Eric J. Sinrod

is a strong and experienced advocate for his clients and has represented them before the United States Supreme Court, other appellate courts, and in a number of jury and court trials, arbitrations and mediations. His practice has covered many important Internet, software, software defect, technology, intellectual property (trademark, copyright, patent, trade secrets), information, communications, commercial, antitrust, eDiscovery, education, environmental, and insurance coverage issues. He has represented domestic and international clients in major class actions and where hundreds of millions of dollars have been at stake. He also has handled numerous matters for smaller companies and individuals. Mr. Sinrod has been highlighted by an outside publication as the leading IP attorney in the land, and he has been selected by his peers as one of the Best Lawyers in America in the area of Cyber Law and annually as a Super Lawyer for Business Litigation. Mr. Sinrod has a reputation for being immediately responsive to clients and working efficiently and within budgets. He is considered a thought-leader on electronic discovery issues, which can lead to great cost savings for clients. While Mr. Sinrod is creative in coming up with solutions to resolve disputes, he will fight strategically when that is in the best interests of clients. Mr. Sinrod also serves as a mediator, and strives to resolve disputes efficiently and effectively for all parties. After a recent matter in which Mr. Sinrod acted as mediator, one attorney stated: Eric, we were very happy with how you handled the mediation; I would use you again in a heartbeat. He also is innovative and entrepreneurial; for example, he was an early pioneer and developer of Internet law, he started the first Cyberlaw blog, and he also spearheaded Duane Morris' merger with Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft.

His work has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, Time.com, Bloomberg News, Trials Digest, The Wall Street Reporter Magazine, Fox News, The Supreme Court of the United States Blog, CFO Magazine, National Law Journal, Wired.com, Computer World, Cyber Esq. Magazine, Business Insurance Magazine, The ABA Journal, The American Lawyer, The California Lawyer, The Privacy Journal, Intellectual Property Counselor, Career Education Review, The Minnesota Star Tribune, Counsel to Counsel, Lawyers Weekly, Lawyers USA, The Recorder, The Daily Journal, Security Management Magazine, Compliance Week, Investor Relations, IPFrontline.com, Business Credit magazine, SCMagazineus.com, The Village Voice, Corporate Counsel's Records Retention Report, The San Francisco Business Times, The East Bay Business Times, Law360, TechPulse360, ROBTV, Newsday, Creditline, SlashDot and Japanese public television.

Blogs and Podcasts

Mr. Sinrod is one of the hosts of TechLaw10, a 10-minute audio podcast update on technology law issues. Mr. Sinrod writes weekly legal blogs for Findlaw.com, and his blogs also have been published by CNET News.com, USAToday.com, Law.com, Computerworld.com, CNN.com, MSN.com, AllThingsDigital.com and Silicon.com and he has been a regular guest speaker covering legal issues for LAWCAST, the Legal Talk Network, Tech TV, KNX CBS Radio, Live Online News and CNET Radio. Mondaq has announced that one of Mr. Sinrod's blogs was the most popular article in the United States in the month that it was published.

Professor

Mr. Sinrod has been an adjunct professor of law and has published many law review and other journal articles. He is a frequent speaker on Internet, intellectual property, information, communications, climate change and environmental issues. He has been an advisor to the Cyberspace Law Seminar at Hastings College of the Law and has taught an Information Law Seminar at Golden Gate University School of Law. He also teaches: Cybercrime and also Constitutional Law at Sonoma State University; Business Legal Ethics & Policy as well as The History of Business and Trade at Dominican University's Business School; Tech & Internet Law, International Law & Policy, The Law of Climate Change, Environmental Law & Policy, Environmental Preservation & Eco-Justice, Healthcare Law & Policy, Art Crime Law and Big History at Dominican University; Internet Law, International Law and Ethical, Moral and Legal Dilemmas at the University of California, Berkeley OLLI, the Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco, Sonoma State OLLI, and the Dominican OLLI; and Business Media Law at Ex'pression Center for New Media. Mr. Sinrod has lectured at conferences at Stanford University Law School, U.C. Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), UCLA School of Law, and he has lectured at the Presidio MBA Graduate School. Mr. Sinrod's videos discussing the intersection of law and technology have been featured on YouTube and Google Video .

