Jonathan Maas

Experience

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  Various

  Jan 1980 - Jan 1982

  Commercial forester
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  Hogan Lovells

  Jan 1982 - Jan 1994

  Legal Assistant/Litigation Support Team Leader

  Started on a two week temporary contract in the firm's Commercial Litigation Department and ended running the firm's litigation support function from within their IT department, having moved to IT in 1989 to help them better serve their fee-earning community. A typical IT project was implementing and managing the firm's library system, Sirsi, working closely with the PSLs and library staff.

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  Simmons & Simmons

  Jan 1994 - Jan 1999

  Litigation Support Manager

  The firm's first Litigation Support Manager, based as a fee-earner in the Litigation Department. Ran a steady team of around 10 paralegals servicing all procedural and technical requirements of a variety of departments, bolstered as needed by a team of up to 100 temporary paralegals conducting matter-specific document reviews and ad hoc support generally.

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  Litigation Support Company

  Feb 1999 - Oct 2000

  Managing Director

  My own litigation support consultancy established with two Simmons & Simmons colleagues on the back of the Woolf Reforms to civil procedure in England and Wales. The expectation was those reforms would impose a higher and more sophisticated degree of project management on litigious matters, with a concomitant increase in the deployment of technical solutions.

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  Simmons & Simmons

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2005

  Editor, elexica and Litigation Support Consultant

  Responsible for all content on and structure of the firm's multi-award-winning know-how web site, www.elexica.com. Confirmed at the time by the firm's managing partner as the best marketing investment the firm had ever made, the site went from a rather informal site used by around 5,000 visitors to a registration-based vehicle accessed by 25,000+ and a winner of more than 100 legal and internet awards. Its like has never been repeated.

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  The Litigation Support Technology Group (LiST)

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2010

  Founding member

  LiST was a unique London-based think tank with international reach. It was first formed in 2003 by a group of litigation support specialists with the aim of encouraging and developing a uniformity of approach to the use of technology in litigation and in other forms of dispute resolution. From 2010 LiST went into slow decline as its exclusively volunteer membership found less time to devote to the Group’s ground-breaking activities.

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  DLA Piper

  Jan 2006 - Feb 2010

  Head of Litigation Technology

  Responsible for driving eDiscovery applications and procedures forward and selecting and implementing appropriate user-facing technology to help the lawyers work smarter. Along the way I was responsible for the then largest UK-based Relativity database of some 50+ million items.

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  EY

  Mar 2010 - Apr 2014

  Assistant Director

  On 29 March 2010 I joined EY's Forensic Technology & Discovery Services team, part of their wider Fraud Investigations and Dispute Services team in London.My role is to continue to lead from the front in the fast-developing international area of eDisclosure/eDiscovery thinking and practice, to help to promote EY's services globally and, of course, to attract new business. I am mainly involved in large and international discovery matters and I am often brought in to turn around more challenging matters. Working with the UK Government is turning into a particular speciality. I also have responsibility for direct liaison with EY's technology team to deliver and maintain the infrastructure and processes required to support EY's global eDiscovery service.A large part of my time is spent supporting and developing the team around me, informally and formally mentoring them on any career or personal matters they care to share with me. Even though I no longer work at EY I continue to mentor a number of ex-colleagues as they face new challenges in their lives. This is a very important part of my professional life and one that I personally cherish.Copy and paste this URL to read the thoughts of the eDisclosure Information Project's Chris Dale on my joining EY:http://chrisdale.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/jonathanWhilst at EY I created my daily BONG! email update, first as a purely internal service; it became so popular I included the external eDiscovery - and wider - community. Show less

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  Litigation Support Group

  Jan 2014 - Dec 2015

  Steering group member

  LiST - www.listgroup.org - is a unique London-based think tank with international reach. It was first formed in 2003 by a group of litigation support specialists with the aim of encouraging and developing a uniformity of approach to the use of technology in litigation and in other forms of dispute resolution. From 2010 LiST went into slow decline as its exclusively volunteer membership found less time to devote to the Group’s ground-breaking activities.Briefly in 2014/2015 the Group was revived by a small number of original members and some much-needed new blood. Hopefully LiST’s goals and mantle will be taken on by the recent launch of ACEDS’ London chapter.Contact list@listgroup.org for more details or membership enquiries. Show less

