Andrew Serwin
Partner
Foley & Lardner LLP

Andrew B. Serwin is a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation; Information Technology and Outsourcing; General Commercial Litigation; and the Trademark, Copyright & Advertising Practice Groups. He is also a member of the Venture Capital, Emerging Technologies, Life Sciences, and Health Care Industry Teams.

Mr. Serwin has extensive experience in privacy and security matters, including state, federal and international restrictions on the use and transfer of information, security breach compliance, incident response, marketing restrictions, and the drafting and implementation of privacy and security policies. Mr. Serwin also advises media and Internet companies regarding online contracting issues, licensing issues, domain name issues, and intellectual property issues.

Mr. Serwin also has broad experience in technology and business law, including corporate finance, partnership law, securities, e-commerce, software development and licensing, intellectual property licensing and protection, manufacturing and distribution arrangements, joint ventures, information technology transactions, as well as real estate transactions. He has advised hedge funds and broker dealers in a variety of transactions.

Mr. Serwin's litigation practice includes unfair competition matters; intellectual property litigation; corporate governance disputes; complex commercial litigation; e-commerce matters; partnership disputes and real property matters.

He is the author of "Information Security and Privacy: A Practical Guide to Federal, State and International Law," a 2,000 page treatise that examines all aspects of privacy and security laws, published by West Legalworks. Mr. Serwin is also the author of the "Internet Marketing Law Handbook," published by West Legalworks, which covers topics such as privacy and security, commercial e-mail laws, spyware and unfair competition law. He is also the author of the advertising section of the "ABA Model Web Site: A Knowledge Management Approach to E-Business Model Web Site" that provides guidance on "best practices" for Internet issues, as well as co-chair and principle author of the Privacy and Security Section of the ABA's new publication, "Selling Products and Services and Licensing Software Online: An Interactive Guide With Legal Forms and Commentary to Privacy, Security and Consumer Law Issues" (June 2007).

Mr. Serwin was recently appointed to the legal subcommittee of the Privacy & Security Advisory Board of the California Health and Human Services Agency by the California Office of HIPAA Implementation. The committee is charged with developing standards for California's Interoperable Health Information Exchange for electronic health information, which includes creating and adopting a process to develop and set overall standards, overseeing the coordination, analysis, and promulgation of privacy and security requirements for the Health Information Exchange, researching and developing model contracts and related documents, and providing guidance regarding the interaction of HIPAA and California law. He was also recognized as a "Southern California Super Lawyer", and was previously identified as one of the leading intellectual property attorneys by the Daily Transcript in its 2005 "Top Attorneys List." He is also the former co-chair of the California State Bar's Cyberspace Law Committee, and the former chair of the San Diego County Bar Association's Web site Committee from 2002-2004. Mr. Serwin is also a frequent presenter and commentator on technology and legal matters. He is also a columnist for The Daily Transcript on technology issues.

Mr. Serwin also serves on the editorial board of the Cyberspace Lawyer, and on the Publications Board of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association.

Mr. Serwin is a graduate of the University of San Diego School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1995), where he was a member of the Order of the Coif. He earned his B.A. in political science, cum laude, from the University of California, San Diego in 1992. Mr. Serwin is admitted to practice law in California.