Gerard M. Stegmaier is an attorney in the Washington, D.C. office of Goodwin Procter LLP where he leads the firm's D.C. privacy and data protection group. He practices technology law with special emphasis in the areas of e-commerce, privacy, intellectual property and the First Amendment. His practice encompasses transactional, regulatory and litigation matters for emerging enterprises as well as Fortune 100 companies. He acts regularly as outside global coordinating counsel for many leading enterprises for privacy and information governance. Mr. Stegmaier also serves as an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Law where he created and has taught one of the first courses on information privacy law for over ten years. Mr. Stegmaier is a magna cum laude graduate of George Mason University School of Law where he was as an editor of the law review. He served as a law clerk to the Hon. Pauline Newman at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.