About Totality Software, Inc.
Totality Software, Inc. is a privately held corporation located in San Diego, California. The company was originally named Celestial Computing, which was founded by Evan Zucker in 1988. Totality Software was incorporated in California in 1997.
Totality Software's president, Evan Zucker, graduated from Duke Law School in Durham, North Carolina, and practiced law in San Diego from 1980-1982 and 1988-1996, specializing in civil litigation. In the interim, Zucker flew the F-4 Phantom II fighter jet in the United States Air Force, reaching the rank of captain.
While in the Air Force, Zucker wrote his first software program, which later led to the founding of Celestial Computing and Totality Software.
When Zucker returned to the practice of law as an associate attorney in 1988, his practice was primarily commercial litigation, and most of his work was on an hourly fee basis. However, a small portion of his practice consisted of contingency fee collection work. In 1991, Zucker opened his own practice, and he soon found that he needed a computer program to handle his small but growing collection practice.
He bought two of the leading debt collection programs on the market, both of which cost thousands of dollars. Even though Zucker was extremely experienced with computers, he could not figure out how to run the programs. In fact, one of them was so complicated that the developer required new users to spend a full week in Alabama learning how to use their software.
Zucker figured that if he was going to have to spend thousands of dollars on a debt collection program, he would be better off paying a local programmer to write one that did exactly what he wanted, and so that's what he did. When other attorneys saw his program they really liked it and suggested that he sell it. Beginning in November 1995 Zucker began selling Totality (initially under the name Easy Collect) and it has been a full-time business for him ever since.
Totality Software is debt free with no outside shareholders, partners, investors, or venture capital money. That means we are not forced to release software before it is ready for release, merely to make our numbers look good. Instead, we can and do focus all of our attention on satisfying our users.
