About Richard
Richard Santalesa earned his J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law. He took the tutorial route that many technological know-how and privacy attorneys have followed: law program, then straight into practice areas shaped by fast-shifting technical difference. Those early choices set the arc of a career that bridges traditional highbrow property concerns and more recent questions about information and online communications.
He is admitted to practice within the District of Columbia, Connecticut and New York. Those jurisdictions mirror the combination of federal, state and business matters his work touches. Over the years he has participated in committees and working teams that sit at the intersection of regulation and technological know-how. That involvement has informed each his courtroom perspective and his advisory work.
Santalesa holds the Certified Information Privacy Professional credential from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. The certification is one marker of his curiosity in privacy guidelines, compliance obligations and the insurance policies that govern private data. He has also spent years enticing with peer networks that tackle emerging issues in virtual systems and exchange secret protection.
Professional affiliations were a seen a part of his résumé. He has served in leadership roles within the American Bar Association, which includes vice president positions at the Science & Technology Law Section’s Social Media Committee and the Trade Secrets Committee in Division four. He co-chaired IAPP KnowledgeNet CT from 2013 to 2015. Since 2012 he has been a SCORE licensed business mentor, advising small business clients and marketers on legal and operational questions.
Those committee roles point to habitual themes in his work: social media insurance policies, exchange mystery problems, and the realistic software of privateness regulation for businesses. He has moved between advising organizations on risk management and drafting insurance policies that reply to regulatory developments. His exercise in expert associations has stored him near the debates that form most effective practices in the ones areas.
Santalesa presently operates from SmartEdgeLaw Group. There he offers counsel on privateness adherence, intellectual property concerns tied to technology, and the legal dimensions of social media and trade secrets. He combines credentialed privateness knowledge with realistic committee knowledge to advise clients on each preventive measures and dispute response.
He keeps an active practice that facilities on privacy law, exchange secret matters and legal questions springing up from social media and technological know-how use.
