Christopher W. Savage

Chris Savage, CIPP/US and CIPT/US, helps companies in communications and data-centric industries navigate legal and regulatory issues involving communications, privacy, and data security. For clients with immediate problems, when compromise is possible, he negotiates solutions that work. When it isn't, he litigates – against the government or private parties, as needed. For clients who can take a longer view, Chris works with regulators and legislators to help build a legal ecosystem where clients can flourish.

Chris brings nearly four decades of diverse experience to every client problem. He has handled issues about competitors entering established markets; technical and economic aspects of network interconnection; deployment of new technology and infrastructure; data security and privacy; and complex issues of cost allocation, financial accounting, and contract interpretation.

To keep up with the constant change in his field, Chris regularly participates in formal and informal discussion forums with other high-level legal and technical professionals; he teaches Internet law at George Washington University and at Catholic University, and Information Privacy Law at Catholic; and he recently completed an article on the economics of consumer privacy for the Stanford Technology Law Review, a leading academic journal addressing complex issues at the intersection of law and technology.