(Portland) CISSP, CEO, Chief Legal Technologist at EDRM

"Mary is the CEO and chief legal technologist for EDRM. She is frequently sought out by media for comment on industry issues, and by conference organizers to participate, moderate a panel, lead a workshop or deliver a keynote. Mary has spoken at global venues including The Tokyo Summit, Relativity Fest London and Chicago, LegalTech NYC, New York State Bar International Law Committee, Gartner Symposium, the American Bar Association International Law Committee, and others. Mary is one of the ABA’s 2020 Legal Technology Resource Center’s (LTRC) 2020 Women of Legal Tech and the author of A Process of Illumination: The Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery, considered by many to be the first popular book on e-discovery. For ten years, she co-edited the Thomson Reuters West Treatise: eDiscovery for Corporate Counsel. Mary was also honored to be included in the book, 100 Fascinating Females Fighting Cyber Crime published by Cyber Ventures in May 2019.

Before eDiscovery, Mary worked as a systems administrator and data processing manager and created two businesses working with enterprise IT and applications. She received her bachelor’s degree from Le Moyne College, her Juris Doctor from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and she holds the CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)."