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Black Hills IP Cuts Ribbon on New Facility

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 4, 2012

Rapid City, South Dakota. – Black Hills IP, a provider of IP paralegal services, docketing services, and trademark services, celebrated the opening of its new Rapid City facility at the former Northrop Grumman engineering campus.

Black Hills IP provides paralegal, docketing and other services to 36 of the nation’s most sophisticated intellectual property law firms and in-house legal departments. Black Hills IP has offices in Rapid City, South Dakota and Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Black Hills IP Hires Cheryl Classen as Trademark Paralegal Manager

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 22, 2012

Rapid City, South Dakota. – Black Hills IP, a provider of IP paralegal, docketing, and trademark services, announces today that Cheryl Classen has been hired as its Manager of Trademark Paralegal Services. Ms. Classen has over 20 years of experience as a senior trademark paralegal with two major Minneapolis law firms, she created the trademark paralegal program and training regime for Intellevate (now CPA Global), and has been a committee chair and member of the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Paralegal Association (MPA).

Black Hills IP Expands - Announces Two New Facilities

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 11, 2012

Minneapolis, Minn. – Black Hills IP, LLC announce today that it has added two new facilities; a service center in Rapid City South Dakota and a combination training, service and administration facility in Minneapolis, MN. Black Hills IP provides paralegal services and docketing services to intellectual property law firms and in-house legal departments. Its unprecedented growth is part of the national trend of firms moving their legal support services back to the US from India.

According to Ann McCrackin, Black Hills President, “we have been impressed with the demand for our services and are responding by investing in new service centers in Rapid City, South Dakota and Minneapolis.” The Rapid City service center is the former Northrop Grumman engineering campus and is located at 1241 Concourse Drive. Black Hills IP will move 30 of its employees into that facility January 20, 2012 and plans to add another 25 employees over the next year. The Minneapolis facility is located at Suite 800 of the TCF Tower and will be operational on January 16, 2012 with approximately 10 relocated employees.

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Rapid City Journal: Paralegal firm brings jobs back from India

January 21, 2012:

Two Rapid City paralegal programs could benefit from the growth of a local firm that is adding legal support services jobs that were previously outsourced to India.

Black Hills IP, LLC, which provides paralegal and other support services to patent and trademark attorneys, has said that it will expand by 25 employees in 2012. It is moving its 30-member workforce to a new service center in the former Northrup Grumman building on Concourse Drive.

The firm began with six employees in September 2010 in Rapid City. Among other things, it provides docketing services to large intellectual property law firms and the in-house legal departments of major U.S. corporations and helps them prepare documents for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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Minneapolis Star Tribune: Black Hills paralegal firm is growing

January 13, 2012:

A Minneapolis-based paralegal company is opening a new training facility here and beefing up its Rapid City operation to meet the growing demands of law firms that specialize in the field of intellectual property.

Black Hills IP plans to open the downtown Minneapolis office next week and expand its office of 30 in South Dakota by 25 employees over the next year.

The reason for Black Hills' growth? A trend among patent firms to sever their offshore outsourcing arrangements, particularly in India, said Chairman Leon Steinberg.

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Pioneer Press: Black Hills paralegal firm opens Minneapolis office

January 13, 2012:

Black Hills IP, a paralegal outsourcing firm, is opening an office in Minneapolis as it takes on more work from intellectual property law firms and corporate legal departments.

The company recently added two new facilities: a service center in Rapid City, S.D., where it is based, and a combination training, service and administration office in the TCF Tower in downtown Minneapolis.

This week alone, the outsourcing firm added four new clients, said Leon Steinberg, chairman of Black Hills.

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