Memberships

Mr. Sinrod is a member of the Board of Directors for the Computer Law Association, the Editorial Board of the Journal of Internet Law, the ABA Internet Industry Committee, the Board of Advisors for the Start-Up and Emerging Companies Newsletter for American Lawyer Media, the Advisory Board for the BNA Electronic Commerce & Law Report, and the Executive Committee of the Law Practice Management & Technology Section of the State Bar of California.

Further Experience

Mr. Sinrod was a judicial clerk for the Honorable Samuel Conti, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He served as lead trial attorney in a number of jury trials as a Special Deputy District Attorney for the Marin County District Attorney's Office. Mr. Sinrod has been an appellate and trial moot court judge at Boalt Hall and other law schools.

Mr. Sinrod is admitted to practice law in the United States Supreme Court, a number of other federal courts and all California courts.

Resume

Experience

•Duane Morris LLP
- Of Counsel, 2014-present
- Partner, 2000-2014
•Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft LLP, San Francisco, California
- Partner, 1992-2000
- Associate, 1987-1991
•Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, San Francisco, California
- Associate, 1985-1987
•United States District Court for the Northern District of California
- Judicial Clerk, Honorable Samuel M. Conti, 1984-1985

Honors and Awards

•Listed in Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition, 2010
•Named a Super Lawyer for Business Litigation, 2006-present
•Listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Cyberlaw, 2005-subsequent years
•Mr. Sinrod's article, Word to the Wise If You Quit In a Huff, was the most popular article in the United States on the Mondaq service, April 2006.
•Recipient, Internet Marketing Attorney Awards of 2003. Mr. Sinrod was referred to as the leading IP attorney in the land.
•AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

Board Memberships

•Editorial Board, Journal of Internet Law
•Advisory Board, Start-Up and Emerging Companies Newsletter, published by American Lawyer Media
•Advisory Board, BNA Electronic Commerce & Law Report

