Jim Halpert
Partner, DLA Piper US LLP
Jim Halpert is a co-chair of the Communications, E-Commerce and Privacy practice of DLA Piper US LLP.
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 copyright owners, ISPs, and equipment manufacturers regarding anti-piracy, infringement, and copy protection technology strategies, and advising a wide range of companies regarding privacy and computer security issues.
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, in 2005 alone, he counseled twenty clients regarding responses to data security breaches.
Mr. Halpert 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 U.S.-Singapore and U.S.-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.
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.
In 2006, Washington SmartCEO magazine named Mr. Halpert to its short list of Greater Washington's Legal Elite.
Appearances
- Internet-Based Pharmacies: Protecting Children from the Sale of Controlled Substances Online June 22, 2007
- Warehousing Consumers' Online Travels to Catch Child Predators and Terrorists October 5, 2006
- Wireless Security: An Oxymoron? November 4, 2003
Biography last updated June 2007