On the Mark

For readers unaware, Whitney Adams recently lost her valiant fight with cancer.

Whitney was an industry veteran who once worked for Rogers and Wells and most recently was a co-founder and General Counsel of Cricket Technologies in Reston, VA.  She was an active participant in The Sedona Conference and could be counted on for spirited dialogue.  I’ve posted her Bio from Cricket’s website below. Her passing is a loss to the industry and is quite sad news.

Mark Reichenbach 9/28/07

Whitney Adams, General Counsel and VP of Business Development
Whitney Adams (J.D., George Washington University), had more than 25 years’ experience in complex litigation before joining Cricket’s staff in 2002. Whitney served for six years as an Assistant United States Attorney, where she handled complex criminal and civil litigation. She then served as Assistant General Counsel for Litigation at the SEC and Deputy General Counsel for Litigation at the U.S. CFTC. Beginning in 1987, Whitney practiced as a litigator in her own firm and with major law firms, including four years with Rogers & Wells (now Clifford Chance), where she handled large, complex civil litigation.Author of the popular Cricket e-discovery case index and numerous articles, Whitney serves a member of the Sedona Conference’s Working Groups on Records Management Best Practices and Search Technologies as well as E-Discovery RFP Best Practices. She is a Board Member of the AMLaw Law Journal Newsletters on E-Discovery and Corporate Counselor. Previously she was the first woman Chair of the American Bar Association’s prestigious White Collar Crime Committee, a Vice Chair of the ABA’s Criminal Law Section, and a Barrister of the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court. Whitney also was the first woman Chair of the District of Columbia Federal Court’s lawyer disciplinary committee. Whitney has been a regular commentator on CNBC, MSNBC, and Fox News regarding legal issues, and has served on the Virginia State Treasury Board, the Virginia State Council for Higher Education, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Labor Policy Committee. She co-founded Cricket in 2001

Obituary from The Washington Post

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