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MARCH 23, 2021
Baer Reed’s Founder & CEO Catherine B. Tyler has been selected as one of the ‘30 Best Leaders to Watch 2021’ by The Silicon Review. This publication is a business magazine and source of news and information for global business leaders, decision makers, and professionals.
Ms. Tyler says, “To be recognized for our team’s hard work, and most importantly for the successful results we have continued to provide to our clients over this unprecedented year, makes me extremely proud.”
Tyler founded Baer Reed in early 2011 and has been working diligently to grow and expand the company. She was featured in an article highlighting her success as an entrepreneur and business owner. She sat down with The Silicon Review to discuss her experience as the leader of a woman-owned business enterprise (WBE) in the business and legal support services industry.
Here is a excerpt from the article:
Catherine B. Tyler, founder, serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Baer Reed, which serves a variety of Fortune 100 organizations and Am Law 100 firms. She graduated cum laude from Georgetown University and received her law degree, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center. Following law school, Ms. Tyler worked in the Washington, D.C. office of Winston & Strawn LLP.
In 2007, Ms. Tyler moved to the San Francisco office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. It was there that she got the idea to start a legal support company. So, she left Gibson Dunn in 2010 to found Baer Reed.
What motivated you to focus on both legal and transformation aspects of business, at once?
The timing was the perfect opportunity between my own professional career as a lawyer at a top U.S. firm and identifying this need. I saw over and over that clients wanted to maintain their U.S. law firms for high-level strategy and also wanted to complement that firm with high-quality lower-cost legal support from a company like Baer Reed.
Providing high-quality support services needs extremely dedicated and talented individuals. How did you manage to form your dream team?
I was first drawn to the Philippines because of their notoriously difficult law school and bar exam.
Graduates of Philippine law schools earn a professional degree like their U.S. counterparts — attending a four-year graduate law school after completing their undergraduate degree. Graduates of Philippine law schools must be fluent in and have a superior understanding of the English language, because laws in the Philippines are largely written in English.
After finishing law school, Philippines attorneys must take a bar examination. The bar exam is a four-day exam given in English similar to the U.S. bar exam. And in fact, the current exam is a mix of legal writing and multiple-choice questions based on the NY bar exam. It is so tough that typically only about 25 percent of the takers pass the bar.
Read the full article at The Silicon Review.
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Mr. Reyes graduated with honors from the Ateneo de Manila University, where he received the Procter and Gamble Student Excellence Award. He obtained his Juris Doctor degree from the Ateneo de Manila School of Law. During law school, Mr. Reyes was part of the Philippine delegation to the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot held in Vienna, Austria. He was also a member of the Ateneo Society of International Law and the St. Thomas More Debate Society. He completed his internship at the Public Attorney’s Office. He wrote a thesis entitled: “To Kill A White Elephant: An Analysis of the Fiduciary Exception to the Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege”. Mr. Reyes is admitted to practice law in the Philippines and the State of New York.
Ms. Lardizabal-Manzano is a graduate of San Sebastian College-Recoletos, where she earned her B.A. in Political Science. In 2003, she received her law degree from Lyceum of the Philippines and was admitted to practice law in 2004.
Matthew Hersh earned a B.A. in Political Science from Columbia University in 1990 and graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 1999. He also holds a master’s degree in international relations from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
Cap. Avi Levak (Res. IDF) graduated from from Israel’s prestigious Ben-Gurion University of the Negev with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics. He is also a Leadership and Communication coach trained in TuT coaching by Alon gal in Israel. Avi specializes in high-level, in-depth analysis of business and client needs, within systems and software strategy and architecture.
Ms. Tyler graduated cum laude from Georgetown University and received her law degree, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center. During law school, she interned at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. She also worked on The Tax Lawyer journal and was a member of the award-winning Barristers’ Council Mock Trial Team. Ms. Tyler is admitted to practice law in the State of California and the District of Columbia.
Ms. Cruz-Anonuevo graduated cum laude and top nine in her batch from Miriam College with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in InternationalStudies. She obtained her Juris Doctor degree from Ateneo de Manila University School of Law in Rockwell. During law school, she interned in Rivera, Santos, Maranan & Associates. She was also part of Ateneo’s Labor Law Bar Operations. She wrote her thesis on, “Stealing Privacy: Limitations on Media’s Photographic Invasion.,” Ms. Cruz-Anonuevo is admitted to practice law in the Philippines.
Ms. Aquino-Batallones obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Development Studies (with Minors in Global Politics and Hispanic Studies) from the Ateneo de Manila University. In 2011, she received her Juris Doctor degree from Ateneo de Manila University School of Law. During law school, she interned at Romulo Mabanta Buenaventura Sayoc & de los Angeles then became an intern of Ateneo Legal Services Center’s Clinical Legal Education Program.
Mr. De Guzman graduated from San Beda College with a degree of Bachelor of Arts Major in Economics and received his law degree from San Beda College of Law. He is multilingual and is fluent in three languages: Chinese, Filipino, and English. He was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 2003.