1. Preparing for Success: How To Advance
Your Career in E-Discovery
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
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4. Introduction
Jared Michael Coseglia | President and Founder
TRU Staffing Partners
• Successfully placed more than 1500 professionals
in full-time and temporary positions
• TRU celebrating 5-year anniversary in January
• TRU ranked as Top 3 Best National Legal Recruiter
by National Law Journal
• Voted best Legal & Litigation Support Agency in
New York Law Journal
5. This webcast is for any aspiring, mid-level, or veteran professional in
the e-discovery and legal technology space who is looking to stay
current with industry hiring trends, improve value and marketability to
a current or future employer, has curiosities about what to learn next,
and wants to accelerate earning potential. Today we will discuss:
• Careers in e-discovery as they relate to different geographic market
variables
• Hiring trends for various levels of talent (analysts, specialists, project
managers, managers, directors, consultants, sales, and more)
• Vertical and horizontal growth options
• Salary statistics based on geography, position, and years of
experience
• How to be more marketable and valuable
This webcast provides supplementary material to the ACEDS West
Coast E-Discovery Summit (October 21-22, San Francisco).
Today’s agenda
16. EAST WEST MIDWEST
TECHNICIAN 40K-60K + OT 40K-55K + OT 30K-55K + OT
ANALYST 65K-85K + OT 45K-85K + OT 45K-75K + OT
SPECIALIST 85K-115K + OT 75K-130K + OT 65K-100K + OT
PM/COORDINATOR 70K-150K + bonus or
OT
60K-130K + bonus 60K-130K + bonus
CONSULTANT 100K-350K + bonus 85K-300K + bonus 80K-250K + bonus
DIRECTOR/MANAGER 125K-200K + bonus 125K-200K + bonus 125K-175K + bonus
SALES 75K-100K or 100K-
150K + commission
75K-100K or 100K-
150K + commission
75K-125K +
commission
Salary Averages by Region
17. East Coast Specifics
• 10 times the opportunity (5 times the cost of living)
• New York means big business (Pharma, Fina, Telecom)
• DC means big government (ABCs, AmLaw)
• Charlotte, a town for contractors
• National vendor saturation and HQ
• Robust local vendor options
• Lots of available talent and always opportunity
• Searches take 6 – 12 weeks less time
• Bridge to Europe, UK
• Cultural differences – East vs West
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18. West Coast Specifics
• Paralegal Power
• “Silicon Valley has always done it themselves”
• National vendor contracts vs. local players
• Less opportunity, often period of NO opportunity
• Less talent
• Searches take 6 – 24 weeks longer than East Coast
• Salary gap, from entry to veteran
• Salaries 5-15% below East, or 5-15% above East
• Bridge to Asia
• Cultural differences – West vs. East
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19. MidWest Specifics
• Chicago growing rapidly, needs sales reps
• Houston over Dallas, Austin, San Antonio
• Kansas City rising for Ops
• Minnesota insular
• Opportunity Ebbs and Flows
• Salaries 20-40% below East/West
• Bridge to South and Central America
• Cultural differences – this ain’t the coast!
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24. Where to see Jared next:
ILTA 2014 Conference – “Geek to Chic: Smoothing the Techie Edges by
Developing Advisory Skills” – Panel discussion on Monday, August 18th at
2:30PM
http://conference.iltanet.org/
ACEDS West Coast e-Discovery Summit, October 21-22
http://www.ediscoverysummit.com/register-now/
TRU and NYLJ:
Vote for TRU Staffing Partners (by August 1st) in the New York Law Journal
Reader Rankings – Page 11, Questions 1, 3, and 4
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2014ReaderRankings
25. Jared Michael Coseglia
President, TRU Staffing Partners, Inc.
o: 718.685.2092
jared@trustaffingpartners.com
www.trustaffingpartners.com
www.linkedin.com/in/jaredcoseglia
Notas do Editor
Hello and welcome to this ACEDS webcast, Preparing for Success: How to Advance Your Career in E-Discovery, presented by Tru Staffing Partners. I’m your host Robert Hilson of ACEDS, and I’m pleased to be joined today by a great speaker who I’ll introduce in a moment. But first I have a couple of brief announcements.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with us, We are a members-only association that provides training, resources, and networking to the e-discovery community. We also offer the Certified E-Discovery Specialist credential, which is held by nearly a thousand professionals across the Americas, Europe and Asia. You can join today and start receiving a number of benefits exclusive to our members, including news content, on-demand web seminars, our bits+bytes newsletter and discounts on certification and our West Coast E-Discovery Summit in October.
The Summit is just three months away. We will be gathering at the historic Westin St. Francis in San Francisco where experts in the field will give guidance and best practices to enable paralegals and litigation support professionals to perform essential e-discovery roles in their law firms and legal departments. The event features six panels on Day 1 and certification preparation on Day 2, plus great networking events. You can register now for as low as $195, and as a special thank you for attending today’s program, if you enter the code “TRU20,” you will receive a 20 percent discount.
I am pleased to be joined again by Jared Coseglia, founder and president of Tru Staffing Partners in New York. Jared has more than a decade of experience representing talent in e-Discovery and Litigation Support and has successfully placed more than 1500 professionals in full-time and temporary positions at the AmLaw 200, Fortune 1000, and within the Legal Technology Service Provider community. From 2004 to 2009, Jared co-founded and served as the Sr. Vice President at The Cowen Group, quickly becoming a globally recognized “go-to” person for clients and candidates in need of staffing solutions or career guidance and management. Recently, TRU was ranked as a Top 3 Best National Legal Recruiter in Best of The National Law Journal Awards, as well as Best Legal & Litigation Support Agency by the New York Law Journal. Jared will also be giving guidance on career development in light of e-discovery and legal technology trends at the ACEDS West Coast Summit, and will hit on some of those topics today.
Jared, it’s great to have you back. Thanks for joining us.
Before we begin, I want to quickly tell our audience that we will be fielding questions. Please type them into the chat box on the right of your screen, and we will get to them at the end of the presentation. Okay, Jared, it’s all yours.