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A New York legal services company is hiring 100 people over the next year for its new Charlotte office, company officials announced Tuesday.
DiscoverReady, which analyzes e-mails and electronic documents for law firms and corporate legal departments, is opening the office on Trade Street uptown in mid-June. The company has already hired about two dozen workers and will hire others in waves throughout the year, said Jim Wagner Jr., DiscoverReady's chief executive officer.
About a third of the positions will be full time; the others will be temporary and contract jobs, he said. Most of the company's workers are attorneys, but company officials are also looking for project managers, office staff and other employees.
DiscoverReady was founded in 2005 and has offices in New York and India. The new Charlotte office will allow it to better serve clients in the Southeast and target potential business from law firms and Fortune 500 companies in the area, Wagner said.
The decision to open an office here was also based on a deep talent pool and the city's quality of life and affordability, he said.
“Charlotte in general is just a very positive place to do business,” Wagner said.
The electronic discovery field has grown dramatically in recent years as law firms and companies sought to cut costs by outsourcing the discovery and document-review processes, DiscoverReady officials said. They expect the recession, which has pinched companies' budgets and sparked a greater surge of lawsuits, to further drive the industry's growth.
For more information on Discover Ready and positions there, go to www.discoverready.com and click “careers.”
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