ABA Section of Science & Technology Law Nominees For 2017–2018 Section Officer and Council Positions

David Z. Bodenheimer will automatically succeed to the position of Section Chair at the completion of the ABA Annual Meeting in New York.

Chair-Elect

William B. Baker

Vice-Chair

Julie A. Fleming

Secretary

Katherine E. Lewis

Delegate

Ellen J. Flannery

Council

Joan Bullock

Carol Henderson

Jay Johnson

Jae Pak

Incoming Section Chair

David Z. Bodenheimer is a Government Contracts Group partner and litigator in Crowell & Moring LLP’s Washington, D.C., office. He brings 35 years of hands-on experience in doing business with the federal government and has been nationally recognized by Chambers USA and Who’s Who Legal, as well as by Thomson Reuters’ D.C. Super Lawyers in the government contracts arena.

With more than 100 days in the courtroom and over 60 protest litigations, David handles and resolves the full range of knotty issues confronting clients selling to the government. See, e.g., United States v. United Techs. Corp., 782 F.3d 718 (6th Cir. 2015) ($657 million False Claims Act litigation); BAE Sys. Info. & Elec. Sys. Integration Inc., B-408565 et al., Nov. 13, 2013, 2013 CPD ¶ 278 (NextGen airborne jammer protest litigation); Supreme Foodservice GmbH v. United States, 109 Fed. Cl. 369 (2013) (injunctive action on $8 billion acquisition); Health Net Fed. Servs., LLC, B-401652.3 et al., Nov. 4, 2009, 2009 CPD ¶ 220 ($16 billion protest litigation); Wynne v. United Techs. Corp., 463 F.3d 1261 (Fed. Cir. 2006) ($299 million defective pricing trial/appeal). He authored the Defective Pricing Handbook (Thomson Reuters 2010–2016) and regularly lectures on government contracting, pricing, and fraud matters.

Recognized by Chambers USA as “a leading lawyer within the cybersecurity space,” he has advised and trained Fortune 500 companies on cyberlaw and security (Internet of Things, FISMA, NIST, cloud, FedRAMP, breaches, network audits, and cyber disputes), handled protest litigation on cyber issues, testified before Congress on cybersecurity, taught cybercontracting for Federal Publications, and published extensively.

He currently serves as the ABA SciTech Section’s Chair-Elect, Vice-Chair of the Long Range Planning Committee, and member of the Internet of Things National Institute Planning Committee. His previous SciTech leadership roles include Co-Chair of the Security, Privacy, and Information Law Division and Co-Chair of the Homeland Security Committee. He has also served as a Public Contract Law Section Committee Co-Chair (Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Data Protection) and as a member of the ABA President’s Cybersecurity Legal Task Force.

Section Chair-Elect

William B. Baker is a partner in the Potomac Law Group, PLLC, a Washington, D.C.–based law firm. He has practiced for more than 30 years in the areas of communications, technology, and postal law, with particular interest in privacy, information law, and marketing communications. He is a frequent author and lecturer on privacy and postal matters. He previously practiced in the Washington, D.C., law firm Wiley Rein LLP.

Bill currently serves as Vice-Chair of the SciTech Section, Chair of the Administration Division, Co-Chair of the Long Range Planning Committee, Co-Chair of the Internet of Things National Institute Planning Committee, and member of the Finance Committee. He served as Budget Officer of the Section from 2012 through 2015 and as Assistant Budget Officer prior to that. Bill has served on the Section’s Council since 2008. He has chaired or co-chaired several Section committees, including the Committee on Telecommunications and Information Services from 1998–2002 and the E-Privacy Law Committee from 2003–2008. Bill is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the Board of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists (NCLS) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

He has written numerous articles on privacy and technology issues, contributed to several Section publications, and served as a moderator or panelist on a number of Section programs. Bill chaired the Government Affairs Committee of the Northern Virginia Technology Council from 2001–2005 and served on Advisory Committees to the Virginia General Assembly’s Joint Commission on Technology and Science from 1997–2005.

Bill holds a BA in Economics, and a JD, both from the University of Virginia. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.

Section Vice-Chair

Julie A. Fleming has been active with the SciTech Section since 1997, when she served as Chair of the Biotechnology Law Committee. Her subsequent SciTech positions include Council member, Chair of the Life and Physical Sciences Division, member of the Board and Editor-in-Chief of The SciTech Lawyer, Secretary and Vice-Chair of the Section, and member of the Long Range Planning Committee and the ABA Special Committee on Bioethics and the Law.

