If the key in-house lawyer or outside counsel is from Mars and the essential IT leader is from Venus, then use an interplanetary translator to help develop a litigation-preparedness program.
As with any translator, you might want to use this with caution when dealing with important people -- like potential business clients or fathers-in-law, for example.
James Gosling, the Sun Microsystems engineer who devised Java, has a project called "Jackpot, " aimed at creating a common translator for the many software languages now in use.
They paid a Chinese engineer and a translator to spend three months teaching them how to use the contraption, which is the size of a sport utility vehicle.