Publications

Selected Publications

•Contributor, Duane Morris Tech Law Blog
•More than 900 weekly legal blogs for CNET News.com, Findlaw.com, CNN.com, MSN.com, AllThingsDigital.com, Silicon.com, The Supreme Court of the United States Blog, USATODAY.com, American Lawyer Media's Law.com, Computerworld and Upside, all of which are available at http://www.duanemorris.com/site/articles.html and http://www.sinrodlaw.com (1999 to present)
•Author, The Year in Tech Law 2016, a compilation of blog posts for Findlaw's Technologist blog, January 2017
•Author, The Year in Tech Law 2015, a compilation of blog posts for Findlaw's Technologist blog, January 2016
•Author, The Year in Tech Law 2014, a compilation of blog posts for Findlaw's Technologist blog, January 2015
• How Will International Law Treat Cyberwar?, Daily Journal, April 11, 2014
•Author, The Year in Tech Law 2013, a compilation of blog posts for Findlaw's Technologist blog, January 2014
•Featured in Lawyer Blogs Come of Age by Julia Love, The Recorder, July 26, 2013
•Featured in Marin Snapshot: Corte Madera's Eric Sinrod Plugged into Cyber Law by Vicki Larson, Marin Independent Journal, February 10, 2013
• The Challenges of eDiscovery and Cloud Computing, NYSBA Inside, Winter 2012, Vol. 30, No. 3
•Author, The Year in Tech Law 2012, a compilation of blog posts for Findlaw's Technologist blog, January 2013
•Author, The Year in Tech Law 2011, a compilation of blog posts for Findlaw's Technologist blog, January 2012
• By The Numbers - The Internet Affects How Students View Everything - Including Your School, Career College Central, January 2012, p. 66
• Share On The Inside, Protect On The Outside: Best Practices For IP Protection In The Age Of Social Networking, LES Insights, December 2011
• Guidelines Needed For Social Networking In the Contemporary Workplace, Privacy Journal, Vol. 37, No. 12, October 2011
• Are the Social Networking Kids Alright? and Workplace Social Networking: Is Facebook During Work Hours Good?, Career Education Review, Section 1, October 2011
•Featured in Drugmakers Avoid Social Media Sites: Recent FDA Warning To Novartis Over A Facebook Ad Rattled Pharmaceuticals by Mandy Jackson, San Francisco Daily Journal, September 10, 2010
•Quoted in Hot spot dangers: That Internet cafe could cost you way more than a cup of coffee by Mary K. Pratt, ComputerWorld, April 20, 2010
• Are You Safe On Wi-Fi?, Privacy Journal, December 2009
• Preventing Predatory Marketing Practices Against Minors, Intellectual Property Counselor, 156:18, December 2009
• States Embrace Electronic Discovery, Corporate Counsel's Records Retention Report, 145:3, November 2009
•Featured in Getting Down to Business, California Lawyer, April 2010
• Spoliation Of Electronic Evidence Can Lead To Death-Knell Sanctions, Corporate Counsel's Records Retention Report, 134:3, February 2009
• Getting A Hold On Legal Holds, Corporate Counsel's Records Retention Report, 134:1, February 2009
• Employees, Employers and Social Networking Issues, E-Commerce Law & Policy, 10:10:3, October 2008
• Universities and Colleges Need Privacy Education, Career Education Review, Section 1, p. 24, October 2008
• Going Back To School On Security, Career Education Review, Section 1, p. 29, September 2008
• The Impact of Data Loss Prevention Communications Capture on E-discovery, contribution to publication by Pro-Tec Data, June 2007
•Featured in Looking for Line Where Web Use Crosses into Trespassing by Jessie Seyfer, The Recorder, April 16, 2007
•New Scientist: Book Review - The Second Life Herald, 2007.
•The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development, Quoted In Book By Ari Kaplan, 2007.
• Promise of EFOIA Still Unfulfilled Ten Years Later, 33:7 Access Reports 3, 2007
•Featured in As Candidates Mull '08, Web Sites Are Already Running, The New York Times, November 18, 2006
• Attention Trademark Owners: Take a Hit! IPFrontline.com, November 2006
• Workplace Worries: Blogging, IMing, iPods and Camera Phones - Oh My! Business Credit, October 2006
• Creative Commons - An Answer to the Copyright Debate? IPFrontline.com, September 2006
•Featured in Writing His Own Ticket, The Recorder, July 19, 2006
• How We Almost Lost Our BlackBerries, For The Defense, June 2006.
• Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Protects Employers, Human Resource Ideas & Trends; Human Resource Executive, May 2006.
• Word to the Wise If You Quit In a Huff, Mondaq, April 2006 (most popular article in the United States that month).
• FCUKLIFESTYLE.com Domain Name Ordered Transferred to French Connection, 1 Journal of Internet Law 1 (2005).
• The Legal Implications of Disappearing E-Mail, 7:9 Journal of Internet Law 23 (2004).
• Internet Forms and Commentary: A Practitioner's Guide to E-Commerce Contracts and the World Wide Web, a Chapter on Metatag License Contracts, ABA Section of Business Law, Committee on Law in Cyberspace, Information Infrastructure Subcommittee, and Internet Industry Committee (2002).
• The Future of Internet Privacy, 4:9 Journal of Internet Law 22 (2001).
• Cyber-Crimes: A Practical Approach to the Application of Federal Computer Crime Laws, 16 Computer & High Technology Law Journal 177 (2000).
•Chapter author for the book, Internet Law and Business Handbook, Ladera Press, (2000).
• Hacking Your Way to Hard Time: Application of Computer Crime Laws to Specific Types of Hacking Attacks, Journal of Internet Law 1 (2000).
• The Evolving Role of Trademark in Cyberspace, 3:10 Journal of Internet Law 5 (2000).
• The Eye of the High Tech Storm: The Law of E-Mail, 3:8 and 3:9 Journal of Internet Law 1 (2000).
• Commercial Use of E-Mail and Potential Pitfalls of Anti-Spam Laws, VIBES (2000).
• Controlling Chaos: The Emerging Law of Privacy and Speech in Cyberspace, 1999 Stanford Technology Law Review 1 (http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Articles).
• First Steps in Formulating Net Tax Policy, 3:2 Journal of Internet Law 13 (1999).
• The New Wave of Speech and Privacy Developments in Cyberspace, 21:3 Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal 5831 (1999).
• Keeping the E-Commerce Taxman at Bay: The Internet Tax Freedom Act, Spring 1999 Report of the ABA Industry Internet Committee.
• Internet Privacy: Is Someone Invading Your Cyberspace? 14:1 Computer Law Association Bulletin (1999).
• Net Tax, Daily Journal, California Business Law Adviser, March 15, 1999, p. 18.
• Sweet Land of E-Liberty: The Internet Tax Freedom Act, 2:7 Journal of Internet Law (1999).
• Cyberspeech: Censorship, 'Spam,' and Defamation, presented at the 28th Annual Computer Law Association Conference (Washington, D.C., April 1999).
• Filtering Out Internet Facts, Daily Journal Cyber Esq. (Winter 1998-99).
• Internet Speech: Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle, 2:4 Journal of Internet Law 1 (1998).
• Privacy Lost in the Brave New Web? 2:3 Journal of Internet Law 1 (1998).
• Policing Web Sites, 25:1 Privacy Journal 3 (1998).
• Privacy Lost in the Brave New Web? 24:20 Access Reports 8 (1998).
• Improving Access to Government Information in an Era of Budgetary Constraints, 27 Urban Lawyer 105 (1995).
• Freedom of Information Act Disclosure Deadlines: Bridging the Gap Between Legislative Intent and Economic Reality, 43 American University Law Review 325 (1994).
• Specific Recommendations for Improving Media Access to Government Information, 15 Journal of Media Law and Practice 79 (1994).
• Proposals for Expediting Access to Government Communications and Information, 12:3 Communications Lawyer 6 (1994).
• Applying the Freedom of Information Act in the Immigration Context, 94-12 Immigration Briefing 1 (1994).
• Reconciling Congressional Intent with Budgetary Constraints Re FOIA Response Deadlines, 20:8 Access Reports 3 (1994).
• It's High Time We Had a FOIA That Works, 17:1 The National Law Journal (9/5/94).
• Blocking Access to Government Information Under the New Personal Privacy Rule, 24 Seton Hall Law Review 214 (1993).
• Expediting Access to Government Information Relative to Immigration Proceedings, 71 Interpreter Releases 669 (1993).
• Emerging Judicial Precedent Threatens Media Access to Government Information, 21:1 Media Law Notes 15 (1993).
•Arguing for Derivative Use, 19:22 Access Reports 5 (1993).

