Tonight, we will celebrate the tenth anniversary of Level 2 Legal Solutions. I've written about this before in the Milestones post, but this is a huge accomplishment for our firm and for the employees that have dedicated so much to this business.
We've had a bit of an interesting path to get here, as it seemed we were always called to be bigger, faster, and up to new challenges before anyone would have planned. When Findlay Craft started, there was always going to be a document review component that would later spin out into its own separate unit. The planned year-year and a half roll-out got quickly condensed into a couple of months based on project demands. From there, we were going to be a niche or boutique review firm offering the highest quality review by a small band of attorneys in Tyler. And while the high quality of review has remained, project demands pushed us into a larger number of attorneys and into the Richardson office far sooner than anyone could have anticipated. Those same demands have pushed us to move from one office to our current space and to keep expanding our space to create more room for project associates and for more diverse company divisions.
And while we have had our share of dips in projects, as any company in a project based or "gig economy" faces, the demand for our services has continued to blossom and grow, pushing us into new and exciting territories. Last year, we worked on a record number of matters with a record number of project associates. Over our tenure, we have become a trusted partner for countless individual trial attorneys, AmLaw100 law firms, and Fortune 500 companies. We've even made the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies for two consecutive years in 2017 and 2018 (ranking 3112 and 1993, respectively).
Through it all, we've still been that scrappy little start up. We've fought and fought hard to maintain our reputation in the industry and to continue to make the magic happen for our clients and partners. Over the coming decade, we face the challenge of moving from that scrappy start up to an established industry partner, with all the headaches that the change will bring. We have a need to expand our business model, moving to the left in the EDRM model into processing and consulting. This will also necessitate a move to the right into production, making us more of a one-stop shop. We'll need to cement the new divisions of marketing, human resources, sales, and strategy, that will provide us the framework to continue to grow this office and hopefully beyond into new locations and frontiers.
Our promise is to continue to do so with the same valued care, competence, and courtesy that we bring to any matter.
I'm grateful for the ten years we have behind us and look forward to the, hopefully, ten years and more we have ahead.
To find out more about Level 2 Legal Solutions and who we are, visit our website here.
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Thursday, December 13, 2018
Holiday Parties - Why I Love My Work and Why I Love My Church
This week has marked the start of the holiday party season for the Keeler household. On Tuesday evening, Jamie had her annual Christmas Cast Party (the first year it has not been at our apartment). This evening, we will be attending the annual Level 2 Legal Solutions Holiday party in Richardson. This Sunday evening, we will have the privilege of attending the Volunteer Appreciation dinner at Stonepoint Church in Wills Point. Both are events we look forward to all year long.
The Level 2 Legal Solutions Holiday Dinner is truly one of the things that I love about my work and one of the things that really sets us apart from other companies in our field. Every year, our company gives back to its employees with a great dinner, door prizes, games, gifts, and a truly enjoyable evening. We'll close the office early and head out to dinner, with a drinks and plenty of opportunity to socialize. Everyone is there from the CEO to the newest reviewers.
For years, the dinner used to be held in Wills Point at Four Winds Steakhouse. The one night of the year my drive actually worked to my advantage. One benefit, I suppose, of having a four star steakhouse in your town half-way between the offices. We would bus all the reviewers out to Wills Point and back again. Last year, we finally moved the party up to Richardson, allowing an earlier end for everyone involved.
The dinner was also an opportunity for us to announce the recipients of the L2L Charitable Giving Grant Awards. Each year (and now multiple times a year), we ask the employees to nominate charities that are important to them for the opportunity for a grant for that organization. This is the fifth year of that program, I believe.
The dinner can be very difficult to schedule. We never know exactly how many people will be working on projects at the time, especially as far in advance as many locations need to know, so it takes a lot of coordination and preparation to pull it off as well as we do. It is noticed and very appreciated by our workforce.
The Volunteer Appreciation Dinner at Stonepoint is an opportunity for the staff of Stonepoint to say thank you to the many volunteers that help keep Stonepoint serving. They provide the meal and serve the many volunteers and provide the evenings entertainment. It's a night of games with prizes and consequences (our church is a big believer in consequences), with a few surprises along the way.
This will be Jamie and my third Volunteer Appreciation Dinner. It's a gesture that truly reflects the hearts of those on the staff of the church and their care for its members. A reminder that the Church is not the pastor, not the staff - it's the members of the body. This is just one of the many reasons Why I Love My Church.
I hope you and yours have many opportunities to get together with the various groups that make your lives great. From family, to friends, to church family, to co-workers. To enjoy this season and to look forward to greater things ahead.
