Jim Halpert is a partner in the Communications, E-Commerce and Privacy practice of DLA Piper.

Mr. Halpert counsels technology and content companies on a broad range of legal issues concerning new technologies, including intellectual property protection, content regulation and First Amendment law, privacy, cyber-security, government surveillance, Internet gambling, Internet jurisdiction, telecommunications regulation, on-line contract formation, and spam. His counseling practice includes advising a wide range of companies regarding privacy and computer security issues, and advising copyright owners, ISPs, and equipment manufacturers regarding anti-piracy, infringement, and copy protection technology strategies.

Mr. Halpert has represented and counseled Fortune 500 and smaller companies on a broad range of privacy issues, including data security, government regulation of marketing practices, the privacy practices of websites, communications companies, email spam, and disclosure of customer information in response to government surveillance requests. For example, he has counseled clients regarding responses to more than fifty data security breaches.

Mr. Halpert is deeply involved in the evolution of new law in the technology area, and draws on this experience to provide strategic advice to clients both about where the law is today, and how it is likely to evolve in the future. He has helped to negotiate and draft many of the federal laws that govern e-commerce and use of the Internet. These include the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the CAN-SPAM Act, USA Patriot Act, Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, and Communications Decency Act. Representing a coalition of Fortune 500 companies, Mr. Halpert has helped to draft most of the state data security, security breach notification, and state spyware laws and many of the recent state spam laws, as well as California’s online privacy law. Mr. Halpert has also been involved in drafting and negotiating provisions in a variety of international treaty provisions affecting e-commerce, including the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention, and portions of the IP protection provisions in the US-Singapore and US-Chile Free Trade Agreements.

Mr. Halpert represents clients in technology litigation in the federal courts, including in Internet copyright, First Amendment, privacy, and spam cases, and has written numerous appellate briefs. He is active in FTC, FCC, and other agency proceedings related to the Internet in areas such as intellectual property protection, cyber-security, and privacy protection.

The respected English research firm Chambers & Partners cites him in Chambers USA: America 's Leading Lawyers for Business as a leader in Privacy & Data Security, commenting that he is lauded by clients as the “anchor of the practice." In 2006, Washington SmartCEO magazine named Mr. Halpert to its short list of Greater Washington's Legal Elite. He has been named a Washington, DC Super Lawyer.

In 2001-2002, he was the chief legal advisor for a report of the Autorita per le Garanzie nelle Communicazioni, the Italian communications regulator, to the prime minister and parliament of Italy regarding how the Internet should be regulated under Italian law.

資格

• District of Columbia

執筆・出版

• "New FTC Rules Clarifying CAN-SPAM Compliance To Take Effect July 7," Privacy and Security Law Report, The Bureau of National Affairs, June 2008
• "Social Networking Site Settles COPPA Charge," Privacy and Data Security Law Journal, March 2008

Seminars

• Practicing Law Institute: "Conducting eCommerce With California Consumers: Complying with California's New Online Privacy Protection Act"
• Speaker, "California's New Opt-in Spam Law," Information Technology Association of America Webcast (October 2003)
• Speaker, "Compliance Strategies for California's New Opt-in Spam Law," Software and Information Association Lecture "U.S. legal and legislative solutions to the spam problem," House of Commons Spam Summit, U.K. (July 2003)
• Guest Lecturer at Georgetown Law School on privacy law (2001-2003)
• Speaker, "Legislative and Regulatory Solutions to the Spam Problem," GBDe/Internet Law and Policy Forum (June 2003)
• Speaker, "Challenges to Copyright Owners from Peer-2-Peer Infringement," American Intellectual Property Law Association (May 2003)
• "Protecting & Managing Content Online," National Conference Group (2002)
• "Solving the Legal Issues Affecting B2B Transactions," PLI (2001)
• "Representing the E-Commerce Company," PLI (2000)

職位の情報

• Law clerk to the Honorable H. Lee Sarokin, former judge on the US District Court for the District of New Jersey