Jim Halpert is a US partner and the global co-chair of DLA Piper's highly ranked Data Protection, Privacy and Security and Cybersecurity practices. He advises Boards of Directors, GCs offices and risk officers on cyber security risk management strategies, including crisis management, incident response programs, governance, cyber security risk reviews and vendor and supply chain risk management. He has personally counseled clients regarding responses to more than 225 data security breaches since 2005, and advised dozens of clients on global privacy and security requirements. He helped to draft the NACD Cybersecurity Handbook for Corporate Directors that has been endorsed by the Department of Homeland Security and posted on the Departments website. He also represents clients in FTC and State major security and privacy cases in the federal courts and before the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Halpert represents companies on a broad range of data management issues, including cyber and data security, cloud agreements, managing privacy class action risks, trans-national data flows, navigating difficult conflicts between foreign privacy laws and US compliance obligations, regulation of advertising and marketing practices, health care and financial privacy, childrens and student privacy, privacy regulation of communications media, employee data, due diligence in sales of corporate assets, records management, and responses to government surveillance requests. He has extensive experience with European, Asian and Latin American privacy and security regimes, and regularly leads teams across DLA Pipers global network advising on complex international security and privacy matters. Representing a coalition of Fortune 500 companies, Mr. Halpert has helped to draft more than a hundred US state data security, security breach notification laws, privacy and consumer protection laws, as well as the privacy considerations section in the NIST Cyber security Framework. Mr. Halpert is a contributor to the National Association of Corporate Directors Cyber security Handbook for corporate directors. He has also helped to draft many of the United States Internet privacy laws, including the the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act, CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, the USA Patriot Act of 2001, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and Communications Decency Act, as well as the privacy provisions of the Obama Administration Cyber security Framework. Mr. Halpert was recognized by Legal 500 2013 and 2014 as a US Leading Lawyer in Cyber Crime and in Data Protection & Privacy. He has also been named by Chambers as a leading US Data Protection lawyer. He is a frequent speaker on international and US privacy developments for the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and is on the Editorial Board of the Bloomberg BNA Privacy and Data Security Report; and a board member of the Georgetown University Cybersecurity Institute. Education: Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude 1989); Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (D.E.A., 1986); Yale College (B.A., magna cum laude 1985). Member, District of Columbia bar. Fluent in French.