Christopher A. Suarez is a trial and appellate litigator at
Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. He focuses generally
on complex litigation, with an emphasis on technology,
antitrust, and education matters.
Mr. Suarez’s technology practice spans both electronics
and the life sciences, and comprises intellectual property
litigation, licensing, the Internet of Things (IoT),
cybersecurity and privacy, and other technology issues. He has
represented a wide range of clients in high technology
industries, including leading manufacturers of smartphones,
tablets, IoT devices, and semiconductors, as well as clients
in the oil and gas sector. Mr. Suarez has handled IP and
technology cases before several U.S. District Courts, the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the Patent
Trial and Appeal Board. He has participated in international
arbitrations of patent disputes and is a registered
practitioner before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
(PTO).
Mr. Suarez is a member of the American Bar Association (ABA),
the Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA), the
American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Giles Rich
American Inn of Court, and the PTAB Bar Association. Mr.
Suarez was nationally recognized in the “ABA On the Rise—Top
40 Young Lawyer List” by the Young Lawyers Division. He is a
Young Lawyer Fellow of the ABA Intellectual Property Law
Section and serves as a committee leader in the FCBA.
Cindy Cwik is a partner with the San Diego office of Jones Day. She
has extensive experience in complex litigation and class actions,
including mass tort and product liability cases, consumer class
actions, and environmental and securities cases. She has
represented clients in multidistrict litigation proceedings,
arbitrations, mediations, and trials. She has been selected seven
times as a California "Top Female Litigator" by The Los Angeles/San
Francisco Daily Journal. Cindy has considerable experience with
scientific issues and expert witnesses, and she has had significant
victories in high-profile matters involving scientific issues. She
was featured in a front page article in The San Diego Daily
Transcript, which described how her attention to scientific detail
led to courtroom success. In one case, Cindy won motions to exclude
the testimony of five of the plaintiffs' experts and had the claims
of all of the trial plaintiffs dismissed. A journalist described
Cindy as "formidable" and "the mastermind behind the team's savvy
attack." The journalist added that Cindy's "step-by-step
dismantling of [plaintiffs'] case was a study in discipline and
focus." In another case, after a three-week evidentiary hearing on
the science issues, she won motions to exclude the testimony of all
seven of plaintiffs' medical causation experts and won summary
judgment with regard to the claims of the 14 trial plaintiffs Cindy
is the current Chair of the Executive Committee of the Yale Law
School Association and the Co-Editor of the ABA publication
Scientific Evidence Review. She previously served as President of
the San Diego Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and as a
Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference.
Cindy is a frequent lecturer and has made presentations to many
organizations, including the Association of General Counsel and the
National Judicial College. Lucy Thomson brings deep knowledge of
legal and technology issues with complex emerging technologies; law
enforcement, private sector, and government perspectives on
challenging cybersecurity and privacy issues; a large portfolio of
ABA publications she has authored; and experience as a proven ABA
leader.
Ms. Thomson is the founding principal of Livingston PLLC, a
Washington, D.C. law firm.
Through her unique background as an attorney and cybersecurity
engineer, and work at the intersection of law and technology – as a
white collar crime prosecutor and civil rights litigator in the
Criminal and Civil Rights Divisions of the U.S. Department of
Justice, senior principal engineer at CSC, a global technology
company, and Consumer Privacy Ombudsman (CPO) in 35 federal
bankruptcy cases – she is an authority on a broad range of critical
cybersecurity and global data privacy issues.
Recently appointed the CPO in the Celsius Network case (S.D. N.Y.),
one of the largest cryptocurrency bankruptcies, she is responsible
for evaluating the sale of “assets” consisting of sensitive
personal information and has overseen the disposition of more than
350 million electronic consumer records. Her assessment of the work
of the consumer privacy ombudsman and privacy risks in bankruptcy
cases is featured in Sensitive Personal Data for Sale in
Bankruptcy—An Uncertain Future for Privacy Protection, in the
Norton Annual Survey of Bankruptcy Law, 2017 Ed.
She has made significant contributions in the legal profession and
inspired others through her leadership on the D.C. Bar Board of
Governors (two terms), Bar Secretary, and President of the Women’s
Bar Association of D.C. and its Foundation. She has been recognized
by her peers for excellence in legal practice through her election
to membership in the American Law Institute (ALI) and the ABA House
of Delegates (since 2004) and as an elected Alumni Trustee of
Phillips Academy/Andover.
This year she co-authored ABA Resolution 604 on Artificial
Intelligence (AI) that was passed unanimously by the House of
Delegates at the New Orleans mid-year meeting. She co-authored the
election cybersecurity Resolution 118 and two prior cyber
resolutions. She has spoken on dozens of ABA programs. She served
as 2012-13 chair of the Science & Technology Law Section, and a
member of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists at the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
(2009-11).
Ms. Thomson is a founding member of the Cybersecurity Legal Task
Force, an ABA Life Fellow, and has served on the Standing Committee
on the Law Library of Congress and as ABA Advisor to the Uniform
Law Commission. A prolific writer, she is co-editor of The Internet
of Things (IoT): Legal Issues, Policy, and Practical Strategies and
editor of the Data Breach and Encryption Handbook, and a
contributing author on cybersecurity to America Votes! (4th Ed.),
The Cybersecurity Handbook (3d Ed.), Homeland Security and
Emergency Management (3rd Ed.), and Bioinformatics Law.
Internationally, Ms. Thomson served as a Legal Advisor to the
United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic
Business (UN/CEFACT), the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC),
and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). For
APEC, she focused on implementing the APEC Privacy Framework in
Peru, Chile, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and
Vietnam, and presented a report on her capacity-building privacy
work at the senior officials meeting in Jakarta,
Indonesia.
Ms. Thomson is a frequent speaker at technology conferences such as
RSA, the largest security conference in the world. Her
understanding of technology as well as law has made her a go-to
person for educating ABA members as well as the public on
technology issues. Ms. Thomson received a Master’s degree from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 2001, earned the CISSP
and CIPP/US certifications, and holds a J.D. degree from
Georgetown. Her awards for community service include the Heroines
in Technology award from Women in Technology and the March of
Dimes, and the highest alumni Distinguished Service Award from
Andover. An avid sailor, she races sailboats on the Chesapeake Bay
and at Martha’s Vineyard.
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