Primary Job Title Founding Partners Primary Organization 
InfoLawGroup LLP
Location Salt Lake City, Utah, United States Regions Western US Gender Male
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W. Scott Blackmer is one of the Founding Partners of InfoLawGroup LLP. He has practiced information technology law since 1982. Scott has been listed in several peer-reviewed directories of prominent IT lawyers, including the Legal Media Group’s Guide to the World’s Leading Technology, Media & Telecommunications Lawyers.
Formerly a partner in
the Washington, DC and Brussels offices of the firm now known as WilmerHale, Scott is a founding partner of InformationLawGroup and serves on the executive management team of the First Law International legal network (Brussels). He also consults on privacy, data protection, and security issues in association with HR Privacy Solutions (New York) and Jeitosa Group International (San Francisco). Scott now works from a mountaintop home overlooking Salt Lake City (or from a laptop just about anywhere).
A frequent speaker and writer on IT law and information privacy and security issues, Scott has made presentations or taught seminars on these subjects at numerous industry and professional conferences and at the University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, Carnegie-Mellon University, George Washington University, the University of London, the University of Toulouse, the Catholic University of Buenos Aires, the US State Department (Washington, Berlin, Brussels, and Shanghai), the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the International Monetary Fund, the Multilateral Investment Fund, and the Electronic Commerce Promotion Council of Japan.
Scott acts as general counsel to the Trusted Computing Group, XDI.org, and OpenID Foundation, and he counsels other industry associations as well as corporations and individual entrepreneurs. He has advised US federal and state agencies and the European Commission on privacy and security issues, and he currently serves as a privacy advisor to the US Social Security Administration. Scott also arbitrates Internet domain name disputes brought before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva.
Scott has worked on transactions and licensing, compliance issues, litigation, and arbitration matters in over 100 countries. He speaks English and French and has a working knowledge of written Spanish, German, Dutch, Italian, and Portuguese.
Practice Areas
Intellectual property (with a focus on software patent and copyright licensing, technology transfers, trademark and domain names)
Privacy and information security
International transactions and multijurisdictional compliance with laws protecting consumers, employees, distributors, franchisees, or investors
E-commerce, outsourcing, cloud computing, software as a serviceIT standards
Professional Associations
American Bar Association: Information Security Committee; Privacy and Computer Crime Committee
International Security, Trust & Privacy Alliance (ISTPA) (director and officer)
International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
Identity Workshop of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Harvard Law School)
Education
University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall School of Law), JD with honors 1981 (Editor-in-chief, California Law Review)
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, BA with honors 1975
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah (1970-73)
Université de Grenoble, France (1972)
Bar Admissions
District of Columbia
Maryland
Utah
Formerly a registered foreign lawyer in the Law Society of England and Wales and the French Order of the Brussels Bar.
