Susan Duarte is a partner at Marashlian & Donahue, PLLC, The CommLaw Group. She is a trusted legal advisor to businesses of all sizes, from emerging startups to established Fortune 100 companies. Ms. Duarte provides comprehensive legal counsel in the fields of technology, advertising, data privacy, and consumer protection, with a focus on helping clients navigate complex regulatory landscapes and minimize legal risks. With a career spanning large law firms and in-house counsel roles, she has developed a diverse range of expertise. Ms. Duarte oversees a team of highly skilled attorneys, ensuring they deliver best-in-class legal guidance on consumer protection, advertising claim substantiation, data privacy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence matters. She is known for her proactive and practical approach, working closely with clients to understand business objectives, identify compliance gaps, develop best practices, and develop robust strategies for risk management. Ms. Duarte is passionate about helping businesses harness cutting-edge technologies responsibly, while ensuring they adhere to ever-evolving legal and regulatory standards. By providing clear, actionable legal guidance, she empowers organizations to operate confidently in complex industries and bring innovative products and services to the market. Ms. Duarte was recognized by the Association of Corporate Counsel as "Best In-House Counsel of the Year in 2024." She has successfully defended clients in high-stakes investigations and routine inquiries before numerous regulatory bodies, including the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and state attorneys general. Ms. Duarte is also a seasoned advocate in matters before the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and has extensive litigation experience in both federal and state courts. She earned her B.A. degree from Boston College and her J.D. and Technology Law Institute Certificate degrees from Catholic University.
Peter A. Emmi is a partner at Reed Smith LLP. He is a partner and leader in the technology transactions practice within Reed Smith's Global Corporate Group. He has extensive experience advising corporate clients regarding tech transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, spinoffs, and complex IP transactional matters, in each case in the intellectual property, information technology, cyber security and privacy practice areas. Mr. Emmi is a member of Reed Smith's Emerging Technologies Team and a lead tech transactions partner in the science, engineering, and software space and handles matters all industries and technologies, including matters for clients in diverse technology fields such as computer software, microelectronics, IoT and other Internet technology, blockchain, cryptocurrency. He is also a member of On-Chain: Reed Smith's Crypto & Digital Assets Group which represents clients relating to cryptocurrency and related mining matters as well as matters relating to other digital assets such as tokens and stable coins, and related fractionalization, FinTech, Health/MedTech, InsurTech, information technology systems, telecommunications, media technology, virtual reality, solar, defense and aerospace technology, cyber security, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, data and analytics technology, and data protection. Prior to his legal career, Mr. Emmi gained more than four years of experience as a lead negotiator for IP licenses and agreements for IBM in the Intellectual Property & Licensing (IP&L) of IBM's Headquarters Division and more than 15 years of experience as an engineer and manager for IBM in the Microelectronics Division, during which time, he performed such tasks as card-level electronics design and testing, software development, and semiconductor research and development. He is admitted to practice law in New York, Connecticut, and before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
Eran Kahana is of counsel at Maslon LLP. He is an AI, cybersecurity, and intellectual property lawyer, as well as a fellow at Stanford Law School, a member of the Advisory Board of Stanford Law School's Stanford Artificial Intelligence & Law Society, an adjunct professor of law at the University of Minnesota Law School, and a member of the Scientific Council of the Israeli Association for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence. In his practice, he counsels clients on a wide variety of matters related to AI, cybersecurity, privacy, technology law, trademarks, patents, and copyright issues. Mr. Kahana also serves in a variety of cybersecurity thought leadership roles and works closely with the FBI, Department of Justice, Secret Service, and colleagues from the private and academic sectors to set, promote, and sustain cybersecurity best practices. At Stanford Law School, he writes and lectures on the intersect between law and AI and is a frequent speaker at Stanford's annual Digital Economy Best Practices Conference. He has been cited in Oxford University Professor Marcus Du Satoy's book
The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI and has been interviewed on AI, cybersecurity, privacy, and technology law by
Bloomberg Law, BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio, KABC radio, Minnesota Public Radio,
Twin Cities Business magazine,
Star Tribune,
Minnesota Lawyer,
TheStreet.com,
Quartz magazine, and Stanford University Radio, KZSU FM. He earned his B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and his J.D degree with honors from Hamline University School of Law.
Tyler J. Thompson is a partner at Reed Smith LLP. He advises clients on data privacy and protection, technology contracts and contract processes, websites and mobile apps, digital accessibility, and artificial intelligence. Mr. Thompson offers clients practical and efficient legal counsel, striving to manage costs and risks with business-friendly strategies. With deep experience in digital compliance, he focuses on handling all aspects of a client's website, platform, game, or mobile app to achieve compliance while maintaining the best user experience. Mr. Thompson's practice also focuses on creating enforceable digital agreements with users. He also helps clients reduce website scraping risks. He is also highly knowledgeable about niche privacy considerations such as franchise implications and in-person privacy practices. Mr. Thompson is accredited by the American Bar Association and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) as a privacy law specialist. He is also certified by the IAPP as a fellow of Information Privacy (FIP), Certified Information Privacy Professional for the United States (CIPP/US), Europe (CIPP/E), Asia, (CIPP/A) and Canada (CIPP/C) as well as a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) and Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT). Mr. Thompson is also an ISACA Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE). He is the current chair of the IAPP KnowledgeNet Phoenix Chapter. In the technology space, he counsels on artificial intelligence (including generative AI and LLMs), open source software, digital marketing, software licensing, and SaaS agreements. He is certified by the IAPP as an Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP). Mr. Thompson focuses on hard-to-draft agreements, combining elements of data rights, digital compliance, and emerging technologies. He earned his B.A. and J.D. degrees from University of Colorado, Boulder.
Jacek Wnuk is a principal at Polsinelli. He is a trusted intellectual property advisor to Silicon Valley innovators and global enterprises developing cutting-edge technologies. With deep roots in both engineering and law, Mr. Wnuk helps clients — from venture-backed startups to Fortune 100 companies — secure high-value patent portfolios across sectors like: Large language models and other machine learning and artificial intelligence systems, Autonomous vehicles, including self-driving cars, drones and robotics, 5G cellular networks, mobile devices and wearable technologies, Cybersecurity, cryptography and blockchain infrastructure, Medical devices, biotechnology and biosensor systems, Semiconductor devices, fabrication equipment and manufacturing, Imaging and optics, including cameras, LIDAR and advanced display systems and3D printing, aerospace systems and clean energy technologies. Before entering law, he helped engineer early autonomous vehicle systems under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grand Challenge. Today, Mr. Wnuk translates that technical acumen into robust patent protection and results-oriented IP counseling for next-generation technologies. He has been recognized nationally for his work in intellectual property law. Mr. Wnuk received the American Bar Association's 'On the Rise - Top 40 Young Lawyers' award in 2024, and is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He has also been recognized by
Best Lawyers with the Ones to Watch in America award in Patent Law and IP Law (from 2021 onward) and by
Super Lawyers with the Rising Stars award (from 2021 onward). Mr. Wnuk shares his knowledge regularly at continuing legal education (CLE) events, where he speaks on topics such as artificial intelligence in patent law. He earned his B.S. degree from University of California, Berkeley and his J.D. degree from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.
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