Welcome to Waters Edge.
Waters Edge is committed to delivering authoritative training and
knowledge assets to enable lawyers, legal and information professionals
to better evaluate and improve the trustworthiness of digital
information assets.
We focus passionately on delivering training, assessment and design
tools that enable you to evaluate, build, and defend how digital
information is created and managed. We also enable intensive, vigorous
assessments to determine the authenticity and reliability of electronic
information as evidence.
Our products and services—training, publications, research and
advisory consulting—reflect our commitment to developing
rule-based design and evaluation tools that make a difference.
Explore. Discover. Learn. Invite us to help you navigate the challenges of digital information.
Publications
E-Discovery Live Training Courses
Waters Edge trains lawyers and companies navigating the changing, dynamic rules that govern digital information.
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- CastleQuest Discovery Library publishes New Book for Solo Lawyers
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- CastleQuest Discovery Library Publishes First Book
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- Waters Edge New Blog Published
Our blog now includes news of our latest programs, presentations, articles and webcasts, as well as occasional essays on leading issues of the day. Come visit “Discovery @ Waters Edge,”
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- SANSFIRE 2008 features Waters Edge
SANSFIRE 2008 will feature a one-day program on July 23, 2008 presented by Jeffrey Ritter on “Surviving E-Discovery: Managing Digital Information as Evidence”. For more information, click here.
- Echelon One Selects Waters Edge
Echelon One, a leading information security research company, selected Waters Edge to produce Survival Strategies under New Court Rules for Electronic Evidence. This executive research note was written by Jeffrey Ritter, and will be distributed to Echelon One’s private subscribers, executives in some of the world’s largest companies, investment houses and technology institutions.
- Waters Edge Training Law Firms
Waters Edge has now begun to deliver intensive, hands-on training in the practice skills required for electronic discovery to some of the world’s leading law firms. “We have been pleased that our training programs are being purchased both for lawyers and for non-legal IT and litigation support teams within law firms,” stated Jeffrey Ritter, CEO of Waters Edge. For a summary catalog of the full Waters Edge catalog for law firms, click here.
- ISC(2) Selects Waters Edge for Web Access Management e-Symposium
Waters Edge is pleased to announce that ISC(2) has invited Jeffrey Ritter, CEO of Waters Edge, to moderate their e-Symposium on Web Access Management on March 18, 2008.. This international web-based program presents an in-depth three hour examination of the latest issues in web access management, including a detailed study of the Liberty Alliance Project.
- ACC Publishes Waters Edge “Top Ten”
Waters Edge is pleased to announce the publication by the Association of Corporate Counsel of an article authored by Jeffrey Ritter, CEO of Waters Edge. The article was commissioned by ACC from ARMA International, which nominated Jeffrey Ritter to prepare the work as a result of his knowledge and experience in the intersections of law, information management and technology. Click here for the article.
- ISACA Selects Ritter to Moderate e-Symposium on Application Security
Waters Edge is pleased to announce that ISACA has invited Jeffrey Ritter, CEO of Waters Edge, to moderate their e-Symposium on Application Security on February 26, 2008. This international web-based program presents an in-depth three hour examination of the latest issues in application security, featuring some of the leading thinking and innovations.
- ARMA International Chapter Presentation
Jeffrey Ritter, CEO of Waters Edge, will be participating in the Greater Washington DC ARMA International chapter conference scheduled for March 19, 2008. Jeffrey will be speaking on how records professionals can use visual collaboration tools to provide leadership within complex information management projects. For more information, go to www.gwdcarma.org.
- ARMA International Public Policy Advisory Group
ARMA International has announced the appointment of Jeffrey Ritter, CEO of Waters Edge, to serve on the ARMA International Public Policy Advisory Group. The Advisory Group focuses on the critical public policy issues involving records and information management on a global basis and assists ARMA develop policy positions and advocacy. For more information, see www.arma.org.
- Waters Edge Announces Law Firm Training Services
On February 1, 2008, Waters Edge announced the release of a complete catalog of intensive, hands-on training workshops designed to train practicing lawyers how to better manage complex, adversarial aspects of electronic discovery. Jeffrey Ritter, CEO, explained, “Our training services respond to the demand of corporate law departments for their outside counsel to be trained for the job, and stop learning on their nickel.” The programs are fully developed, offering training to senior lawyers, associates and summer associates. For more information, contact Jeffrey Ritter at jeffrey@wec-llc.com.