Speaking Engagements

Selected Speaking Engagements

•Regular Guest Speaker for Coast to Coast program on the Legal Talk Network, http://www.legaltalknetwork.com.
•Regular Guest Speaker Covering Internet Legal Issues for Live Online News, www.liveonlinenews.com.
•Regular Guest Speaker Addressing Cyberlaw Matters for CNET Radio; 910 AM, www.cnetradio.com.
•Regular Guest Speaker for LAWCAST; www.lawcast.com .

•Co-host, Risks of Collaboration and Deep Pocket Litigation in AI and Cutting-Edge Tech, TechLaw10 Podcast, November 2019

•Co-host, Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid of Deepfakes!, TechLaw10 Podcast, October 2019

•Co-host, Will Data Breach Litigation Soar After Latest Class Actions?, TechLaw10 Podcast, October 2019

•Co-host, Prosecutors Seek To Crack Down On Romance Scams, TechLaw10 Podcast, October 2019

•Co-host, The Role of Third-Parties in Data Breaches, TechLaw10 Podcast, August 2019

•Co-host, CDA Section 230 ISP Immunity Coming Under Attack, TechLaw10 Podcast, August 2019

•Co-host, Top EU Court Decides There's Lots Not To Like in Likes, TechLaw10 Podcast, July 2019

•Co-host, Artificial Intelligence and Efforts To Seek Global Domination, TechLaw10 Podcast, July 2019

•Co-host, Sirens Sound for Police in GDPR Enforcement Action, TechLaw10 Podcast, July 2019

•Co-host, Another State Law Seeks To Protect Consumer Data, TechLaw10 Podcast, June 2019

•Co-host, What To Do About Social Media When It Becomes Anti-Social?, TechLaw10 Podcast, June 2019

•Co-host, Artificial Intelligence - Is the U.S. Government For or Against?, TechLaw10 Podcast, May 2019

•Co-host, Voice Data Collected Unlawfully Must Be Destroyed, TechLaw10 Podcast, May 2019

•Co-host, Lessons Learned From Pregnancy Club's Poor Data Handling, TechLaw10 Podcast, April 2019

•Co-host, Involuntary Technological Encroachment, TechLaw10 Podcast, March 2019

•Co-host, Conflicts Created By Artificial Intelligence, TechLaw10 Podcast, March 2019

•Co-host, Should Consumers Share In Wealth Derived By Tech Companies From Personal Online Data?, TechLaw10 Podcast, March 2019

•Co-host, Security Measures For Top Tech Executives, TechLaw10 Podcast, February 2019

•Co-host, Internet Censorship On The Rise?, TechLaw10 Podcast, February 2019

•Co-host, GDPR Fine for Google Just