Thomas J. Smedinghoff
Wildman, Harrold, Chicago

Thomas J. Smedinghoff is a partner with Wildman Harrold in Chicago, and a member of the firm's Privacy, Data Security, and Information Law Practice. His practice focuses on the emerging legal issues of e-business and the corporate use and management of information, with an emphasis on electronic transactions, information security, and privacy issues. Mr. Smedinghoff has been actively involved in developing e-business and information legal policy both in the U.S. and globally. He currently serves as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), where he participates in the Working Group on Electronic Commerce and recently completed negotiation of an international treaty titled the United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts. He also chairs the International Policy Coordinating Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Science & Technology Law, and previously was chair of the ABA Electronic Commerce Division and chair of the ABA Section of Science & Technology Law. He is the editor and primary author of one of the first books on the law of e-commerce, titled ONLINE LAW.