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The Enigmatic Posse List

By Ari L. Kaplan
January 29, 2010

About eight years ago, Washington, DC, bankruptcy lawyer Greg Bufithis semi-retired and began participating in large document review projects. After a few, he realized that there was no centralized source for temporary attorneys to learn about these opportunities. Ever the entrepreneur, he created one.

He initially registered a Yahoo! group that grew to about 200 names in a few months and eventually migrated to an independent mailing list originally called “Contract Attorney Job List.” Then one day, Bufithis was reviewing documents and a colleague he did not know approached him and said: “Hey, Kevin at the end of the table sent me and said I should join your posse,” Bufithis recalls. “So a name was born and we created a Web site around The Posse List (www.theposselist.com).”

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