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About Lumen Legal
Lumen Legal is a privately held, entrepreneur-driven company. We’re a global team of attorneys, paralegals, and staffing service professionals that has a common purpose: Provide corporations and law firms with high-value human resource and legal-service solutions that raise efficiency, reduce costs, preserve quality and drive business success.
We excel at matching candidates to job positions, and resources to client needs. For instance, we go beyond standard litigation-support software and services that automate the processing, organization and indexing of documents. Our approach: Apply best-practice methods, rigorous oversight and global resources to create and manage complete discovery solutions, up to and including subjective document review.
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About David Galbenski, Esq., President and CEO, Lumen Legal
The founder of the company in 1993, Dave has guided development of one of the industry’s most innovative database-driven human resources systems. He has pioneered both domestic and offshore outsourcing solutions for both corporate clients and law firms.
Recent Awards include:
- 2006 Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association President’s Award for extraordinary contributions to the organization
- 2006 “Treasure of Detroit” recognition from Wayne State University Law School
- 2005 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (for Staffing and IT Consulting Services, Central Great Lakes region)
- Crain’s Detroit Business “40 Under 40″ award (2003)
Under Dave’s leadership, Lumen Legal (formerly Contract Counsel) has also been recognized as:
- Three-time recipient of “Metropolitan Detroit’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For” (2003, 2005 and 2006)
- Two-time member of the Inc. 500 which honors the 500 fastest-growing, private companies in the United States (2002 and 2003)
- Four-time recipient of the Future 50 of Greater Detroit award based upon the significant economic impact it has made on the Southeast Michigan region (2000, 2002, 2004 and 2005)
- One of “50 Companies to Watch in Michigan” based upon its entrepreneurial success (2005)
Dave graduated with distinction from the University of Michigan Business School in 1990 and cum laude from Wayne State University Law School in 1993. Prior to founding the company, Dave worked as a commercial litigation attorney in the Detroit law firm of Timmis & Inman.
