John Tredennick started a focus on legal technology in 1988—back when law firms saw it as something limited to fancy computers and adding machines. He asked Holland & Hart, the Denver-based firm where he was a partner, to add the words chief information officer to his title. Inspiration came from an American Bar Association conference.
“The thing I took out of the conference was one simple line: Leaders step forward; they are not selected,” says Tredennick, a Legal Rebels Trailblazer. Technology, he told Holland & Hart, could be used strategically in litigation.