Total Attorneys Executive Team
Ed Scanlan, Founder & Chairman
When Ed founded Total Attorneys in 2002, in an apartment in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood, his credentials were already impressive: he had worked for several years in business and product development at three prominent interactive agencies in Chicago; led the development of some of the first non-profit e-commerce applications while at United Way; been invited to present at the World Electronic Commerce Conference in 1999, and had his work highlighted in the Electronic Commerce Report that same year.
Total Attorneys was the natural culmination of Ed’s skills and interests. What began as an online agency and information-technology management firm (called Infra-Strategy) has morphed into the country's leading legal practice management and customer acquisition platform. Today the employees at Total Attorneys service thousands of law firms nationwide. The company was listed on the Inc. 500 list for both 2008 and 2009.
Ed's has been featured in multiple publications including the New York Times, Business Week, Inc., Smart Money, Crain's Chicago Business, and the Chicago Tribune. He was inducted into the Chicagoland Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 2009, was listed in Crain's Chicago Business 40 under 40 in 2009, named Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organizations Young CEO of the Year in 2009 and was a Midwest finalist for the Ernest & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2009.
Ed sits on the board of the Illinois Institute for Entrepreneurship Education, which promotes entrepreneurship as a viable career option in public high schools throughout the state of Illinois. He leads Total Attorneys, in partnership with Kwagala Project, in the funding and creation of the Total Impact House, which provides shelter, education, counseling, and vocational skills to girls victimized by the sex trade in Uganda.