Corporate legal and IT departments may share the same building, or perhaps even the same floor, but they are separated by an ocean of hyper-specific jargon, processes and approaches that could make prepping for a crisis—or navigating an increasingly complex field of global and domestic privacy laws—very difficult. As a result of the mounting jeopardy, legal departments may be looking to either hire or train competent intermediaries that can act as a bridge between two worlds situated just a few cubicles apart.  

Take technology guidelines. Microsoft tells its IT developers that the technology needs to meet certain specifications to be effective. IT then communicates those specifications to the legal department, which in turn comes back with a long list of privacy guidelines that need to be taken into account before any data runs through the solution.