The privacy project.

In 2001, Joan Irick submitted a proposal for consideration to the IADC Executive Committee concerning a new project for the Institute of the IADC Foundation. The proposal was accepted immediately by the Executive Committee as an important emerging area of law that warranted further inquiry. The IADC Foundation Board agreed, and the idea grew into the Privacy Project.

The IADC Foundation turned to Board Member George S. Hodges, who agreed to chair an editorial team that would bring the Privacy Project from concept into a form that would benefit the IADC membership and legal community. Joining him were Joseph W. Ryan Jr. and Jerome A. Galante.

A plan was implemented to research and organize every conceivable legal topic dealing with privacy. Once the list was complete, a plan developed to create a series of scholarly white papers on each privacy topic. Authors from within the IADC ranks were chosen. Each agreed to submit a paper on a specified area of privacy within a very strict timetable. Commitment to a specific topic, submission of initial outlines, drafts and final drafts were carefully coordinated during countless telephone conferences and e-mails among the editorial board, authors and IADC staff.

The goal was to have publishable material in the hands of Richard B. Allen, Managing Editor of Defense Counsel Journal, for publication in the January 2003 issue...