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This Week on The Legal Perspective
The Legal Perspective
December 18-22, 2006
Guest Speaker - Marc Zwillinger, Partner
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP - www.sonnenschein.com
Mr. Zwillinger chairs the Firm's Information Security and Internet Enforcement Practice Group from Sonnenschein's Washington, DC office. In that capacity, he provides corporations with advice and counsel on protecting the confidentiality, availability and integrity of their proprietary information and networks and compliance with information security laws and regulations. Mr. Zwillinger has helped this country's most trusted financial institutions develop incident response plans and procedures and has provided immediate incident response to those clients who have experienced a breach of their computer security or violations of their network policies. Most recently, he has been active in advising clients on compliance with security breach notification laws and conducting internal investigations of security breaches.
In addition, he has helped content providers devise and implement Internet Enforcement programs to help respond to Internet misconduct, including Internet piracy, signal theft and spam. For more than four years, he has served as National Anti-piracy Counsel for DIRECTV, Inc. Mr. Zwillinger also helps Internet Service Providers and other clients comply with their compliance obligations under federal laws (such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act) pertaining to the discovery and disclosure of customer and subscriber information.
Mr. Zwillinger regularly provides advice and counsel on issues related to the increasingly complex laws governing Internet practices, including issues related to CAN-SPAM, spyware, Internet gambling and adult-oriented content.
Mr. Zwillinger is regularly invited to speak and guest lecture to various professional audiences, and he has appeared on or been quoted in a variety of national media sources including ABC World News Tonight, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet and numerous broadcast outlets and media publications.
Prior to joining Sonnenschein, Mr. Zwillinger spent three years prosecuting cybercrime from the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice. At the Department of Justice, he coordinated the investigations of several high-profile computer crime cases including the 1997 penetration of U.S. military computer systems by an Israeli hacker ("Solar Sunrise"), the February 2000 Denial of Service Attacks on prominent e-commerce sites, and the Love Bug virus. He also investigated and prosecuted violations of the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 (the "EEA") and represented the government at trial and in sentencing proceedings in United States v. P.Y. Yang, et. al., the first EEA case successfully tried in the United States. While at the Department of Justice, Mr. Zwillinger also worked extensively on issues related to Internet gambling enforcement.
After receiving his J.D. from Harvard Law School, Mr. Zwillinger clerked for Judge Mark L. Wolf of the United States District Court, District of Massachusetts.
This week on the Legal Perspective, Mr. Zwillinger discusses the care and consideration needed when conducting internal investigations, especially with regard to electronic communications.
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This Week 
2006