The Intersection of Law and Technology

 

K. Krasnow Waterman has had dual careers in technology management and the practice of law.  She worked as a Chief Information Officer, Chief Operations executive, and Attorney (in-house advisor and trial counsel).  With such diversity of experience, K understands exactly what business leaders strive to achieve, what regulation and risk mitigation require them to do, and what technology can and can't do to help.  She has provided strategic and tactical leadership for an array of enterprise and web-scale infrastructure challenges for business process, security, and privacy including architecture, identity management/access control/privilege management, information retrieval, and technology policy.  She now divides her time between private consulting and new web technology at MIT's Computer Science lab.   She combines her experience to produce creative, practical, and cost-effective strategies and has the attention to detail necessary to ensure tactical success.  

LawTech Blog

Cross-border eDiscovery is a hot topic this year. The decreased cost of storage has resulted in nearly everyone retaining massively greater quantities of information. Email and the Web have driven a shift in data to less formal, less structured records and files. And, globalization of business has caused the relevant information for an increasing number of lawsuits to be spread among multiple countries. Courts have instituted new rules for how parites will engage in discovery related to this digital evidence. And, these new rules are putting some lawyers in the cross-hairs of other governmental digital control activities. Lawyers, by and large, are not technologists and the challenges arising from handling this mass of distributed data are proving daunting. Technology vendors are offering significant assistance but still more is required. Discovery, at its simplest, is the concept that one party to a lawsuit can learn what the opposing party knows that is relevant to the resolution...Read More