful career marketing word processing systems to law firms on the west coast in the early 80’s, Hal dedicated his efforts in the ensuing 25+ years to innovations in the document management field. In 1984 Hal was instrumental in the introduction of Summation to the Los Angeles legal market.  In 1985 Hal co-founded the first off-shore coding company in theUS, effectively reducing the cost to index by over 50%.  Considered a radical move at the time off-shore coding quickly became the standard.

In 1989 Hal teamed up with IPRO to redesign their scanning and image viewing software for use in the legal market.  IPRO quickly became the market leader for delivering image based solutions to theUSlegal market and remains the standard today.  Hal’s next major innovative contribution to discovery management came in 1990 when he convinced Jeff Lipsman, Dataflight Corp. founder and author of Concordance,  to integrate his product with the IPRO image viewer.   Hal worked with Jeff Lipsman (Concordance) andJim King(IPRO) to market the first image based document management system to be used in the legal industry.  IPRO became the most successful national provider of e-discovery and imaging software.  Concordance (used by over 65,000 litigation support professionals), was acquired by LexisNexis in 2006.  IPRO and Concordance remain the two most widely used discovery management tools. 

In 1992 Hal was recruited by Legal Information Technology (“LIT”), a start-up enterprise that brought cutting-edge technology to the legal community.  With Hal’s assistance, LIT made a successful transition from the business of integrating PC’s and local area networks in law firms to becoming the leading provider of image based management systems and services.  LIT was listed #36 on Inc. Magazine's 500 Fastest-Growing Companies in 1994.  The Lead article in the magazine cited LIT’s ability to make the transition and adopt to change as a major factor in LIT’s rapid growth.

Under Hal’s tutelage and direction, LIT pioneered the use of imaging technology for discovery management and litigation support.  During his tenure at LIT, Hal introduced some of the nation’s leading law firms and major corporation to the automation of the discovery process.  Firms such as Cravath Swaine & Moore, Skadden Arps, Shearman & Sterling and corporations such as Caterpillar, IBM, Merck & Co and Novartis, just to name a few.  The early implementation of discovery management systems in key law firms by LIT, gave its clients a technological edge, secured major litigation wins and helped save its corporate clients millions of dollars. 

Following the sale of LIT to a NYSE corporation, Hal pursued consulting assignments.  In 1999, working with Fluor Daniels, Hal and Jeff Lipsman designed a system to automate the indexing of over twenty million emails stored on tapes.    In 2004 Hal was engaged by Pfizer to assist in the conversion of several hundred million native files to tiff images.  This venture led to the founding of Everest Technologies in January of 2006.  Everest quickly became a leading provider and innovator in the design, creation and implementation of discovery management systems.  Everest, as a discovery management vendor, specializes in ESI processing, managed review and production.

Hal holds a BA from California State University - Humboldt.

Director and  Senior Project Manager

Mark joined Everest with considerable expertise in the areas of litigation support and consulting.  He is responsible for developing strategy and overseeing operations on all client engagements.

Mark has more than 20 years of experience in the legal industry, including paralegal and litigation support positions at AMLAW 100 Law Firms.  With 14+ years experience as a litigation support manager, he has been personally responsible for managing all aspects of litigation support for law firms involved in complex litigation and intellectual property matters.  He has significant expertise in all areas of the litigation life-cycle, from discovery through trial, involving state, federal and ITC court actions.

He began his career in the legal industry while still in college, working part-time as a paralegal for Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy.  After a two-year hiatus to attend medical school, Mark returned to the industry as a litigation paralegal for Anderson Kill & Olick and was subsequently promoted to litigation support manager.  While at AKO, and later at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Mark managed the discovery aspects of large, complex litigations in the areas of insurance coverage, patent prosecution, securities, hotel management and re-insurance.

Having been responsible for the implementation and management of document management systems since 1991, his understanding of the strategic planning process for managing, analyzing and producing litigation materials is extensive.  Mark has also led large implementation initiatives in the area of web repositories for both large corporations and joint-defense counsel groups.  He has been a presenter at the New York LegalTech Conference.

Mark received a B.S. in Psychology from CUNY-Brooklyn College and attended SUNY-Downstate Medical School for 2 years.

Director of Operations

Aaron Duncan is the Director of Operations for Everest Technologies.  Aaronis is directly responsible and manages all reprographics, scanning, coding, printing, OCR, and conversion projects.

Aaron has been with Everest since their opening in January of 2006.  Prior to joining Everest, Aaron was the Production Manager for the Fitch Group in New York, responsible for all imaging and coding projects.  Aaron is a certified trainer for Concordance, and Opticon (Concordance Viewer).  During his time with the Fitch Group Aaron became certified in the IPRO suite of products and is proficient with all of the prominent litigation support tools.   

Aaron came to Everest with over six years experience working with law firms in the areas of coding and scanning.  Aaron began his career as a quality assurance manager for large scale coding projects.  As a quality assurance manager he was exposed to an array of document management systems used by corporate legal departments and law firms. Aaron’s commitment to quality has been instrumental in establishing Everest as a premier provider of litigation support services.

Project Manager

Kris is a Project Manager with vast technical expertise and has been with Everest Technologies since 2008. He was originally introduced to the industry as an account executive handling client relations and marketing.  Kris has combined his technical knowledge, with ongoing training to ultimately transition to a project management role.

Prior to Everest, Kris served as the Director of Technology Services for DTI, a national litigation support vendor.   Since joining Everest, Kris has progressed from managing small imaging and coding projects to complex, multi-party, ESI laden litigation.  Kris is an expert in electronic discovery processing and hosting solutions including:  iConect, FYI, Relativity, Law, Eclipse, eCapture, Summation and Concordance.   Kris works with attorneys, paralegals, and litigation support managers within major corporations and large law firms, providing case specific document management solutions and consulting services.

In addition to Kris’ primary responsibilities he is also called upon for his innovative and creative thinking for the development of software and design of marketing and branding materials.  With years of experience working with web and print design in his past he has been an integral component in designing the layout of application interfaces, as well as creating corporate presentation material.

VP of Sales

Mark joined Everest in July 2007 as a Senior Account Representative with an emphasis on business development to law firms and corporate legal departments.  As a Senior Account Representative Mark is responsible for overall client satisfaction at large law firms and corporations such as Podvey Meanor, Patton Boggs, Riker Danzig and Biomet.  Mark's responsibilities include business development, account management and client satisfaction.  Mark coordinates with Everest’s team of Project Managers, technical specialists, and production supervisors to ensure quality and deadline compliance on all engagements.

Mark has more than 20 years of legal, corporate and client services experience in the document management industry.  Mark has held key management positions for national document and e-discovery management companies such as Pitney Bowes Management Services, Uniscribe and Xact.  

Mark is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Northeastern University.