Maura R. Grossman

(E-Discovery)

A.B. Brown University
M.A. Adelphi University
Ph.D. Adelphi University
J.D. Georgetown University Law Center.

Ms. Grossman is Counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where she advises the firm and its clients on legal, technical and strategic issues involving electronic discovery and information management, both in the U.S. and abroad. She has represented Fortune 100 companies and major financial services institutions in corporate and securities litigation, including both civil actions and white-collar criminal and regulatory investigations. Ms. Grossman was appointed by the Chief Administrative Judge to serve as co-chair of the E-Discovery Working Group advising the New York State Unified Court System, and is involved in other initiatives to provide education on e-discovery to federal and state court judges, and to court-appointed mediators and special masters. Ms. Grossman also is a coordinator of the 2010 Legal Track of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Text Retrieval Conference ("TREC"), a joint govern-ment/industry/academic research project studying the application of automated information re-trieval technologies to e-discovery, and an adjunct professor at both the Rutgers School of Law Newark and Pace Law School, where she teaches courses on e-discovery. She also is a member of The Sedona Conference® Working Groups on Electronic Document Retention and Produc-tion ("WG1"), and on International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure ("WG6"). Ms. Grossman assisted in editing The Sedona Conference® Commentary on Achieving Quality in E-Discovery (May 2009), and serves on the Advisory Boards of BNA's Digital Discovery and E-Evidence Report, as well as the Georgetown University Law Center's Advanced E-Discovery Institute.