Marc Zwillinger
Zwillinger Genetski LLP
Marc Zwillinger is a founding partner of Zwillinger Genetski LLP and has been regularly providing advice and counsel on issues related to the increasingly complex laws governing Internet practices, including issues related to Electronic Communications Privacy Act ("ECPA"), the Wiretap and Communication Acts, privacy, CAN-SPAM, FISA, spyware, adware, Internet gambling and adult-oriented content. He also helps Internet Service Providers and other clients comply with their compliance obligations pertaining to the discovery and disclosure of customer and subscriber information.
Marc also provides corporations with advice and counsel on protecting the data on their networks from internal and external threats, and counsels them through handling data breaches and internal misuse of their network. Marc regularly works with clients who have suffered security breaches in conducting internal investigations, complying with security breach notification laws, and responding to FTC and state Attorney General inquiries.
Prior to starting Zwillinger Genetski LLP, Marc ran the Privacy and Security groups at two major national firms: Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Before that, he spent three years prosecuting cybercrime from the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice. At the Department of Justice, he coordinated the investigations of several high-profile computer crime cases including the 1997 penetration of U.S. military computer systems by an Israeli hacker ("Solar Sunrise"), the February 2000 Denial of Service Attacks on prominent e-commerce sites, and the Love Bug virus. He also investigated and prosecuted violations of the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 (the "EEA") and represented the government at trial and in sentencing proceedings in United States v. P.Y. Yang, et al., the first EEA case successfully tried in the United States.
After receiving his J.D. from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude in 1994, Marc clerked for Judge Mark L. Wolf of the United States District Court, District of Massachusetts.
Marc frequently is invited to speak to various professional audiences and to conduct in-house training courses. He has appeared on national news programs and has been a quoted source for a number of national media outlets. He is also an adjunct professor of Cybercrime at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. Marc holds an active security clearance for classified matters.
Appearances
- State of the Net Conference 2011, January 18, 2011
Biography last updated December 20, 2010