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Jeffrey P. Cunard
Partner
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555 13th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004
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T:
+1 202 383 8043
F:
+1 202 383 8118
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Areas of Practice
Experience
Jeffrey Cunard, managing partner of the Washington, D.C. office, leads the firm’s corporate intellectual property and information technology practices and has broad experience in transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, licenses, joint ventures and outsourcing arrangements. He also works on copyright litigation matters. Mr. Cunard’s practice also encompasses U.S. and international media and telecommunications law, including privatizations and regulatory advice. He is an internationally recognized practitioner in the field of the Internet and cyberlaw.
Mr. Cunard is the author of, and a contributor to, books and articles on communications and intellectual property and technology law, and speaks widely on those subjects. He is the co-author, with firm partner Bruce Keller, of Copyright Law: A Practitioner’s Guide (2001-2008), published by Practising Law Institute. He also is the co-author of the “Obscenity and Indecency,” “Copyright” and “Trademark and Unfair Competition Issues” chapters in Internet and Online Law (K. Stuckey, ed.) (Law Journal Seminars-Press 1999-2008) and annually co-authors a summary of legal developments involving the Internet for the Practising Law Institute’s Communications Law program. He is a major contributor to The Future of Software (1995), published by MIT Press, is a co-author of two books on international communications law, From Telecommunications to Electronic Services (1986) and The Telecom Mosaic (1988), both published by Butterworths, and is on the Board of Editors of e-commerce Law & Strategy. For several years, he taught a seminar at Harvard Law School, “Practical Lawyering: Internet-Related Issues,” and served as co-director of the Clinical Program at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Mr. Cunard is an active participant in community activities and the arts. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (Chair, 2003-2007); serves as Secretary of and is on the Board of Directors of Friends of Khmer Culture; and is Counsel to the College Art Association. He is a past President of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and a past director of both Rhizome.org and the Choral Arts Society of Washington.
Mr. Cunard graduated summa cum laude in English and Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1977 and received a J.D. in 1980 from the Yale Law School, where he was an Editor of the Yale Law Journal. After graduation from law school, he served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Wm. Matthew Byrne, US District Court for the Central District of California.
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Language(s)
English
Bar Admissions
District of Columbia
New York
Education
University of California at Los Angeles,
1977,
B.A.
Yale Law School,
1980,
J.D.
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