Troutman Sanders LLP announced that Chris Haley, Legal Technology Director of eMerge, a wholly owned subsidiary focused on providing legal and technical solutions to provide matter-specific solutions for the management of electronically stored information in legal matters, has been recognized by the International Legal Technology Association with a 2016 Distinguished Peer Award for outstanding achievements in the category “Litigation Support Professional of the Year”.

Haley oversees eMerge’s technology team, infrastructure and services spanning the entire EDRM including data identification, preservation, collection, filtering, processing, data hosting, managed review, production, presentation services and custom application development. He has been with the firm for over six years.

“Winning this award was a great honor, especially considering the quality of the other nominees and finalists,” said Haley. “However, this individual award would not be possible without the incredible team that we have here at Troutman Sanders and eMerge. I view this award as recognition of the team’s tremendous accomplishments.”

“The ILTA program recognizes those who have delivered great business value and transformational impact through their innovations and implementations in specific areas of focus for their organizations,” said Alison Grounds, Troutman Sanders, Managing Director of eMerge. “Chris delivers these fundamentals in his work every day. We are proud to have him on the team and congratulate him on his award.”

Within ILTA’s member community, the awards recognize outstanding achievements in organizational and individual excellence and our vendors are recognized for superior achievements in innovation and thought-leadership.

Recipients were presented their awards during the annual award ceremony on August 30 in conjunction with ILTA’s annual educational conference, ILTACON 2016, held in National Harbor, MD.

“On behalf of ILTA, I congratulate this year’s Distinguished Peer Award winners,” said Randi Mayes, executive director of ILTA. “We are proud to recognize exceptional technology projects, the champions of those projects and exceptional innovation and leadership. I applaud and celebrate our winners for sharing their successes.”