People: Bart A. Lazar, Partner
Biography
Mr. Lazar is a partner in the Chicago office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. He assists clients in creating, commercializing and enforcing intellectual property rights, developing and executing domestic and international business transactions, and counseling and litigation in intellectual property, privacy, advertising, promotion and related matters. Mr. Lazar handles copyright, trademark, privacy and new media issues, including advertising, promotion, sweepstakes, marketing, computer software, data use, Internet, employee privacy, cybercrime and entertainment matters. Mr. Lazar acts as lead and local counsel in copyright, trademark, counterfeiting, false advertising, unfair competition, computer fraud and abuse, and Internet-related litigation. Mr. Lazar has handled numerous matters before federal and state agencies, including defending the first Internet privacy case brought by the Federal Trade Commission and the first database security breach case brought by the New York Attorney General.
Mr. Lazar is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell, a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) and an approved mediator for Lanham Act cases for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Mr. Lazar is a partner in the Chicago office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. He assists clients in creating, commercializing and enforcing intellectual property rights, developing and executing domestic and international business transactions, and counseling and litigation in intellectual property, privacy, advertising, promotion and related matters. Mr. Lazar handles copyright, trademark, privacy and new media issues, including advertising, promotion, sweepstakes, marketing, computer software, data use, Internet, employee privacy, cybercrime and entertainment matters. Mr. Lazar acts as lead and local counsel in copyright, trademark, counterfeiting, false advertising, unfair competition, computer fraud and abuse, and Internet-related litigation. Mr. Lazar has handled numerous matters before federal and state agencies, including defending the first Internet privacy case brought by the Federal Trade Commission and the first database security breach case brought by the New York Attorney General.
Mr. Lazar is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell, a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) and an approved mediator for Lanham Act cases for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Education
- LL.M., Trade Regulation, New York University School of Law (1987)
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J.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology (1986)
with honors
Winner, Local Nathan Burkan Award for Best Copyright Law Article -
B.A., University of Chicago (1982)
Social Sciences
Admissions
- Illinois
- New York
Courts
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth and Seventh Circuits
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
- U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
- U.S. District Court for the District of Wisconsin
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