Dave Galbenski founded
Lumen Legal, a groundbreaking legal staffing and consulting company
in 1993.
As former CEO, Dave has collaborated with corporations and law firms of all sizes to design
strategies to create cost and process efficiencies in the legal-service delivery model.
A pioneer in both the domestic and offshore outsourcing industries, Dave won the
prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2005, and Lumen Legal won the Inc. 500 award twice - in 2002 and 2003. From 2008 to 2009, he
served as Chairman of the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO), a global organization of
7,000 entrepreneurs in thirty-eight countries. Dave's industry and entrepreneurial
insights have been gleaned from meetings with entrepreneurs, lawyers, and governmental
officials around the world. Dave is proud of developing an employee-centric
culture at
Lumen that embraces innovation. As a result,
Lumen has consistently
been recognized as one of the best companies to work for in Michigan over the
past several years.
Dave and his company have been featured in
The Wall Street
Journal, Entrepreneur, Business Week, Law Practice Today, Journal of Legal Marketing,
Crain's Detroit Business, LPO Watch, National Law Journal, Legal Management, and
Small Firm Business.