Robert helps industry leaders and other mature organizations meet emerging legal and regulatory obligations by leveraging enterprise risk management tools and techniques, deploying best-of-breed technology solutions and developing novel tactics, techniques, and procedures. He also helps start-up, mid-market and acquisition-focused companies quickly close compliance gaps. Robert helps clients across industries bring compliant and secure products to market.

Robert is a trusted adviser to the cybersecurity industry. His current and former clients include the counter-cybercrime division of a major technology company, a leading consumer security software company, a multinational managed security services provider and a leading enterprise cybersecurity services provider.

Robert is a lifelong technology enthusiast who wrote his first “hello world” computer program more than 30 years ago. He learned Linux and FreeBSD as an undergraduate and has been a Unix hobbyist since. Between undergraduate and law school, he was a full-stack developer for a leading government contractor. Today, clients turn to Robert for guidance with issues across the technology spectrum, including secure software development, privacy-by-design, process automation, outsourcing and external dependency management, information assurance and resiliency, operations technology, critical infrastructure, AI governance, IT audit and compliance operations.

In his pro bono practice, Robert fights for the confidentiality of abuse victim services by defending VAWA-funded organizations from subpoenas. He also advises start-up and growing non-profit organizations on a broad array of issues.

During law school, Robert was the president of the Student Bar Association and chair of the ad hoc committee to redraft the Honor Code.

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• Helped big-5 technology company expand counter-cybercrime program internationally, leading to multiple groundbreaking botnet takedown operations*
• Represented leading market maker in dispute with departing quantitative analyst regarding return of company information, securing a temporary restraining order on an issue of first impression and successfully defending the TRO on appeal and before a FINRA panel, resulting in favorable settlement*
• Represented forensic services firm in response to law enforcement requests for prior investigative materials and related witness testimony, resulting in indictment of multiple members of foreign military APT group*
• Helped healthcare technology services provider minimize notification obligations after insider data breach by working with law enforcement to secure the exfiltrated data*
• Represented cybersecurity services provider in suit against testing organization for trade secret misappropriation and computer fraud and abuse, prevailing against motion to dismiss on multiple issues of first impression, resulting in favorable settlement*
• Defended domestic violence shelter against subpoena for patient records, successfully protecting all non-public information from disclosure*
• Defended deposition of domestic abuse counselor, prevailing in dispute regarding scope of deposition and further protecting patient records*
• Drafted and prosecuted patent applications on behalf of global semiconductor company covering technologies related to video broadcast protocols, biometrically authenticated communications, device and network security, mobile payments, certificate trust chains, decentralized social networks, and mobile-device user interfaces*

*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott.

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