Legal Work Highlights

Eric provides counsel to businesses regarding their data privacy and security practices. Specifically:

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

• Provides counsel concerning the collection of personal information from children, specifically location, age, and voice information.
• Drafts privacy policies, terms of use, and COPPA compliant notices for mobile and website applications.
• Guides businesses regarding notice and actual knowledge.

The Telephone Consumer Privacy Act (TCPA)

• Provides counsel regarding notice, consent, opt-out, and other requirements.
• Advises concerning exceptions in healthcare context and applicability of TCPA to B2B communications.
• Counsels on the business impact and potential liability costs associated with call and text message communications.

State Biometric Privacy Laws

• Recommends the proper of third-party biometric systems for employees and its regulation, by state-specific biometric privacy laws and state breach notification laws.
• Counsels regarding the use of biometric systems in Illinois, Texas, Arkansas, Connecticut, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and South Carolina.
• Advises on notice, consent, destruction, and security of biometric information.

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)

• Prepares data processing addendum to help international businesses comply with CCPA provisions regarding service providers.
• Conducts data mapping/inventory for businesses in order to comply with abbreviated notice and California-specific privacy policy.
• Draft California specific privacy policy, draft employee and job applicant privacy notice in addition to providing.

In addition, Eric provides the following services:

• Drafts rules for promotions, sweepstakes, and contests throughout the U.S.
• Counsels business regarding potential litigation outcomes for product advertising and labeling claims regulated by the FDA and NAD.
• Counsels businesses regarding website accessibility compliance, including providing advice prior to litigation and post settlement regarding WCAG 2.0 requirements and legal interpretation of compliance efforts.
• Drafts technology agreements for ed-tech providers with focus on data privacy obligations.

Eric served as a clerk for the court and judge below:

Judicial Extern for the Honorable Sandra S. Beckwith in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

Eric is licensed to practice in the following state:

Ohio, 2013

Eric is admitted to practice before the following court:

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, 2015