Senior Litigation Paralegal "In 1986, the terms computers and law firms really did not mix," says Dwayne Krager, a litigation paralegal with Foley & Lardner, LLC. "Firms that were using computers saw them as ways to move away from the typewriter. Fortunately, when I began my paralegal career in 1986, I was able to work with a firm where computers were used as a litigation process tool". His former firm, Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, s.c. , a technologically progressive law firm, allowed him to use his litigation paralegal knowledge to develop into an expert on technology and the litigation process.

In addition to the use of litigation software, this knowledge path has lead him down the road of implementing a firm-wide docket system, an in-house imaging center, and one of his greatest achievements, a state-of-the art courtroom called the Trial Science Institute, LLC. In 1998, in addition to his normal litigation paralegal duties, Dwayne assumed the task of designing, building, promoting, and now running one of the first mock courtrooms with three separate deliberation rooms in the United States.

Designed as a model courtroom in Wisconsin, hundreds of lawyers, paralegals, and court staff have toured the Trial Science Institute. The courtroom is currently utilized by attorneys for mock trials, mock appellate arguments and to prepare witnesses for actual trial or mediation. Today, Dwayne utilizes his knowledge of the technology and litigation practice to teach other paralegals on how to use technology in the courtroom and how to use these tools to help make their firms more successful.