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  Huron

  Apr 2014 - Dec 2015

  Senior Director of UK Client Services

  Leading Huron Legal's discovery/disclosure team in London. Highlights include:* Implemented a Personal Development Plan scheme for all staff* Recovered £600,000+ aged debt* Attracted £2m+ sales* Led Huron London from debt to profitThe corporate speak is that "Huron's solution removes many of the burdens associated with discovery. It encompasses collections, processing, the ICA® (Immediate Case Assessment), hosting, document review, production and project management. This unique solution helps reduce litigation costs while giving the legal team a distinct competitive advantage through a powerful combination of people, process and technology.Our process is holistic, including review professionals, project management, equipment and office space. We have the expertise to complete any discovery project regardless of scale or deadline in the most reliable, cost-effective manner possible.We deliver a repeatable and defensible approach, allowing you to stop re-creating the discovery process for each new matter."The Jonathan speak is that this exciting service is unique and for the first time offers clients considerable cost and time savings in an entirely transparent and collaborative environment. Talk to me about V3locity: we offer processing, hosting, analytics, project management, document review AND production for a one-off price per document. Wow!Copy and paste this URL to read the thoughts of the eDisclosure Information Project's Chris Dale on me and Serge Poldi joining Huron Legal:http://www.chrisdaleoxford.co.uk/updates/jonathan-maas-and-serge-poldi-join-huron-legal-in-londonOn 31 December 2015 Huron Legal was acquired by Consilio. Show less

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  Consilio LLC

  Jan 2016 - Sept 2016

  Senior Director

  Consilio specialises in the delivery of computer forensics and electronic disclosure/discovery support to corporations and law firms involved in domestic and international litigation, arbitration and regulatory investigations. These services include best practice consulting, computer forensics, worldwide data collection, data filtering, document review software, managed multilingual document review, production and legal translation. Services can be delivered from Consilio’s global network of offices (including locations in Switzerland, Germany and Japan) or at client sites as required. Show less

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  The Maas Consulting Group

  Oct 2016 - now

  Managing Director

  Through The Maas Consulting Group my expertise is available to help in those places where law and technology traditionally disconnect. This translates into extremely experienced and empathetic support for lawyers and IT professionals. Projects successfully completed include:* Working closely with a law firm in Chicago to identify, select and implement a suitable eDiscovery platform;* Advising a South African eDiscovery service provider on their go-to-market strategy and their marketing material, including content on their web site;* Acting as the eDisclosure expert for a self-representing litigant pushing back against an opponent's various alleged eDisclosure irregularities;* Taking a large law firm's case-specific and convoluted eDisclosure strategy and simplifying the process to get it back on track;* Covering for the Litigation Support Manager whilst on maternity leave from a City law firm;* Helping a UK eDiscovery document review provider with online and in-person marketing, including support during a European eDiscovery conference;* Working with a national law firm to draw out their User Requirements for the selection of appropriate tools to assist them in day-to-day electronic bundle creation;* Many successful implementations of MaaS (Me as a Service);* Regular daily issues my BONG! email containing selections of international eDisclosure / eDiscovery / legal IT / data protection / information governance / interesting news / articles (started in 2011, discontinued in 2022); and* Frequent expert advice on alleged tampering of electronic documents by examining the metadata.Feel free to contact me to find out how I can help you. In the unlikely event that I can’t I'll usually know someone who can. Show less

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  Orange Rag (Legal IT Insider)

  Oct 2018 - Oct 2019

  Regular contributor and proofer

  I contributed two regular columns each month: In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) (based on my daily eD / GDPR / AI BONG email updates) and What's Hot and What's Not, detailing that month's movers and deals. I also conducted final proof of all copy before going to print.

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  Servient, Inc

  May 2021 - Sept 2022

  Head of Advisory

  Helping to grow Servient's existing presence outside the US, working with great people to introduce fantastic data wrangling software to the legal market: easy to use, simple low fee structure, no hidden costs, complete control retained by the lawyer, no start up time, no pointless project-based infrastructure, excellent for disclosure/discovery, investigations, data subject access requests (DSARs), works for both small and massive matters. Want to stay in control of your matters AND spend as little time as possible managing boring data? Servient is all you need: www.servient.com. Show less