Mr Bart Lazar > Seyfarth Shaw LLP > Chicago, United States > Lawyer Profile

Seyfarth Shaw LLP
233 SOUTH WACKER DRIVE
SUITE 8000
CHICAGO, IL 60606 - 6448
ILLINOIS
United States
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Work Department

Intellectual Property / Trademark / Advertising & Marketing

Position

Partner

Career

Bart helps clients structure and implement strategies to comply with domestic and international data privacy and security laws and respond to actual and potential security breach incidents. He works with clients to execute innovative social and traditional media promotional programs. He handles copyright, trademark, privacy and new media issues, including advertising, promotion, sweepstakes, marketing, computer software, data use, Internet, employee privacy, cybercrime and entertainment matters.

Bart helps clients identify, protect, commercialize and enforce intellectual property rights. He acts as lead and local counsel in copyright, trademark, counterfeiting and grey market/diversion, false advertising, unfair competition, computer fraud and abuse, and Internet-related litigation, and has obtained numerous ex parte temporary restraining orders and seizure orders to combat piracy. Bart has handled numerous privacy matters before federal and state agencies, including defending the first Internet privacy case brought by the Federal Trade Commission and the first database security breach case brought by the New York Attorney General.

Bart assists clients in investigating cybercrime, trademark counterfeiting, criminal copyright infringement and other white collar crime and has successfully pursued civil litigation (including ex parte seizure, temporary restraining orders and asset restraint orders) to combat white collar crime including obtaining substantial settlements and judgments for clients. Bart’s efforts have also resulted in successful federal and state criminal prosecutions in cybercrime (e.g. hacking, phishing, extortion), trademark counterfeiting and felony theft (e.g. kickbacks).

Memberships

  • Chicago-Kent College of Law, Adjunct Professor
  • International Trademark Association
  • International Association of Privacy Professionals
  • Lawyers for the Creative Arts, Vice President
  • Approved Mediator for Lanham Act Cases – United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois

Education

  • LLM, New York University School of Law Trade Regulation
  • JD, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, With honorsWinner, Local Nathan Burkan Award for Best Copyright Law Article
  • BA, University of Chicago
    Social Sciences

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)

Seyfarth Shaw LLP is experienced in supporting clients in both incident response and a wide array of disputes, including litigation and arbitration. The firm advises on cutting edge technologies, assisting with AI, biometrics, website tracking and the Internet of Things. The team is led from Houston by John Tomaszewski, a privacy specialist with multi-jurisdictional compliance expertise. Bart Lazar works in Chicago, acting on privacy and security matters. Also in Chicago, Jason Priebe focuses on the development of policies for the handling, transfer and disclosure of information. Karla Grossenbacher, who is based in Washington DC, is an expert on workplace privacy, including on data breaches involving employee information. In November 2024, Scott Carlson retired from practice.