Data Privacy
Attorney, electrical engineer and Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) serving as a creative legal strategist advising high-tech clients on everything from product development to contracts, marketing, licensing, regulatory compliance, data privacy, Intellectual Property (“IP”) protection, litigation and corporate restructuring. A decade of experience in counseling large global brands by distilling complex legal and technical jargon down to understandable concepts and working cross-functionally with legal, business, marketing, engineering and financial stakeholders to align their legal strategy with business objectives.
Representative EXPERIENCE
Data Privacy:
Data Privacy: Performed data inventory analysis, data mapping and privacy audit for client. Educated client regarding various differing state data privacy law. Advised client regarding best practices for compliance with the national patch-work of state data privacy regulations.
Data Security: Performed data security audit for client having a database of customer data. Educated client regarding various security and data breach laws. Advised client regarding best practices for compliance with data security and breach regulations.
Cross Border Data: Counseled German client regarding the export of company data to a U.S. corporate affiliate.
Financial Data Use: Educated and counseled client regarding the processing of customer credit cards and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and the applicability of Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act’s red flag rules if the client were to issue a credit card.
Licensing and Data: Negotiated license agreement on behalf of client, taking into account data inventory, use and security, and drafted provisions to protect security and integrity of same.
Employment: Counseled client regarding employee’s privacy expectations in the workplace. Counseled client regarding how to handle data risks during employee departures.
Litigation Privacy: Defended client in federal district court litigation. Drafted protective order to protect the privacy of sensitive client information, developed and implemented procedures to file private information under seal or in redacted form, and reconciled German privacy and export laws with American discovery rules.
Corporate Restructuring and Data: Represented client in the acquisition of a technology company, taking into account customer data and how to maintain the privacy and security of the same during and after restructuring.
Honors
SuperLawyers, New York Metro Rising Star (2015 - 2019)
Cardozo Writing Award
Bar admissions
NY State Bar (2010)
Patent Bar (2010)
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2012)
Certifications
Certified Information Privacy Professional/US, IAPP (2019)
Education
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Juris Doctor
Columbia University, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
Yeshiva University, Bachelor of Arts
Publications
Adapting to Innovation: 3D Printing: New Legal Issues Emerge with the Technology's Revolutionary Potential
PTAB Monitor: Winning It on Appeal: How to Avoid Remand and Reverse the Board’s Validity Determination at the Federal Circuit
IP Magazine: Are USPTO-promulgated trial rules reliable?
Law360: Fed. Circ. Slams PTAB For Not Explaining Why It Axed Patent (quoted)
Law360: Merck Ruling A Wake-Up Call For Patent Owners Facing PTAB (quoted)
Law360: Is Broadest Reasonable Interpretation Here To Stay?
Law360: Get Ready For Fed. Circ. Guidance On AIA Trials
TechCrunch: Sued As A Young Startup? Don’t Surrender
InsideCounsel: How a Fractured Federal Circuit is Applying the Supreme Court’s Alice Decision to Software Patents
Emerging Trends: Has the Supreme Court Lowered the Bar for Software Patent Eligibility Challenges?
Emerging Trends/US Supreme Court: Is Software Patentability in Peril?
NYLJ: Return of Preemption Doctrine in Determining Patent Eligibility