Maintaining Confidentiality of Client Information

Are you getting pressure from

your clients to improve the confidentiality of information in your firm’s

possession?  Have you been asked by your lawyers why their ethical obligations

aren’t enough to satisfy clients?  Have you considered locking down your

document repositories as a response?  Listen to two veteran law firm

technologists discuss their experience with these issues and more.

Scott Christensen

Scott

Christensen is currently a CIO at Large, serving in technology leadership

positions with national and global law firms over the past 25+ years. At

Edwards, Wildman Palmer LLP, Scott served as the Director of Technology (US) and

Information Security. Prior to Edwards, Wildman, he was the IT Director at Bell,

Boyd & Lloyd LLP. He has served in numerous industry volunteer roles

including six years on the Board of Directors for the International Legal

Technology Association (ILTA), and two years as ILTA’s President.  He served on

the planning committee for ILTA’s 2014 and 2015 LegalSec (Information Security)

Summit, and is a member of the Law Firm Information Governance Task Force, an IG

ThinkTank sponsored by Iron Mountain. 

 

He is a frequent speaker at

technology conferences including ILTA, ARMA and ALA on the topics of leadership,

hiring and retaining staff, information governance, information security,

electronic records management, risk management and cloud computing. He enjoys

teaching occasional college courses in the areas of Computer Science and

Business Management. Scott also has experience serving on the Board of Directors

of other non-profit organizations with oversight over finance, personnel and

governance matters. 

Brian Donato

With 28 years of experience

ranging from software developer to process engineer to security officer to IT

director, Brian Donato brings a broad technology and business background to his

current position of CIO at the law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

where he has worked for the last 17 years.  Brian is married with 4 kids and 1

dog, all currently connected to the Internet of Things.