Jay Westermeier is a partner in DLA Piper's Northern Virginia and Washington, DC, offices. He has been involved in all aspects of information technology, including intellectual property, technology licensing, and other forms of technology contracts, risk management, domestic and international distribution, corporate, litigation, arbitration, and mediation. He represents emerging and established software, Internet, electronic commerce, and other information technology companies, as well as information technology users and suppliers.

Mr. Westermeier is the only lawyer ever to have received the Distinguished Information Sciences Award, the annual honor that is the highest award presented by the Association of Information Technology Professionals. He is a past president of The International Technology Law Association (formerly known as The Computer Law Association), the world’s largest association of its kind, with members in 60 countries. He also served as the chairman of the American Bar Association’s committee on professionalism of computer specialists under the Science and Technology Section; co-chair of the DC Bar’s Computer and Telecommunications Section; and director of the DC Computer Law Forum. He has been awarded a Certificate in Data Processing (CDP) by the Institute for the Certification for Computer Professionals.

Mr. Westermeier was appointed by the governor of Virginia and approved by the Virginia Assembly to serve a four-year term on the Council on Information Management for the Commonwealth of Virginia. He is also a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America every year since 2003. He is also listed in Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Information Technology Lawyers, Mondaq’s Listing of the World’s Leading Internet and E-Commerce Lawyers, Marquis Who’s Who 2007, Law Business Research Limited’s An International Who’s Who of e-Commerce Lawyers (2d Edition), Who’s Who Legal – The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, and on the Best of United States web site. He has been named a Virginia Super Lawyer, a Washington, DC Super Lawyer, and one of Virginia's Legal Elite (2006). He is named in The International Who's Who of Internet and e-Commerce Lawyers 2008.

Mr. Westermeier is the founder of the Georgetown University Law Center’s Advanced Computer and Internet Law Institute and co-founder of the Virginia Bar’s Information Technology Legal Institute. He serves on the advisory boards for The Computer Law Reporter, E-Commerce Law & Strategy, BNA’s Computer Technology Law, BNA's Electronic Commerce & Law, Commercial Law Advisor, Intellectual Property Counselor, Internet Law and Business, and Information Strategy: The Executive’s Journal. He is also on the advisory board for The Computer Law Association and the World Organization of Law and Computer Science.

Mr. Westermeier is a USA correspondent for Computer Law Review International. He has edited several books on computer law, contributed to a number of the leading computer law treatises, published more than 170 articles on legal issues related to information technology, and lectured at conferences, seminars, and programs all over the world on numerous computer and Internet-related legal topics. He is a 2001 recipient of the Burton Award for Legal Excellence.

REGISTRATIES

• District of Columbia
• Maryland
• Virginia

Lidmaatschap

• Advisory Board, International Technology Law Association (formerly known as Computer Law Association)
• Advisory Board, World Organization of Law and Computer Science
• Distinguished Panel of Neutrals, Technology Panel, CPR Dispute Resolution Institute
• Faculties of Georgetown University Law Center , USC, Virginia Bar, CLE Foundation, D.C. Bar and PLI Continuing Legal Education
• American Bar Association Public Contract Law Section, Science and Technology Section, Litigation Section, and Antitrust Section
• Bar Association of the District of Columbia
• Virginia Bar Association
• Maryland State Bar Association

Publicaties

• "New Strategies and Risk Management Practices For Open Source Software," Chapter 18, Drafting License Agreements (4th Edition) (2006 Supplement), Aspen Law & Business 2005, 2006
• "Software Licensing," Chapter 13, Drafting License Agreements (4th Edition), Aspen Law & Business, 2002, 2003
• "Overview of 2004 Computer Law Case Developments," Computer Law Reporter, Summer 2005
• "Overview of the 2003 Computer Law Case Developments," Computer Law Reporter, August 2004
• "Lessons Learned About Best Practices in IT Law," Computer Law Review International, June 2004
• Co-author, "Civil Litigation: Security," Spring 2004 Cumulative Supplement to Data Security and Privacy Law: Combatting Cyberthreats, published by West Group, a Thomson business
• "Ethics and the Internet," 17 Georgetown Journal of Ethics 267, 2004
• Co-author, The E-Business Legal Survival Kit, April 2005
• "Overview of 2002 Computer Law Case Developments," published by the Computer Law Reporter, Inc.
• Co-author, "Civil Litigation," Chapter 8, Data Security and Privacy Laws: Combating Cyber Threats , West Group, 2002, 2003)
• Co-author, "E-Business Legal Survival Guide," Chapter 1, Documenting E-Commerce Transactions, Business Laws, Inc. 2001, 2002, 2004
• "Information Technology Copyright Law Basics," Piper Rudnick LLP, 2003
• "Overview of 2001 Computer Law Case Developments," published by The Computer Law Reporter, Inc.
• "Computer Law Case Developments for 2000," published by The Computer Law Reporter, 2001; "Computer Law Case Developments for 1999," published by The Computer Law Reporter, 2000
• Co-author, "The E-Business Legal Survival Kit" in the E-Commerce InFoPAK, published by the American Corporate Counsel Association and ACCA Online. Publication of the InFoPAK was underwritten by West Group.
• Co-author, "The Enforceability of Electronic Agreements," published by the American Corporate Counsel Association as part of ACCA's Virtual Library, available in the ACCA Members Only Section of ACCA OnLine. Publication was underwritten by West Group.

Seminars

• "Technology Law Developments," 2006 Virginia Information Technology Legal Institute, September 29, 2006
• "Publicity Rights," 3rd Conference of the Americas, IT Business in the Americas, Mexico City, Mexico, December 2, 2005
• "New Strategies and Risk Management Practices for Open Source Software," American Bar Association, Reston, VA, June 23, 2005
• "Copyright," Virginia Bar CLE Intellectual Property Bootcamp, June 9, 2005
• "Protecting Electronic Proprietary Real Estate Listing Content," National Association of Realtors, May 11, 2004.
• "Update on Developments in Information Technology Law," 2004 World Computer and Internet Law Congress, May 7, 2004.
• "Current Computer and Internet Law Developments," 17th Annual Advanced Computer and Internet Law Institute, March 4-5, 2004
• "Online Contracting and Documents," II Conference of the Americas , Electronic Commerce: Legal Framework Progress and Development, February 5, 2004
• "Converting Security Concerns into Contract Specifications and Addressing Potential Liability for Security Breaches," Conference on Negotiating Technology Outsourcing Agreements, Law Seminars International, January 2004
• "Managing the Legal Risks in E-Commerce: Best Practices and Strategies," Computer Law Association's IT Meets Telecom Conference, November 2003
• "Mock Negotiation of a Typical Outsourcing Deal in the Financial Services Industry," Practicing Law Institute Outsourcing 2003 Conference, October 2003
• "How Recent Developments Are Affecting Information Technology Legal Practitioners," Third Annual Virginia Information Technology Legal Institute, October 2003
• "Ethics and the Internet," DC Bar Continuing Legal Education Program, September 2003
• "Recent Developments," World Computer and Internet Law Congress, May 1, 2003
• "Open Source Legal Issues," Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and E.U., March 17, 2003
• "Key Recent Developments - Part I and Part II," Advanced Computer and Internet Law Institute, March 6-7, 2003
• "Software Services and Maintenance Agreements: Fundamentals," Practicing Law Institute 23rd Annual Institute on Computer Law, February 6, 2003
• "Ethics and the Internet," D.C. Bar Continuing Legal Education Program, January 15, 2003