Jim Feuerstein

Principal

Jim Feuerstein spent most of his career running the company he founded in the early 1980s, J. Feuerstein Systems (JFS).

JFS was initially a litigation consulting firm that specialized in massive litigation. The firm's clients were Fortune 100 companies and the law firms that represented them. The projects the firm undertook related primarily to cases with exposure in the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars.

In those cases, Jim worked with clients to define information strategies and to design and build information systems to implement those strategies.

In many massive cases, Jim and his staff became an extension of the client. Under direction of client lawyers, they collected documents from client locations, managed the screening of collected documents, handled production of documents to opposing parties, responded to discovery requests, accepted service of complaints, and performed many other tasks that required the development of failure-proof processes.

Jim also consulted with law departments and law firms to develop standard processes and organizational structures for handling litigation within those organizations. This work was the forerunner of the Magellan's Law best practices consultancy.

A decade after the company was founded, Jim created JFS Litigator's Notebook™, a software product that enabled teams of litigators to share electronic "ring binders" of discovery information and work product. These electronic notebooks could be shared by lawyers in multiple locations.

As the Notebook became commercially successful in both the U.S. and the U.K., JFS gradually converted to a software company and Jim sold the business.

After selling JFS in the mid-1990s, Jim left the company and has since consulted in a variety of areas, including technology, litigation information management, and business development. He began working with Jane Gennarelli on release 2.0 of Best Practices in a Box in 2002 and joined her in the formation of Magellan's Law in 2003.