Michael Simon, Esquire

Michael Simon is an attorney with XPAN Law Partners.  He began his career as a trial attorney in Chicago, where he was an early innovator in using electronic evidence to win cases for his clients.  Michael stepped away from the active practice of law for a number of years to focus on developing legal technology solutions.  Some of these solutions included using Natural Language Processing (“NLP”) technology to recognize and remediate contract clauses that could violate GDPR requirements and to identify and categorize PII/Personal Data in legal documents for GDPR-mandated pseudonymization.  He has also been heavily involved in cross-border data transfer issues, acting as technology counsel for a leading eDiscovery provider.

Michael has returned to the active practice of law in Boston, Massachusetts.  He combines his technology knowledge with his legal experience to create solutions for his clients’ data privacy, cybersecurity, and cross-border data transfer issues.  Michael focuses his work on performing detailed assessments and audits, reviewing and advising on contracts, and drafting policies and procedures for internal and external use.

Michael leverages his many years working with technology vendors to provide clients with unique insight and assistance in vendor requirements, proposals, assessment, selection, and auditing.  Having worked with both sides of the legal and technology worlds, he often serves as a facilitator and even at times as a translator between these disciplines.

Michael is a legal technology thought leader and has made over a hundred presentations on data privacy, data transfer, eDiscovery, and other topics.  He has written dozens of articles on legal technology topics. Notably, Michael is the lead co-author in an article involving artificial intelligence: Lola v. Skadden and the Automation of the Legal Profession, 20 Yale J.L. & Tech. 234 (2018).  He has been an adjunct professor at Michigan State University College of Law and Boston University School of Law.

Michael is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is also certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) as an Information Privacy Professional in both the United States (CIPP/US) and Europe (CIPP/E).

SecureWorld, “Zoom, Remote Tools, Privacy, and Cybersecurity,” recorded on April 21, 2020