Business Editors/Legal Writers
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 30, 2004
The law firm of Wildman Harrold today announced that leading privacy and technology lawyer, Justine Young Gottshall, has joined the firm as a partner. Gottshall joins the firm's rapidly growing Intellectual Property Practice Group, as well as the Business Continuity and Security Group, formed last year to help clients address post 9-11 technology risks and liabilities.
Gottshall is the most recent attorney with a strong background in privacy to join the firm within the last year. She counsels clients in the areas of privacy, marketing and promotion, Internet activities, and related matters. She conducts privacy audits, counsels concerning spam and related email marketing issues, and drafts Web site privacy policies and terms of use. Additionally, Gottshall analyzes Web site materials and creates compliance strategies.
Wildman Harrold's multidisciplinary privacy team--which now numbers eight lawyers--advises clients on a wide range of online and other business activities. The firm's lawyers in this area assist with regulatory compliance, represent clients in privacy-related litigation investigations, and provide employment counsel and training on issues such as the security of electronic employee records.
The privacy team includes Bill Cook, a former Justice Department Counter-Espionage and Counter-Terrorism Coordinator, who joined Wildman Harrold in April of last year. Cook heads the firm's Business Continuity and Security Group, created in September to protect companies from the risks of "downstream liability" presented by system vulnerabilities to outside influences that can result in damage to other networks. Security regulations issued by the government after 9/11 were designed to protect business infrastructure from hostile attacks and intrusions, but they also place burdens on corporations in nearly every industry. In addition to liability risk, companies must readdress compliance programs; work place policies regarding internet and email usage, privacy and sexual harassment; corporate information sharing practices; and intellectual property protections.
"Justine offers clients a sophisticated perspective on post 9/11 regulations," Cook said. "With her wealth of experience, she can effectively assist clients in taking the necessary preventative steps to ensure their systems are not used by a terrorist or hacker to create downstream damage. We're delighted she has joined us."
Gottshall has given a number of speeches regarding privacy and email marketing, including the newly enacted federal CAN-SPAM Act. She is also the author of "Privacy Matters: Mistakes to Avoid," published in the Maryland Bar Bulletin last November and "Privacy Issues Tangle the Web," which appeared in The Industrial Physicist.
Prior to coming to Wildman Harrold, Gottshall spent three years representing large national and multinational corporate clients at The Entertainment and Intellectual Property Group LLC in Chicago. Before that, she practiced law at Hogan and Hartson, LLP in Washington, D.C.
Gottshall earned her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1994. While at Stanford, she served as a Symposium Editor of the Stanford Law and Policy Review and Vice President of the Moot Court Board. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a double major in English and Theatre and Drama.
Wildman Harrold is a full service firm with a broad national and international practice and more than 200 attorneys practicing in Chicago, Lisle, Illinois and London. The firm's IP Group is comprised of 20 lawyers knowledgeable in both traditional and emerging areas of intellectual property, including patents, trade identities, copyright, information technology, transactions, litigation, marketing, and business continuity and security.
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