New Business Development Professional to Lead Legal Advantage’s Expansion of Intellectual Property Service Offerings

Bethesda, MD(Jan 1, 2010)- Legal Advantage, LLC, a leading provider of intellectual property and litigation support services, today announced that David Hemperly has been promoted as Vice President of Business Development, based in the company’s Bethesda, Maryland headquarters. Hemperly will assume business development and marketing responsibilities for the company’s award winning patent illustration, prior art search services, patent and technical translation, and trial graphics services.

Hemperly has eighteen years of experience in leadership roles at the forefront of the legal industry with responsibilities encompassing business development, marketing, and management. Hemperly joined Legal Advantage three years ago and was responsible for establishing and growing sales in the Washington, DC marketplace. He achieved this quickly by listening and responding to client feedback, providing AM Law 200 firms with exceptional customer service. He also assumed national responsibility for marketing and industry events.

Mr. Hemperly has held senior sales and marketing positions at a number of legal and marketing service companies, including Peer-Web, Inc., Active Interest Media, Neopost, Inc., and Yellow Book USA. As National Accounts Manager/Sales Manager of Peer-Web, Inc., Mr. Hemperly led successful client accumulation with 200% growth in revenue, and helped the company secure numerous marketing Fortune 1000 customers. In addition, Mr. Hemperly was a Regional Account Manager at Neopost, Inc., a leading supplier of mailing and document handling products to law firms.

“We continue to expand our resources to support our market penetration in the patent market,” Mirza Baig, Legal Advantage’s Chief Executive Officer. “David’s leadership in addressing his client’s needs and winning their loyalty has proved to be a winning combination for Legal Advantage and our clients. But beyond David’s project management and sales expertise, he understands the value of Legal Advantage’s core IP products and how to marry that with the legal profession while broadening our relationships within these firms. I look forward to David’s contributions to lead the company into this next stage of growth,” Baig added.

ABOUT LEGAL ADVANTAGE: Legal Advantage is a leading provider of cost-effective legal services to intellectual property attorneys, patent agents, paralegals, and individual inventors. For nine years Legal Advantage has been a leading provider in Prior Art Searches (patentability, freedom to operate (FTO), clearance, validity/ invalidity, infringement, and landscape analysis), Patent Illustration (Patent Drawing) and Design Services, technical translations (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and over 20 other languages), patent trial graphics, and 3-D animation. To date, we have successfully completed over 19,000 projects for law firms and corporations throughout the United States and abroad.

Founded by seasoned intellectual property attorneys and litigators, Legal Advantage combines unparalleled dependability, accuracy, and client service – resulting in a stellar client retention rate that is among the highest in the industry.

Legal Advantage is headquartered in the Washington DC suburb of Bethesda, MD and has offices in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Ottawa, and Toronto.

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Tuesday, October 29, 2008

Bethesda, MD – Legal Advantage, a pioneer in the legal services industry, is proud to announce its compliance with the international standard for environmental management, the ISO 14001.
ISO 14001 approach requires organizations to evaluate all areas of activities where there is an environmental impact.  Compliance with ISO 14001 can benefit firms by reducing costs of waste management, savings on consumption of energy and other resources, reduction in distribution costs, an improved corporate image as well as a framework for continual improvement.
Commenting on this accomplishment, Mirza Baig, CEO of Legal Advantage said “Environmental stewardship is a Legal Advantage core value and achieving the ISO 14001 compliance exemplifies our commitment to conduct business with state of the art environmental practices.  The ISO 14001 framework will help protect and enhance the environment and our business.  We are proud to have reached this milestone where we have minimized our impact on the environment.”
“We proudly understand our environmental responsibilities and are continuously implementing strategies to help minimize our impact on the environment while continuing to improve the service to our customers,”said Harold Pieroway, Director of Operations.
Samba Rao, Vice President, Operations, added “Our commitment to environmental management is absolute as we have an exclusive ‘Green’ team. This team  takes care of all things eco-friendly, with special emphasis on the use of non-renewable resources, waste avoidance, effective waste disposal and life cycle planning.  Legal Advantage will continue to evolve in its environmental management systems, and our ISO 14001 compliance is a testimony to our efforts.”
ABOUT LEGAL ADVANTAGE: With over seven years of solid industry experience, Legal Advantage has carved a niche for itself in the Intellectual Property Services arena.  Legal Advantage offers a full suite of legal services.  For intellectual property attorneys, patent agents and individual inventors, Legal Advantage offers services including Prior Art Searches, Patent Proofreading Services, Patent Illustration & Design Services as well as drafting of patent applications.
Legal Advantage provides world-class services in litigation support including document review, legal research and trial graphics. The real benefits derived from these services include reduced costs, faster project completion, and a higher quality end-product deliverable.
The firm has set the gold standard for legal support services with advanced technological capabilities, proven process methodologies, innovation, including consistently cost-effective and higher-than-industry-standard quality offerings.
Founded by seasoned intellectual property attorneys and litigators with over 25 years of legal experience, Legal Advantage combines unparalleled dependability, accuracy, and client service – resulting in a stellar client retention rate that is among the highest in the industry.
Legal Advantage also has a full range of Litigation Support services ranging from Electronic Discovery and Document Review services to Contract management and memo writing services.