Julie has organized several Section-sponsored programs, including “Can You Grow That Body Part?” (ABA Annual Meeting), “The SciTech Edge: Career and Business Development at the Intersection of Law, Science, and Technology” (SciTech teleconference), and the Presidential Showcase Program “Seven Secrets Every Lawyer Must Know to Thrive, Even in a Recession.” She also authored “Biotechnology Patent Litigation for the Non-Patent Attorney,” a chapter in Biotechnology and the Law.

Julie practiced law for over a decade, focusing on patent litigation, before launching the Atlanta-based legal business development consultancy now known as Fleming Strategic. She is the author of three books: The Reluctant Rainmaker: A Guide for Lawyers Who Hate Selling, Seven Foundations of Time Mastery for Attorneys, and Legal Rainmaking Myths: What You Think You Know about Business Development Could Kill Your Practice. A Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, Julie holds a JD from the Emory University School of Law, a BS from Georgia State University, a BA from Vanderbilt University, and a certificate in leadership coaching from Georgetown University.

Section Secretary

Katherine E. Lewis concentrates her practice in the intersection of information technology, new media, and visual arts and culture. Katherine’s clients include enterprise and start-up technology firms, entertainment companies, artists, writers, museums, foundations, cultural organizations, and other nonprofit organizations. Katherine advises clients on a variety of corporate, intellectual property, and technology-related matters, including digital and new media, software and technology licensing, software development, intellectual property transactions, collection and use of data, machine learning development and licensing, cultural property transactions, artist commissions, publishing agreements, acquisitions and loan agreements, collections and archival digitization, and public-private partnerships.

Prior to joining Meister Seelig & Fein LLP in 2015, Katherine was an Attorney-Advisor with the Smithsonian Institution’s Office of Contracting; she currently serves as Trustee on the Bronx Museum of Art’s Board of Trustees. She is a regular speaker for ABA programs and regional and national museum associations on legal issues facing museums, specifically as they relate to intellectual property and information technology, and has published on topics including intellectual property, information technology in museums, cultural property, social media, and copyright law.

Katherine was recently appointed to serve on the NCLS board, a 14-member joint standing committee of the AAAS, exploring the intersection of human rights and cultural heritage preservation issues through the application of science and technology. She is Co-Chair of the SciTech Section’s Museums and the Arts Law Committee and a member of the Global Center of Innovation for the i2M Standards’ Jurisprudence Working Group.

Section Delegate

Ellen J. Flannery is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Covington & Burling LLP and immediate past Co-Chair of the firm’s global food and drug law practice group. She advises clients on regulatory strategies and compliance for medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and biological products.

Ellen has written articles on Food and Drug Administration regulation, and has taught food and drug law as an adjunct faculty member at three law schools. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Covington’s Inside Medical Devices blog.

Within the SciTech Section, Ellen has served in several capacities, including as Section Delegate since 1993, Section Chair (1992–1993), and Co-Chair of the Committee on Opportunities for Minorities and Women (1996–2002). Ellen was the first recipient of SciTech’s First Annual Chair’s Award in 2015 for her significant and outstanding contributions to the Section. She has been Chair of the Conference of Section and Division Delegates since 2003.

She is currently a member of the Select Committee of the House, has served as a member and Chair of the ABA Coordinating Group on Bioethics and the Law (1991–2000) and the House Technology and Communications Committee (2010–2011), and has served as a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Audit, ABA Standing Committee on Constitution and Bylaws, ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, and ABA Commission on Governance. Ellen is the current President of the Board of Directors of the American Bar Foundation, and is a Life Leadership Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, past Chair of the Fellows, and past Chair of the Fellows Advisory Research Committee.

Ellen received her JD from Boston University School of Law and AB from Mount Holyoke College.

Section Council

Joan Bullock is President and Dean of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California, effective July 1, 2017. With almost 30 years of law school experience as an educator and administrator, Joan was most recently a senior founding faculty member at the Florida A&M University College of Law in Orlando, Florida. She served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2015–2016 and the Associate Dean of Teaching and Faculty Development from 2012–2015. As a strong proponent of diversity, in 2016 Joan organized Talk2Ten—an initiative designed to build career-enhancing relationships between lawyers and historically black college and university (HBCU) law students in an online networking event.

Joan is Vice-Chair of the SciTech Section’s Membership and Diversity Committee, a presidential appointee to the ABA Council for Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Educational Pipeline, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Joan served as the 2012–2013 Chair of the ABA Law Practice Division, a past Chair and current member of the Law Practice Division’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and a former member of the Division’s Council. She is the author of How to Achieve Success after the Bar Exam: A Step-by-Step Action Plan published by the ABA Law Practice Division.

