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Boutique law firm providing specialized outside general counsel with a focus on privacy, technology, and strategic business operations across various industries from SaaS providers to content distribution platforms to AI visionaries.• Legal and Strategic Guidance: Offer expert counsel to C-suite executives and large enterprises with a focus on strategic integration of AI and evolving technologies to enhance operational efficiency and innovation.• Privacy and Compliance Strategy: Acts as lead counsel on privacy compliance for global clients, addressing GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, COPPA, TCPA, and HIPAA. Draft, negotiate, and review Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) and other global privacy regulations and include consultation on the US Data Privacy Framework. Advise on implementing Privacy by Design and Privacy by Default principles in product and service development. Conduct Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) and Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) to evaluate and mitigate privacy risks. Provide training to C-suite executives and teams on privacy compliance and data governance, including product development, marketing, and sales. Manage internal audits of privacy protocols to match regulations. Develop and enforce incident response plans to manage data breaches, and ensure timely notifications to affected individuals and regulators.• Cross-Functional Counseling: Provide legal and regulatory guidance to business units, including sales, marketing, finance, product, legal, and engineering teams, on identifying and addressing issues related to data governance and AI-driven products and services.• Technology and Licensing Models: Design and implement robust business and licensing models for technology platforms, including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Oversee the design, deployment, and management of Master Service Agreement (MSA) frameworks, handle the licensing and acquisition of data, and optimize AI integration across the company’s digital footprint.

Los Angeles, Us

Family Office and C-Suite Advisory: Advise C-Suite executives in family office and larger enterprises on global privacy strategies, ensuring compliance with regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, PIPEDA, PIPL, COPPA, HIPAA and TCPA all as applicable. Privacy and Data Security: • Provide comprehensive privacy and data security counseling, including developing privacy programs for clients in AI-driven and data-intensive sectors. • Collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure compliance with privacy regulations in the development and deployment of AI and data science models. • Draft and revise privacy disclosures, consent forms, data processing agreements, and contractual provisions for domestic and global clients.AI Driven Innovation: Drive innovation by integrating personal AI development and deployment into privacy frameworks empowering clients to harness the full potential of AI technologies while maintaining ethical and legal standards.

Culver City, California, Us

Responsible for creating and maintaining new deal structures with and between clients and brand partners. Serve as the company’s primary IP steward. Develop new revenue models merging brand messages, consumer desires, and original content when all share strands of the same DNA.• Create and implement all contract-based operational processes with Privacy by Design protocols in mind for start-up marketing/ entertainment company including ground-up development of unique client-services offerings incorporating advertising industry-first revenue sharing models. At the moment that digital platform distribution outlets were being created, Omelet worked to build branded entertainment content before the term branded entertainment was ever put to use.• Create and implement contract-based company infrastructure across all divisions, introducing templated service offering proposals, statements of work, master services agreements, strategic collaboration agreements, and independent contractor agreements, all geared towards reducing account team learning curve while increasing client-to-client deal flexibility.• Create and implement production contract systems for all evolving media projects (websites, online videos, social media, and mobile platforms), shaping and refining film and television production, finance and distribution contract models to the new media, and ensuring compliance with COPPA and HIPAA evolving requirements. • Mindful of evolving privacy regulations, introduced compensation structures allowing for bonus and performance payments related to driving the company's IP-focused revenue engine.

New York, New York, Us

Technology, corporate and entertainment matters representing private and public companies and high profile entertainment brands and executives.• Provided early-stage data protection guidance for clients in media and technology sectors, reviewing data privacy and security clauses in commercial agreements and advising on the implications of internet-driven data collection practices in entertainment and corporate transactions.• Practice focus on entertainment, technology, and evolving media matters at the time that digital distribution platforms were emerging. Clients included motion picture, television, and web-based production, distribution, and finance companies along with directors and producers in the filmed entertainment arena. Projects ranged from the negotiation of agreements for the acquisition of literary properties to the provision of film production services to agreements related to production finance, distribution, and exhibition. • Also acted as general outside counsel to numerous corporate clients providing transactional, compliance, and litigation support as needed. Companies ranged from entertainment to transportation services. Also counseled brands concerning the integration of their goods and services into television programming and motion picture projects as a means of efficiently expending and maximizing returns from advertising and promotional dollars.

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Lived and breathed version 1.0 Terms of Use and Privacy Policies at the birth of the commercial Internet. • Advised technology startups on data protection and internet privacy concerns, integrating data security clauses in licensing agreements and ensuring compliance with early internet privacy regulations as the commercial Internet and the first dot com eruption took place.• Helped launch 50+ companies along the way and served as outside general counsel for companies from start-ups through all levels of financing. HIPAA was passed in 1996 but the first Privacy Rule did not arrive until 1999 and then was never published until 2002. COPPA was born in 1998 but was not effective until 2000. These were the infant days of online privacy laws in the US and all my training flowed from there.• Practice focuses on entertainment, Internet, licensing, and new media law, counseling Internet entrepreneurs who emerged from the independent film arena. Also represented a wide variety of technology and software companies, servicing as general outside counsel from start-up through IPO, launching more than 50 web-based companies along the way.

Trial Lawyer in training at the world's best facility. John "Jack" P. Daniels trial lawyer extraordinaire taught the most important rules of practice. There were only 4: (1) Eat; (2) Sleep; (3) Exercise; (4) "Work from the time you get to the office before me at 6am and leave after my partners leave at 9pm." I follow those rules today (at least #1-3) to ensure that lawyering remains fulfilling and effective. Favorite Cases: First Amendment right to publish "Lies, Damn Lies and Fund Advertisements" in a financial newsletter. (Morningstar v. Superior Court (1994) 23 Cal.App.4th 676)); and, Refined summary adjudication process after a defendant attempted to sneak in a declaratory relief action not properly pleaded. (Hood v. United Chambers Administrators (1995) 33 Cal.App.4th 322.)

Juris Doctor

Ba, Magna Cum Laude

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