- Professional Development Quarterly
The February 2008 Professional Development Quarterly features a lead article by Jeffrey Ritter, “Discovering the Horizon: A Case Study of Learning Innovation in Progress.” The article examines how to use map-based visual learning to teach lawyers and legal professionals how to better understand the intersection of law and technology issues confronting their clients. A copy of the article is available here.
- BNA Announces National Webinar on October 29, 2007
BNA has announced a national webinar “The Shifting Balances in Legal Services: How the New E-Discovery Rules are Changing Everything” to be held on October 29, 2007. This program will focus on how e-discovery is transforming the client-law firm relationship and the changes law firms are implementing in response. The program will include a discussion on how Waters Edge’s book on Evaluating Outside Law Firms has affecting corporate selection of outside counsel.
Register here.
- Ritter to Address InfraGard National Capital Members Alliance on November 28, 2007
Jeffrey Ritter will be presenting to this important InfraGard members meeting discussing the intersection of security with legal risk, trusted information, and the rules of evidence.
Register here.
- NCC-AIIM October Presentation on Proving the Truth
The National Capitol Chapter of AIIM October 11, 2007 meeting will feature Jeffrey Ritter on “Proving the Truth: Managing Electronic Records as Evidence”. This inaugural program will present an integrated framework through which to better manage the legal value of electronic information as evidence.
Register here.
- ISC2 Selects Waters Edge to Moderate Identity Management Seminar
Waters Edge is pleased to announce that ISC2 invited Jeffrey Ritter, CEO of Waters Edge Consulting, to moderate their eSymposium on Identity Management on August 21, 2007. This international web-based program is presented by CA, and features some of the leading thinking on implementing identity management in enterprises and organizations. ISC2 members can register here.
- Ritter to Present at BSi Webinar
On Tuesday, August 7, 2007, Waters Edge and BSi Management will be presenting an online webinar on Proving the Truth with Electronic Records: Finding New Value in the Courtroom, beginning at 1:00 pm EDT.
Register here.
- Contracting for Information Security
The Internet Security Alliance (www.isalliance.org) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) announce the publication of a new book authored by Jeffrey Ritter of Waters Edge Consulting. Contracting for Information Security, Part II delivers vital model contract language for implementing certified information security management systems between service partners. To buy now, click here.
- E-Discovery for Information Security Professionals
During April, 2007, the Internet Security Alliance sponsored a series of three one hour, content-rich webinars by Waters Edge Consulting on electronic discovery (e-discovery):
Survival Strategies for Information Security Professionals
Evaluating the Information Security of Outside Law Firms
Evaluating Records Hold Programs.
The full audio broadcasts may be accessed by contacting info@wec-llc.com
- Understanding Records Management: Best Practices Seminar
The District of Columbia Bar Corporate Counsel Committee has invited Jeffrey Ritter to speak on June 14, 2007 on “Understanding Records Management: Best Practices for Achieving A Defensible Standard of Care”. The two-hour program will focus on the resources required for lawyers to fully understand this aspect of enteprise governance and how to design an effective program.
- Surviving as a Records Manager Under the New Federal Rules
As part of the Waters Edge Community, Waters Edge has recently posted a rich-media presentation by Jeffrey Ritter that is an executive summary of his address to the Washington DC ARMA Chapter on October 18, 2006 on “Working with Outside Law Firms: Surviving as a Records Manager Under the New Federal Rules”. This presentation is available for free by clicking here.
- Waters Edge Publishes Evaluating the
Electronic Discovery Capabilities of Outside Law Firms: A Model
Request for Information and Analysis
Waters Edge Consulting and Pike & Fischer announce the publication of Evaluating the Electronic Discovery Capabilities of Outside Law Firms: A Model Request for Information and Analysis. Co-authored by Jeffrey Ritter and Karen Worstell, this publication provides authoritative guidance to companies and law firms on the services required to assure that a company’s electronic records are properly managed by outside law firms. For more information, click here.
- Waters Edge is an approved Associate Consultancy under the procedures and methodology of BSI Americas
for implementation and pre-certification of Information Security Management Systems under ISO/IEC 27001 and IT Service Management Systems under ISO/IEC 20000. For more information on these Management Systems and others,please see Our Services and www.BSIAmericas.com
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