Joan is a Michigan lawyer and CPA who has practiced before the United States Tax Court and has assisted start-up enterprises with outsourced general counsel and CFO services and law firms with business advisory services.

Carol Henderson is the founding director of the award-winning National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology and the Law (NCSTL) at Stetson University College of Law. She has planned and managed NCSTL’s development since 2002. NCSTL provides the only comprehensive searchable database of science, technology, and law in the world (www.ncstl.org).

Recognized as an international authority on forensic science and law, Carol has presented more than 300 lectures and workshops worldwide on the topics of scientific evidence, courtroom testimony, and professional responsibility. She has more than 90 publications on scientific evidence, law, and ethics. She was an editor of the Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine (2005), which received the Minty Prize and awards from the British Medical Association. She co-edited The Future of Evidence: How Science & Technology Will Change the Practice of Law (ABA 2011). Her most recent book is Scientific Evidence Review: Admissibility and Use of Expert Evidence in the Courtroom, Monograph No. 9 (ABA 2013). Her most recent articles are “Expert Witness Qualifications and Testimony,” in the Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine (2d ed. 2015), and “Sleuthing Scientific Evidence Information on the Internet,” 106 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 59 (2016).

Carol served as President of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) (2008–2009), on the Journal of Forensic Sciences editorial board, and on the scientific and technical working groups for the National Institute of Justice. She serves on the AAFS International Affairs Committee and the AAFS Think Tank, which keeps abreast of new technology developments and their impact on the forensic science community. She served as Co-Chair of the Life and Physical Sciences Division of the SciTech Section. Carol is the Deputy-Editor-in-Chief of The SciTech Lawyer. She also serves as a member of the National Judicial College’s Scientific Evidence course faculty. She has appeared in the international and national media as a legal analyst and testified before Congress regarding the National Academy of Sciences report on forensic science.

Carol received her BA from the University of Florida and her JD from George Washington University. Prior to receiving her JD, she worked for the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice Criminal Division. She began her legal career as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C.

Jay Johnson is a Partner in Jones Day’s Cybersecurity, Privacy & Data Protection practice. He has 15 years of combined government and law firm experience in litigation, investigations, and regulatory compliance. Having tried 10 cases to juries in federal court, he represents companies facing complex litigation and advises on corporate compliance measures, with an emphasis on data privacy, cybersecurity, internal investigations, and white collar issues. Jay also co-founded Jones Day’s Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, a bi-monthly publication produced by a global 30-attorney team.

Prior to joining Jones Day, Jay was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Texas and the district-wide coordinator for computer hacking and intellectual property crimes. In that capacity, he guided the district’s preparation for and response to cyber and intellectual property crime, and he counseled prosecutors on collecting electronic evidence. Jay also led numerous trial and investigations teams, involving fraud, identity theft, and other federal crimes. He received the Justice Department’s Director’s Award for Superior Performance as lead trial counsel in the prosecution of a large-scale mortgage fraud scheme, and he traveled to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Croatia to train local judges and law enforcement personnel on financial investigation techniques.

Jay is an adjunct faculty member at the SMU Dedman School of Law, where he teaches data privacy and cybersecurity. He is Chair of the Dallas Bar Association’s Science & Technology Law Section and serves as Vice-Chair of the SciTech Section’s Privacy and Computer Crime Committee. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas.

Jay is a former clerk for Judge Raymond C. Clevenger III at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and for Judge Monti L. Belot in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. Prior to his clerkships, he graduated with High Distinction from the University of Iowa College of Law and with Honors from Kansas State University, with a degree in mechanical engineering.

Jae Pak is a senior attorney at Microsoft Corporation, where he provides primary legal support for the Cloud and Enterprise business division, focused in the areas of Azure cloud computing services, identity and access management, and Internet of Things–related technologies.

Jae counsels his clients on a wide range of legal issues concerning the development and marketing of cloud services, software, and related technologies. His practice areas include licensing, intellectual property, privacy, regulatory compliance, cybersecurity, open source software, technology acquisitions, and complex intellectual property transactions.

Jae is currently a Vice-Chair of the ABA SciTech Internet of Things Committee and a member of the ABA Identity Management Legal Task Force. He is also an active member of the Microsoft legal department diversity committee efforts, including its active participation in the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA), where he currently serves as Co-Chair of the IP In-House Counsel Subcommittee.

Jae has also spoken at various CLEs in the areas of cloud computing and Internet of Things technologies for the ABA, NAPABA, National Association of Minority & Women Owned Law Firms, and International Association of Korean Lawyers.

Jae earned a BA in political science from the University of Washington and JD cum laude from Seattle University.