David R. Albertson is an associate with Foley & Lardner LLP, and a member of the firm’s Information Technology & Outsourcing Practice.
While attending law school, Mr. Albertson was a summer associate with Foley. Prior to law school, Mr. Albertson gained significant technical experience. He worked as a provisioning engineer for a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) company where he was part of a small team that designed and implemented the nation’s first private line VoIP network. As a member of the team, he was also responsible for vendor management and internal contract monitoring and enforcement of service level agreements. Mr. Albertson provided provisioning routing and system services for IP and telecommunications platforms as a self employed professional as well.
Mr. Albertson earned his law degree from Loyola Law School (J.D., 2010), where he was awarded the Judge Barry Russell Federal Bar Association Award for Excellence in the field of federal practice. While at Loyola, he received a Loyola Law School Academic Scholarship and was a member of the St. Thomas More Law Honor Society. Mr. Albertson received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz (B.A., 2006).
Mr. Albertson is a Certified Information Privacy Professional in Information Technology (CIPP/IT), certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
Mr. Albertson’s recent publications include, “Software as a Service (SaaS) Agreement Checklist” published in PLC Intellectual Property & Technology (co-author, 2012).
Mr. Albertson is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and the American Bar Association, and its Section on Science & Technology Law and committees on Internet Relationships and Cloud Computing, Privacy and Computer Crime, E-Privacy Law, and Open Source Software.
Mr. Albertson is admitted to practice in California and before the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.