About Fordham CLIP

Tom Norton is the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Information Policy. His research focuses on privacy and data protection law and policy as well legal accountability in software systems. His work appears in both law and technology publications, and he has received support from the National Science Foundation. At Fordham, Tom teaches courses in Information Privacy Law. Tom earned a JD from Fordham University School of Law and served as CLIP’s Privacy Fellow from 2014 to 2016. Prior to returning to CLIP as Executive Director, Tom was a litigation attorney at the law firm Arent Fox LLP in New York City. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Ron Lazebnik is the Academic Director of the Center on Law and Information Policy. He primarily teaches the Samuelson-Glushko Intellectual Property and Information Law Clinic. He has assisted clinic students with a number of significant legal matters, including the filing of amicus briefs in important IP cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In 2012, under his leadership, the clinic became a part of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office pilot programs to allow students to practice before patent and trademark examiners. His academic and scholarly interests include IP law, information law, and Internet law. Before joining Fordham Law, he was in private practice, where he helped represent clients in various matters involving patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and general commercial litigation. He has also assisted in the defense of corporations and government agencies being investigated by the SEC, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and the U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Lazebnik is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where he spent time as a Massachusetts SJC Rule 3:03 student attorney and as the Director of Research and Technology for the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. He also served on the staff of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology and contributed to GartnerG2’s and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s 2005 white paper “Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World.” Prior to law school, he received an MS in electrical engineering from Case Western Reserve University.

Andrea Flink is a Senior Fellow at the Center on Law and Information Policy. Andrea recently earned her LL.M. at Fordham University School of Law, concentrating in Intellectual Property and Information Technology with a focus on Data Privacy. Previously, Andrea was a partner at Winston & Strawn, where she focused her practice on mergers and acquisitions, securities law and general corporate matters. Prior to her time at Winston & Strawn she was an associate in the corporate department at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. She also served as general counsel to Ultrafabrics, LLC on a part-time basis.  Andrea is a former Co-Chair of the Reentry Subcommittee and a Member of the Privacy Subcommittee of the Women in the Legal Profession Committee of the New York City Bar. She is a graduate of Fordham University School of Law, where she was Commentary Editor of the Fordham Law Review, and Boston University's School of Public Communication, where she studied Public Relations and Journalism.