Dwayne Hermes wins ‘Innovator of the Year’ award. Texas Legal Awards 2022
Dwayne is the Founder of Hermes Law and creator of the Hermes Law Case Architectūra, and the CEO and Co-Founder of the legal and insure tech company, ClaimDeck. He has founded and led two law firms for 22 years that have provided over $200M in litigation services. Dwayne’s gift is to break apart old processes, reducing them to their essential components and redesigning them to be elegant, efficient, and effective.
Hermes Sargent Bates, operating from 2000 to 2015, was the largest native startup firm in the history of Dallas/Fort Worth and was one of the 50 largest firms in Texas. It was the first entirely paperless firm and a leader in the use of technology. During the years of Hermes Sargent Bates, Dwayne begins to develop processes, reports, and analytics for managing and delivering legal services. In 2015 he founded Hermes Law. He formalizes the processes, reports, and analytics into the Hermes Law Case Architectūra (HLCA), a best-in-class client-facing litigation services delivery ecosystem. Dwayne’s innovative focus is broad. Hermes Law is the first defense firm in Texas to go to a fully open space concept (recognized by the space design industry for this effort) and web-based tech equality across its workforce.
The mission of Hermes Law is to “Change how law firms operate and change how legal services are delivered.” A significant advancement in achieving this mission was the founding in 2020 of ClaimDeck. ClaimDeck has tech-enabled the HLCA by making it web-based and enabling clients to deploy this best-in-class litigation delivery platform across all of their law firms and thereby “Change[ing} how law firms operate and how legal services are delivered.” With ClaimDeck, litigation is handled in a uniform, transparent, and data-driven way. The full ClaimDeck suite addresses all aspects of successful litigation services delivery and management. ClaimDeck is innovation at a level previously not achieved in the legal and insure tech space. www.claim-deck.com
Dwayne has used various forums to bring about innovation. In addition to leading innovative law firms for the past 25 years and founding a tech company, he has served as President and Chair of the Litigation Practices Technology committee of The Harmonie Group. www.Harmmonie.org. He has been an active contributor to the thought leadership space. These writings have included a discussion of the impediments to innovation in the legal space, Link the definition of success in the delivery of legal services, Link the need for effective communication between carriers and defense firms and methods for improving those communication practices, Link and, the need for transparency and objective measures regarding attorney performance. Link. Most recently, Dwayne has been writing a series of articles on litigation management's current and future state. Link
Dwayne has been recognized for innovation by one of the leading legal innovators in America, Professor William Henderson. Link Link Link
Innovators have the desire to bring improvement. Successful entrepreneurs make innovation a successful business. Rarely are attorneys both innovative and entrepreneurial. Dwayne is one of those rare attorneys.
Congratulations Dwayne!
