Before heading out to the St. Patrick's Day parade, wrap up your ABA TECHSHOW experience by attending this perennial favorite, which is always one of the best attended sessions. Our panelists will review the hottest new websites for lawyers and legal professionals - great web resources on legal technology, practice management, research, ethics, and they'll toss in some practical and fun stuff, too.

Who's Watching You? A Conversation About Privacy on the Internet

Posted on: January 29, 2008

In countless ways the Internet is now entwined in the practice of law, both in how lawyers work with and serve clients, and how law firms function and operate. Huge amounts of confidential client and firm information are exchanged, communicated or stored online. New online services promise greater efficiences, better client service and more productive practices, but are there privacy concerns? Join us on Thursday, March 13, at 1:00 p.m. for a discussion and debate of the issue of online privacy, and its implications for the practice of law.

Marc Rotenberg's Bio

Marc Rotenberg is Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC.ORG) in Washington, DC. He teaches information privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center and has testified before Congress on many issues, including access to information, encryption policy, consumer protection, computer security, and communications privacy. He testified before the 9-11 Commission on "Security and Liberty: Protecting Privacy, Preventing Terrorism." He has served on several national and international advisory panels, including the expert panels on Cryptography Policy and Computer Security for the OECD, the Legal Experts on Cyberspace Law for UNESCO, and the Countering Spam program of the ITU. He currently chairs the ABA Committee on Privacy and Information Protection. He is the former Chair of the Public Interest Registry, which manages the .ORG domain. He is editor of Privacy and Human Rights and The Privacy Law Sourcebook, and co-editor (with Daniel J. Solove and Paul Schwartz) of Information Privacy Law (Aspen Publishing 2007). He is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School. He served as Counsel to Senator Patrick J. Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee after graduation from law school. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the recipient of several awards including the  World Technology Award in Law. A tournament chess player, Marc won the 2007 Washington, DC Chess Championship.