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The Level 2 Legal Solutions Holiday Dinner is truly one of the things that I love about my work and one of the things that really sets us apart from other companies in our field. Every year, our company gives back to its employees with a great dinner, door prizes, games, gifts, and a truly enjoyable evening. We'll close the office early and head out to dinner, with a drinks and plenty of opportunity to socialize. Everyone is there from the CEO to the newest reviewers.
For years, the dinner used to be held in Wills Point at Four Winds Steakhouse. The one night of the year my drive actually worked to my advantage. One benefit, I suppose, of having a four star steakhouse in your town half-way between the offices. We would bus all the reviewers out to Wills Point and back again. Last year, we finally moved the party up to Richardson, allowing an earlier end for everyone involved.
The dinner was also an opportunity for us to announce the recipients of the L2L Charitable Giving Grant Awards. Each year (and now multiple times a year), we ask the employees to nominate charities that are important to them for the opportunity for a grant for that organization. This is the fifth year of that program, I believe.
The dinner can be very difficult to schedule. We never know exactly how many people will be working on projects at the time, especially as far in advance as many locations need to know, so it takes a lot of coordination and preparation to pull it off as well as we do. It is noticed and very appreciated by our workforce.
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The Volunteer Appreciation Dinner at Stonepoint is an opportunity for the staff of Stonepoint to say thank you to the many volunteers that help keep Stonepoint serving. They provide the meal and serve the many volunteers and provide the evenings entertainment. It's a night of games with prizes and consequences (our church is a big believer in consequences), with a few surprises along the way.
This will be Jamie and my third Volunteer Appreciation Dinner. It's a gesture that truly reflects the hearts of those on the staff of the church and their care for its members. A reminder that the Church is not the pastor, not the staff - it's the members of the body. This is just one of the many reasons Why I Love My Church.
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I hope you and yours have many opportunities to get together with the various groups that make your lives great. From family, to friends, to church family, to co-workers. To enjoy this season and to look forward to greater things ahead.
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Top Ten Things I'm Thankful For #3 - A job that while challenging is freeing as well
No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
I've often joked that I never wanted to actually be a lawyer in real life, I just wanted to play one on television. And even now, I'm not one looking to go into the courtroom, to be involved in that kind of drama.
I'm very grateful for the job that I have. It can be a challenge and it can be overwhelming, especially given the project nature of the work. The hours can be long, the drive can get grueling, and the work can get monotonous depending on the case. But I'm grateful to have a job with more built in flexibility than other forms of law.
I've written about my work before, but it bears repeating that in many ways, the emphasis in my job is more on project management than application of the law. I'm the one ensuring that the deadlines are met, utilizing resources to their highest efficiency, working through project strategy to make sure we identify the type of documents we are supposed to find.
This makes the job part investigative, part contemplative, part reading and part scheduling. It can present a new challenge every day and an opportunity to find a new and creative solution.
I'm ever grateful to have a job. I'm grateful to have a job that I'm good at. I'm grateful to have a job that has such flexibility.
I'm also grateful my company is fostering something like Idea Day. We took a whole day off as a company for the entire company to work on brainstorming ideas to make the company better. And I think we identified a few really exciting opportunities to make our company standout in our industry. I'm looking forward to tackling those in the days and months ahead.
To work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
I've often joked that I never wanted to actually be a lawyer in real life, I just wanted to play one on television. And even now, I'm not one looking to go into the courtroom, to be involved in that kind of drama.
I'm very grateful for the job that I have. It can be a challenge and it can be overwhelming, especially given the project nature of the work. The hours can be long, the drive can get grueling, and the work can get monotonous depending on the case. But I'm grateful to have a job with more built in flexibility than other forms of law.
I've written about my work before, but it bears repeating that in many ways, the emphasis in my job is more on project management than application of the law. I'm the one ensuring that the deadlines are met, utilizing resources to their highest efficiency, working through project strategy to make sure we identify the type of documents we are supposed to find.
This makes the job part investigative, part contemplative, part reading and part scheduling. It can present a new challenge every day and an opportunity to find a new and creative solution.
I'm ever grateful to have a job. I'm grateful to have a job that I'm good at. I'm grateful to have a job that has such flexibility.
I'm also grateful my company is fostering something like Idea Day. We took a whole day off as a company for the entire company to work on brainstorming ideas to make the company better. And I think we identified a few really exciting opportunities to make our company standout in our industry. I'm looking forward to tackling those in the days and months ahead.
To work worth doing.
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