2020 CCPA Final Regulations: Approved Modifications and Extensions of Employee and Business-to-Business Exemptions

Mr. Burstein provides legal advice on privacy, information security, and marketing laws and best practices, including compliance with federal and state laws throughout the U.S. As regulations such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) bring significant changes to the legal landscape, he helps clients evolve their business practices to manage risk. In addition to counselling clients on the privacy and security issues that come up in the course of day-to-day business, Mr. Burstein also advises clients on legislative and regulatory developments affecting cutting-edge technologies such as drones and connected vehicles.

Mr. Friel is a thought leader in digital media, intellectual property, data privacy and protection, and consumer protection law, with over three decades of relevant experience to address the intersection of law and technology.

Having served as a general counsel for several years in the late 1990s before returning to private practice, he has the necessary expertise to advise clients on making practical and informed business decisions and help companies and entrepreneurs navigate the complex opportunities created by disruptive technology. With his in-house and private practice experience, Mr. Friel assists clients with creating data inventories, and information governance and data privacy and security programs. He has been helping shape law and public policy regarding digital media since he was the Sherwood Shafer Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union from 1992-1994, addressing the potential benefits and risks of the then emerging Internet, and has made the evolution of data technologies, and corresponding regulation, the focus of his legal practice.

Mr.  Manek's global practice focuses on data analytics, cyber, data privacy, e-discovery, and digital forensics. He specializes in providing expert consulting services to organizations involved in large, complex, data-intensive regulatory change management projects.