Serengeti's management team is made up of former law firm partners with more than 50 years combined legal experience. We understand the challenges of implementing new technologies at both companies and law firms. As a result, Serengeti was specifically designed by lawyers for lawyers to simplify the process of sharing electronic bills, updates, budgets, etc. between in-house and outside counsel.
EXPERIENCED TEAM
Serengeti's management team is comprised of legal and technical experts with specialties in the following areas:- Legal Technology Standards
- Attorney Performance Measurement
- Security, Privilege, and Web-based Transactions
- Infrastructure Design and Enterprise Software Systems.
Standards for Legal Technology
Don Murray is a recognized industry expert and frequent speaker to national professional organizations involved in setting standards for legal technology, including the ASP Consortium, the Insurance Industry Internet Standard Task Force, the Federation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel, the Defense Research Institute, and the American Bar Association. At the 2001 ABA Techshow, he delivered the keynote address assessing future trends in the development of legal technology.
Prior to joining the company in 1995, Don practiced law for more than twenty years, including the role of founder and managing partner of the Seattle office of the Bullivant Houser Bailey law firm. The five-office west coast firm specialized in all major types of complex litigation and business transactions. Don's specific practice areas focused on products liability, professional liability, commercial litigation, and director and officer liability. His clients included large insurance companies, manufacturers, and a broad range of professionals.
Don received a B.A. degree from the University of Washington and a J.D. from the Williamette University College of Law.
Attorney Performance Measurement
Rob Thomas is a widely published authority and frequent speaker on the use of technology for collaboration and the measurement of attorney performance. His articles have appeared in the ABA’s Law Practice Management, the ACC Docket, Risk Management, and LawNet’s Peer-to-Peer, including the keynote article for LawNet’s 2001 series of technology white papers for corporate legal departments. He has spoken on the use of legal technology by legal teams and attorney performance assessment at national professional conferences such as the ABA’s Techshow, ACC’s E-Lawyer, LawNet’s annual meeting, and the ABA National Conference on Professional Responsibility. He led the creation of the annual Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and Serengeti Managing Outside Counsel Survey, and for the past five years has written the 150+ page report analyzing the latest trends in how law departments are managing their work with outside law firms
Prior to joining Serengeti, Rob had more than twenty years of diverse experiences as a practicing attorney, including service as managing partner of Stokes Lawrence, a Seattle commercial law firm. Previously, he handled litigation and corporate finance transactions for Bogle & Gates, then the largest commercial law firm in Seattle. He has had extensive experience managing multi-firm national legal teams as coordinating counsel for large corporate clients. He has also handled international transactions while working with a Japanese law firm in Tokyo.
Rob received his undergraduate degree with honors and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University. His law degree is from Stanford Law School, where he was a member of the Stanford Law Review.
Security, Privilege and the Internet
Tom Melling is Serengeti’s Vice President, Product Management. He oversees the implementation and training team that supports law departments and law firms that are using Tracker. Tom has extensive experience as a transactional attorney specializing in business transactions, intellectual property, and e-commerce law.
Prior to becoming a Vice President of Serengeti Law, Tom practiced law at Perkins Coie in Seattle, Washington. His practice specialized in Internet and e-commerce law, including:
- Electronic contract enforceability
- Public key infrastructures
- Data privacy, protection, and use issues
- Encryption
- Regulatory compliance
- Documentation and negotiation of strategic alliances, technology licenses, co-branding agreements, and linking agreements
He also practiced at Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson, P.S., during which time he represented his primary client making multi-million dollar debt and equity investments in large real estate developments.
Tom received a B.A. in civil engineering from Brown University graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. His law degree is from Stanford Law School, where he was a member of the Stanford Law Review and received a Fellowship from the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation. After graduating from Stanford Law School, Tom clerked for Judge Jerome Farris, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Infrastructure Design and Enterprise Software Systems
Richard Boone is the Company’s Vice President, Operations. Richard heads the development team and the team that maintains the hardware and software infrastructure for Serengeti.
Richard has over twenty years of experience in the design, planning, and implementation of state-of-the-art technologies in diverse industries. This includes enterprise level responsibility for data security, on-line transaction processing, project management, client/server development, network design and operation, and infrastructure design and operation. The industries in which he has worked include financial services, insurance, commercial software, forest products, and telecommunications. Just prior to joining Serengeti, he managed the technical infrastructure for a rapidly growing national wireless telecommunications company. His duties included management of enterprise voice and data network design, and technical operations support for multiple call centers, corporate operations, and data processing centers.
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