Mari Frank Interviews Attorney Phil Gordon, Privacy Expert for the Workplace

PHILIP L. GORDON is a shareholder in the Denver office of Littler Mendelson, P.C., the largest law firm practicing exclusively labor and employment law. Mr. Gordon chairs the Firm's Privacy and Data Protection Practice Group. He regularly counsels Fortune 500 companies, as well as medium-sized and small businesses, concerning compliance with recently enacted state data protection laws, the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules and the European data protection laws; security incident response, background checks, workplace monitoring of employee communications, and other privacy and information security issues. In addition, he has substantial experience representing employers in trade secret, wrongful termination, and privacy-related litigation. Mr. Gordon has taught privacy and data security law as an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado School of Law. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Privacy Officers Advisor, the monthly publication of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Mr. Gordon lectures and publishes extensively on privacy and data protection issues. He is co-author of the book "HIPAA Privacy For Employers."