Jacob knows that every new client brings a unique and diverse set of needs to each engagement. Some need a firm negotiator who understands their unique operations and interests. Others need a calm advisor to help them respond to a risk, conflict or emergency. All of them want to walk away feeling informed and prepared. Jacob gets to know his clients, exceeds their expectations and teaches them along the way.
Jacob is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and member of the Firm’s Privacy and Data Security Practice Group, where he focuses on cybersecurity, data privacy and emerging technologies. He regularly helps companies respond to local, national and international data breaches. More importantly, he helps clients leverage policies, standard agreements and operational practices to reduce and mitigate risks. Jacob lectures frequently on GDPR, especially its extraterritorial application to U.S. and multinational companies.
Jacob is also a member of the firm’s Tech Transactions Practice Group, where he uses his LL.M. in Space, Cyber, and Telecommunications Law to help clients navigate complicated legal and technical landscapes. He regularly drafts and negotiates software licenses, supply chain agreements and complex transactions in regulated areas such as healthcare and financial services. Jacob particularly enjoys working at the intersection of these practice groups, where he helps his clients turn information assets into valuable services and insights while mitigating privacy and data security risks.
As a certificated private and remote pilot, Jacob is uniquely familiar with drones and the unique legal challenges faced by commercial drone operators in the U.S. He worked extensively on data security, privacy and physical security risks related to drones and counter-drone technology within his LL.M. and has lectured on drone law for law schools, state bar associations and others. Jacob is a member of the ABA Forum on Air & Space Law, as well as its Drone Law, General Aviation and Space Law Committees.
