Steven Miles Hoffer

Steve Hoffer consults with clients on legal solutions, growth strategies, corporate regulatory compliance, data privacy, and effective safeguards against risks and liability.  He helps clients negotiate commercial agreements, improve marketing programs, process personal data, and enter new markets.  He addresses business practices that concern innovation, sales, transactions, consumer protection laws, and remedies.  Since businesses grow with trust and trust only grows with data protection, he assists business clients align their data governance approaches. 

Through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), Steve is a Certified Information Privacy Professional in both the U.S. and the E.U. (CIPP/US and CIPP/E), and has taught courses in international law.  His familiarity with information privacy, regulated industries, and cross-border commerce enables him to assist clients by clarifying legal duties, guiding product development, drafting privacy policies, and managing the lifecycle of personal information.  

Different data privacy laws in the U.S. commonly protect consumers, employees, health care patients, banking customers, students, and children differently.  The U.S.  data privacy laws include Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act, sectoral laws like the ECPA, TCPA, HIPAA, HITECH, GINA, GLBA, FCRA, FACTA, FDCPA, FERPA, and COPPA, and state laws.  Related areas of his law practice concern sales, IP, licensing, communications, free speech, competition, trade, and international law.  As outside counsel, he offers a more robust attorney-client privilege in some contexts.  This may be attorney advertising under local law.