Software company helps find smoking guns.

PositionMid-Market FAST 40

As a developer of database-organizational software, Technology Concepts & Design Inc. has for 20 years brought order to chaos--and to the court. The Greensboro-based company, founded in 1988 by Bill Johnson, president and CEO, and Jerry Eatherly, executive vice president, got its start by creating large databases and software for federal agencies. It's still in that business, counting the U.S. Department of State and Department of Commerce among its clients.

But TCDI found its niche in 1991, when it was based in Winston-Salem. That's when a tobacco company hired it to help manage legal data brought on by massive anti-tobacco lawsuits, says Tom MacKenzie, vice president of marketing. TCDI created case-management software that the tobacco company and others like it could use to manage their caseloads.

The business grew. By the late 1990s, electronic discovery was catching on. E-discovery is a process in which a defendant searches his records for documents sought by the plaintiff, including email and other digital material the plaintiff thinks could help build a case. TCDI developed software that reviews electronic documents and determines whether they need to be turned over to the court.

ClarVergence, the company's flagship e-discovery product, was...

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