Ian Ballon, Partner at Greenberg Traurig

Today, my guest is Ian Ballon, a Partner and Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Global Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group. He represents clients in copyright, DMCA, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity, privacy, security, software, database and Internet- and mobile-related disputes and in the defense of data privacy, security breach, behavioral advertising, TCPA and other Internet-related class action suits.

Ian, who splits his time between the firm's Silicon Valley and LA offices, is also the author of the five-volume legal treatise, E-Commerce and Internet Law: Treatise With Forms 2d Edition (Thomson Reuters West 2008 & 2016 Cum. Supp.) and the earlier first edition, which has been cited in state and federal court opinions. Ian holds an LLM from Georgetown Law School, a JD from George Washington University and a BA from Tufts University.