Charlene Brownlee advises clients on privacy and information management, e-discovery, technology and e-business and digital media matters. Her expertise includes developing record management programs and privacy policies, helping create and implement preservation notice guidelines and processes for e-discovery, and drafting e-business documents such as corporate blog policies and Web site terms and conditions.
Charlene co-authored the legal treatise "Privacy Law" (Law Journal Press) and has been featured in the ABA Journal, Computerworld, Corporate Legal Times, Digital Discovery & e-Evidence, EContent Magazine, Forbes.com, Houston Business Journal, Investor's Business Daily and Lawyer’s Weekly.
Practice Highlights
- Privacy and Information Management
- Development of record management programs, including retention schedules, policies, procedures, training modules and assistance with e-mail and record management technology selection and implementation
- Development of privacy polices to assure compliance with federal and state privacy and data security laws and regulations
- Counsels on EU privacy directives and Canadian privacy legislation
- Counsels on privacy audits and assessments
- Development of data breach notification programs
- E-discovery
- Develops and implements preservation notice guidelines and processes, including for global pharmaceutical, financial and energy companies
- Prepares litigation readiness assessments and programs
- Advises on duty of preservation and avoiding sanctions under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
- Technology, E-business and Digital Media
- Drafts online privacy policies, Web site terms and conditions, and corporate blog policies
- Advises clients regarding CAN-SPAM and similar state statutes
- Drafts and negotiates agreements for the distribution and acquisition of hardware and software
- Negotiates telecommunications service contracts