Françoise Gilbert - Lawyer in Palo Alto, CA

Francoise Gilbert is the Founder and Managing Director of the IT Law Group (www.itlawgroup.com),a niche law firm that provides strategic legal counseling and services oninformation privacy and security, cloud computing, and data governance to awide range of global or publicly held companies and selected start-ups.

An internationallyrecognized thought leader and expert in privacy and data protection law,Francoise has been named Best Lawyers2014 San Francisco Lawyerof the Yearfor Information Technology Law. For severalyears, she has been listed in Chambers USA, ChambersGlobal, Best Lawyers in America and Who'sWho in E-Commerce in the areas of information technology and data privacyand security. Additional recognition include «top privacy advisers» (Computerworld Best Privacy Advisers list) and attorneys who matter (Ethisphere).

A dually qualified American Attorney and French Avocat, Françoise regularlyadvises businesses on a variety of information privacy and security and cloudcomputing matters, including compliance with privacy and security laws,development and implementation of policies and procedures, training ofworkforce and company management, and negotiation of high stakes cloudcomputing contracts, among others.In connection with global projects, she assists companies onmultinational compliance efforts, national or global privacy strategies, cloudcomputing contracts, crossborder data transfers, the consolidation of humanresources or customer data, and monitoring policies and procedures.

Francoise regularly manages teams of lawyers across many jurisdictions in order toprovide global companies with assistance spanning several countries, and thetools necessary to adopt and implement worldwide privacy strategies.

Francoise is the primary author and the editor of the referencetwo-volume treatise Global Privacy andSecurity Law, www.globalprivacybook.com (two volumes, 3,500 pages, ApenPublishers / Wolters Kluwer Law and Business) which provides an in-depthanalysis of the data protection laws of 68 countries on all continents. She hasco-chaired the PLI Privacy SecurityLaw Institute since the late 1990's, and launched and co-chaired the Silicon Valley KnowledgeNet of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) for eight years.

She regularly speaks and publishes comments, analysis, andpractical tips regarding information law issues. Some of her comments areposted on her blog www.francoisegilbert.com. Her monthly column on cloud computing legal issues is published on TechTargets SearchCloudSecurity.com.

Francoise has volunteered for 20 years as an Adjunct Professor at the Universityof Illinois at Chicago. She is a frequent lecturer at the San Jose, California, State University Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship and the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois.A founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance, she serves asgeneral counsel of the organization and leads its Legal Committee.

A graduate from Loyola University of Chicago School of Law (JurisDoctor Degree) and the University of Paris (France) (Maitriseen Droit),Francoise is certified as a CIPM, CIPP/US by the InternationalAssociation of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). She holds undergraduate andgraduate degrees in Mathematics and Education from the University of Montpellier (France) andthe University of Paris (France).

Ms. Gilbert is admitted to practice law in the UnitedStates (California Bar and Illinois Bar) and in France (Paris Bar).