SILICON VALLEY – Aug. 31, 2022 – Ian C. Ballon, co-chair of the Intellectual Property (IP) & Technology Practice at global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP, will speak during a webinar hosted by the International Trademark Association (INTA) on Aug. 31.
The panel, titled “Privacy and Cybersecurity Litigation Trends and Survival Kit for Brand Owners,” will highlight trends in data breach, privacy and cybersecurity class action litigation, including cases brought under the 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act. The panel also will provide strategies to help brands move beyond a cybersecurity or privacy breach crisis, according to the event’s agenda.
Ballon, an Internet, data privacy/security and IP litigation shareholder in Greenberg Traurig’s Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. offices, has been included in The Daily Journal’s annual list of Top IP Litigators in California every year that the list has been published, from 2009 to 2021, and was named Lawyer of the Year for Information Technology Law in the 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016, and 2013 editions of Best Lawyers in America. In 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018 he was recognized as one of the Top 1,000 trademark attorneys in the world for his litigation practice by World Trademark Review. He is included in the Lawdragon list of the Top 500 Lawyers in America and has been listed on The Daily Journal’s list of the Top 100 Lawyers in California. In 2019, he was named one of the top 20 cybersecurity lawyers in California and, in 2018, one of the top cybersecurity/artificial intelligence lawyers in California by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal. Ballon received the 2017 Intellectual Property “Trailblazer” Award from The National Law Journal and has been recognized as a “Groundbreaker” in The Recorder’s 2017 Litigation Departments of the Year Awards. He was also the recipient of the California State Bar Intellectual Property Law section's Vanguard Award for significant contributions to the development of intellectual property law. Ballon is an elected member of the American Law Institute and served as an advisor to its international IP jurisdiction project. He also is a member of the consultative group for the American Law Institute’s Data Privacy Principles of Law project and chairs the Practising Law Institute’s annual conference. Ballon is the author of West’s bestselling five-volume legal treatise, E-Commerce and Internet Law 2d ed. (http://www.ianballon.net/).