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12 DePaul Bus. & Comm. L.J. 421 (2013-2014)
Preparing and Advising Your Clients on Cloud Usage

handle is hein.journals/depbcl12 and id is 463 raw text is: Preparing and Advising Your Clients on Cloud Usage Janet A. Stiven* DESALINA WILLIAMS: I'm Desalina, and I'm the editor for the Business & Commercial Law Journal. I will be introducing Janet Stiven. She is the vice president and general counsel of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Prior to becoming Moody's vice president and general counsel, for twenty-eight years Ms. Stiven was a member and a business attorney in the Chicago, Illinois office of Dykema Gos- sett, a national firm with more than 350 lawyers. She has advised cli- ents concerning Cloud services agreements, terms of use, Cloud vendor assessments, and Cloud computing policies and related privacy and data security considerations. Please welcome Janet Stiven. JANET STIVEN: Good afternoon. It is my pleasure to be back home at DePaul. As some of you may know, I am an alum of the DePaul College of Law, and it is exciting to be here to talk to you about a topic that I have focused on for a number of years. The issues surrounding Cloud computing have some different dimensions than those presented when we first started using the Internet to provide services. When contracting or provisioning Cloud services, it is impor- tant to think about the big picture. During my twenty-eight years of law firm practice, I gained extensive experience drafting and negotiat- ing contracts. Part of effective contracting requires an understanding of both the contract provision and their context. If you are a lawyer, you have been trained to understand conceptually what the legal pro- visions mean; but if you do not understand the context, you will not be able to effectively review and comment on the agreement. The con- text for reviewing Cloud contracts requires knowledge that Catherine Sanders Reach discussed in her presentation. If you are going to be a lawyer practicing in the Cloud, I suggest you invest some time to learn how the technology works. From my perspective, technology is becoming the platform for busi- ness. Whether you work in a law firm or in a company, technology is linked inextricably to everything we are doing; so you have to under- stand how it works. You need to develop a road map to guide you as you go through the process of provisioning for cloud services. Ini- * Vice President and General Counsel at The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago 421