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The Posner Law Firm

A Litigation, Appellate and Consulting Practice

About Steve Posner

 
 

Steve Posner is admitted to practice law in Colorado, New York and California, and is in private practice in Evergreen, Colorado. He has practiced law since 1993.

Steve provides consulting and expert services for other attorney in the areas of privacy and surveillance law. He has published extensively on these subjects, as illustrated below. The crown jewel of his legal writings is the legal treatise, Privacy Law and the USA PATRIOT Act, a standard resource in law libraries all over the world. (Click here for a list of libraries.) Steve also provides ongoing online expert commentaries and emerging issues analyses for LexisNexis.

Simultaneously, and since law school, Steve has maintaned an active practice in the law of copyrights, trade secrets, business contracts, and business torts.

Steve works in beautiful Evergreen, Colorado, where he lives with his wife, son, and three dogs. In his spare time, he performs on guitar and bass, writes, practices martial arts, and tries to give back to the community.

The Legal Treatise on Post 9/11 National Security, Surveillance, and Privacy Law:

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Release 5, Nov. 2010

Release 6 coming soon!

Now available in the LexisNexis online research system, and in print

  • The New Information Sharing Environment
  • NSA Domestic Surveillance
  • The State Secrets Privilege
  • The FISA Amendments
  • Terrorist Designations, Watch Lists, and Their Consequences
  • Evolving Relationship between Criminal and Intelligence Surveillance
  • Title III v. FISA Surveillance
  • Government/Corporate Information Sharing
  • Federal/Local Government Cooperation
  • Electronic Communications
  • Stored Communications
  • Pen Register/Trap and Trace Devices
  • Tracking Devices as Surveillance Devices
  • Cell Phones
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Data Mining
  • Airline Screening
  • Ports, Transportation, and Related Employment
  • Hazardous Materials Licenses
  • Border Searches (including Laptop Seizures)
  • Asset Blocking and Seizures
  • Airline Screening
  • Financial Surveillance
  • Non-Citizen Rights
  • Extraordinary Renditions

...and more.

 

LexisNexis Online Commentaries:

mOn Statutes:

  • Posner on The Obtain/Use Surveillance Dichotomy (Attached to Wiretap and Electronic Communications Privacy Acts - 18 U.S.C. 2510-2522, 2701-2702; Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Actt - 50 U.S.C. 1801 - 1811)
  • Posner on Mayfield v. United States (Suppression of Evidence Derived from Intellience Investigations in Criminal Prosecutions) (Attached to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - 50 U.S.C. 1801 - 1811)

mOn Cases:

  • Posner on Herring v. United States (Exclusionary rule; PATRIOT Act; "Fall of the Wall" Between Intelligence and Criminal Investigations)
  • Posner on United States v. Alvarez-Machain (Abduction and rendition to the U.S.)
  • Posner on Al-Haramain Islamic Found., Inc. v. Bush (Terrorist Designations; Asset Blocking; FISA Pre-emption; State Secrets Doctrine)
  • Posner on Arar v. Ashcroft (State Secrets Doctrine; Extraordinary Renditions)
  • Posner on El-Masri v. United States (State Secrets Doctrine; Extraordinary Renditions)

 

Other Legal Publications:
  • But Judge, I Got it From the ‘Net’!”—The Admissibility of Internet Evidence, The Colorado Lawyer (Oct. 2002)

  • Questions Beyond the Scope: Defending Against the Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(b)(6) Sneak Attack, The Colorado Lawyer (July 1997) (with Roger L. Wilson)

  • Can a Computer Language be Copyrighted? The State of Confusion in Copyright Law, Computer/Law Journal (1991) [This paper won awards in the Nathan Burkan and Computer Law Writing Competitions.)

Recent Litigation Successes:

  • 2009 - Six figure settlement
  • 2008 - $1.2 million trial victory, w/ subsequent $1 million settlement

 

Other Books:

mWith Nancy E. Friedman:

Who Needs It?

Tax-Exempt Organizations In Your Neighborhood That Need What You Have To Donate

MBD Publishing, see www.whoneedsit.us

Available in print and e-book

Buy Now

 

Coming Soon:

Eagle Eyes:

A Citizen's Primer on Post-9/11 American Surveillance, Privacy and Law

How the Government, Marketers and Thieves, Get and Use Your Personal Information-and What You Can Do About It

 

 

 

 

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