Maura R. Grossman joined Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz as an associate in the Litigation Department in 1999, and was appointed Counsel in 2007. Ms. Grossman has represented Fortune 100 companies and major financial services institutions in corporate and securities litigation, including civil actions and white collar criminal and regulatory investigations. She currently focuses her practice on advising lawyers and clients on legal, technical, and strategic issues involving electronic discovery and information management, both domestically and abroad, as well as on matters of legal ethics.
Ms. Grossman speaks and writes frequently on electronic discovery and legal ethics. She is a member of The Sedona Conference® Working Groups on Best Practices for Electronic Document Retention and Production, and on International Electronic Information Management, Discovery, and Disclosure. She assisted in drafting and editing The Sedona Conference® Commentary on Achieving Quality in the E-Discovery Process (May 2009 Public Comment Version), and also serves on the Advisory Board of BNA’s Digital Discovery & e-Evidence Report, as well as the Georgetown Law E-Discovery Advisory Board. Ms. Grossman is involved in various initiatives to provide training on electronic discovery to state court judges and court-appointed special masters and mediators. She also is a coordinator of the 2010 Legal Track of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Text REtrieval Conference ("TREC"), a joint government/industry/academic research project studying the application of automated information retrieval technologies to the growing challenge of e-discovery.
Ms. Grossman graduated with an A.B., magna cum laude, from Brown University. She received an M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical/School Psychology from Adelphi University, and a J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from the Georgetown University Law Center. While at Georgetown, Ms. Grossman served as Executive Notes and Comments Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.
Ms. Grossman is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and has served on its Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics, as well as a member of the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. |