Privacy and Security Law Blog

JOE ADDIEGO is a partner in DWT's San Francisco office. His practice focuses on litigation and trial work in the information technology, intellectual property, and trade secrets areas. He has handled matters involving online data breaches and other privacy and security issues.

KRAIG BAKER is a partner in the Seattle office of DWT. He regularly provides counseling and negotiates agreements for clients in all areas of digital media, technology and entertainment, including counseling on privacy and security issues. He has also lectured extensively on privacy and security matters and teaches a class on Digital Media law and policy at the University of Washington.

CHARLENE BROWNLEE is a partner in the Seattle office of DWT. She is the co-author of Privacy Law, a legal treatise published by American Lawyer Media. She regularly provides counseling and negotiates agreements for clients in all areas of privacy, security and information management. She is a member of the Sedona Conference, the ARMA E-discovery Advisory Group, and faculty with West Legalworks’ E-discovery & Records Retention Conference Series.

THOMAS R. BURKE represents clients in online privacy and security matters including online fraud, phishing, and other emerging Internet-related legal issues. He recently obtained an injunction for a client faced with the unauthorized posting of protected health care information and successfully sued the TSA and FBI to obtain access to records regarding the federal government's use of the "no fly" list to screen airline passengers after September 11th. Over the past 15 years he has defended a variety of privacy lawsuits filed against broadcasters and publishers and regularly counsels clients on privacy and security issues. Mr. Burke is a partner in DWT's San Francisco office.

RANDY GAINER is a partner in the Seattle office of DWT. He specializes in litigating disputes regarding computer systems and in advising businesses about data security issues.

BRUCE E. H. JOHNSON is the head of DWT's privacy and security law group. A member of the California and Washington State Bars, he has written and lectured extensively on privacy and security matters, has successfully handled many invasion of privacy cases, and has represented clients in responding to major privacy legislation proposals. Bruce is the co-author of a major national treatise on First Amendment rights of commercial speech.

LANCE KOONCE is a litigator in the New York City office of Davis Wright Tremaine, and regularly represents clients in connection with instances of online fraud, information and identity theft, and in particular security breaches perpetrated by sophisticated online techniques such as phishing and pharming. He recently co-authored the article "Cyber Outlaws: Tracking Spammers, Phishers and Cybersquatters" in the April 18, 2005 edition of the New York Law Journal.

RONALD G. LONDON represents clients on privacy matters before the FCC, FTC, and state and federal courts. He has extensive experience advising companies with respect to federal and state regulations directed toward consumer privacy, including the areas of telemarketing, commercial email and text messaging, and fax advertising. His practice also includes providing counsel on the application of privacy protections such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and related laws.

PETER MUCKLESTONE is a partner in the Seattle office of DWT. He regularly advises banks and other financial service companies in connection with state and federal regulatory matters, including with respect to privacy and security issues.

ANNE SHELBY is based in the Seattle office of DWT, where she counsels clients on privacy, data transmission and data security concerns. Her practice also focuses on licensing and intellectual property matters.

BRIAN WONG assists clients with a broad range of communications issues, including federal and state telecommunications and broadcast regulation, and is the primary contributor to the DWT Telecom Law Blog. Located in the DWT Washington, D.C. office, he also handles a wide variety of federal regulatory issues, with significant export and import work.

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Blackstone, Robert
Burke, Thomas
Cervantez, Tom
Corn-Revere, Bob
Cys, Richard
Driscoll, Robert
Dunwoody, Stuart
Gainer, Randy
Grant, Peter
Halm, K.C.
Hinkley, Gerald
Jenkins, Eric
Jeffry, Thomas
Johnson, Bruce
Koonce, Lance (Editor)
Korrell, Harry
Leishman, Roger
Levy, Seth
London, Ronald
Mucklestone, Peter
Page, Norman
Rawson, Richard
Shook, Lissa
Smith, James M
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