David Bender
White & Case LLP, New York

David Bender recently retired as Chair of the global Privacy practice of White & Case LLP. He has extensive experience in litigation, transactional matters and counseling in the areas of Privacy, Intellectual Property, and Information Technology Law. Before the divestiture of AT&T, he served as head of AT&T's IP Litigation Department, where he was responsible for all IP litigation brought by or against any Bell System company. He is a past President of the International Technology Law Association (formerly known as the Computer Law Association.)

David is the author of COMPUTER LAW, a five-volume treatise published by Lexis-Nexis Matthew Bender and updated twice annually. He is also a member of the Editorial Boards of Computer Lawyer, Cyberspace Lawyer, and Computer Technology Law Report, and has written numerous articles in the fields of IT Law, IP Law, Privacy Law and Antitrust Law. David has made over 250 presentations on various topics in those fields at seminars across the United States and in some 16 other countries, and is the author of several dozen papers published in diverse seminar handbooks.

In a previous life, David served as an engineer with Ford Aerospace, and as a mathematician with Hughes Aircraft.