Living well is the best revenge. No one personifies that better than Abtin Buergari, founder and CEO of Washington, D.C., startup, Modus eDiscovery. This is the fantastic rags-to-riches story of a man who grew up in poverty and was working himself through law school until his ideas for doing his job better got him fired — and sued — by his employer.
Buergari was working as a paralegal while attending law school when he was recruited by a company that does what’s known as “electronic discovery” or “eDiscovery.” He was working on a Hurricane Katrina lawsuit for a customer. The customer, an attorney, requested Buergari uncover documents as quickly and as cost-effectively as possible. Buergari had some ideas for using technology to sift through documents faster and cheaper and asked his bosses if he could try those ideas.
They shushed him…
