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Avenue West Waterloo, ON,
Canada N2L 3G1 * *
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Street, Apt. 1A New York,
NY 10075 maura@mauragrossman.com |
MAURA R. GROSSMAN Effective June
2016, Maura R. Grossman will be a Research Professor in the David R. Cheriton
School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada,
as well as an eDiscovery attorney and consultant in New York City. Prior to that date, Maura is Of Counsel at
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, in New York, where for 16½ years, she 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, and advised lawyers and
clients on legal, technical, and strategic issues involving eDiscovery and
information governance, both domestically and abroad. Maura is a well-known
and influential eDiscovery lawyer. She
is described in Who’s Who 2015
E-Discovery Analysis as “‘sensational’ according to her peers and . . . a
‘go-to’ in the area.” Chambers & Partners USA 2015
Litigation: E-Discovery describes
her as “the best-known person in the area of technology-assisted review; a
superstar among superstars.” Maura’s
scholarly work on TAR, most notably, Technology-Assisted
Review in E-Discovery Can Be More Effective and More Efficient Than
Exhaustive Manual Review, published in the Richmond Journal of Law and Technology in 2011, has been widely
cited in case law, both in the U.S. and abroad. Her longstanding contributions to
eDiscovery technology and process, including her multiple patents relating to
TAR, were featured in the February 2016 issue of The American Lawyer. Since 2010,
Maura has served as co-chair of the eDiscovery Working Group advising the New
York State Unified Court System. She
has served as a court-appointed special master, neutral/mediator, and eDiscovery
expert to the court in multiple high-profile federal cases. She has provided eDiscovery training to
federal and state court judges, by invitation of the court, and has
testified, on several occasions, before the Advisory Committee on the Federal
Rules of Civil Procedure and the Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules, at
their invitation. Maura is an adjunct
professor at Columbia Law School and the Georgetown University Law Center,
where she teaches courses on eDiscovery.
She previously taught at Rutgers Law School–Newark and Pace Law
School. Since 2012, Maura
has been a member of the Steering Committee of The Sedona Conference®
Working Group 1 on Best Practices for Electronic Document Retention and
Production. Since 2008, she has been
involved in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Text
Retrieval Conference (“TREC”); in 2010 and 2011, as a coordinator of the
Legal Track, and since 2015, as a coordinator of the Total Recall Track. Maura serves on the Advisory Boards of
Bloomberg BNA’s Digital Discovery &
e-Evidence Report, the
Georgetown University Law Center’s Advanced eDiscovery Institute, and the Benjamin
N. Cardozo School of Law’s Cardozo Data Law Initiative. |
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Maura graduated
with an A.B., magna cum laude, from
Brown University. She earned M.A. and
Ph.D. degrees in Clinical/School Psychology from the Gordon F. Derner
Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at 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. |
