LILY LI

Lily Li is a data privacy, AI, and cybersecurity lawyer and founder of  Metaverse Law. She is admitted to practice in California and before the Federal Circuit and holds the CIPP/US, CIPP/E, and CIPM certifications from the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Lily assists clients from startups to multinationals comply with their privacy, cybersecurity, and data breach notification obligations under CCPA, GDPR, NYDFS, COPPA, HIPAA, GLBA, SOX and a variety of other laws and regulations. In addition, Lily holds the GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA) certification for advanced incident response and digital forensics and assists clients through the incident response and breach notification process.

Lily launched the firm in 2018, after recognizing the growing market need for legal services focused exclusively on data privacy and protection. Metaverse Law builds upon Lily’s multidisciplinary legal and consulting background in complex commercial claims, intellectual property matters, and employment disputes. Lily is a regular speaker and author on data privacy and cybersecurity matters.

Prior to founding Metaverse Law, Lily was a commercial and intellectual property litigator at Brown Wegner LLP, advising companies in the high-tech, biotech, e-commerce, and retail sectors on privacy policies and website terms, and intellectual property, trade secret, commercial, and employment claims.

Before joining Brown Wegner and after finishing her law degree at Duke Law School, Lily Li served as an intellectual property consultant and director of marketing and business development at IP Checkups, a patent analytics and valuation firm in Berkeley, California. She advised manufacturers, researchers, and entrepreneurs in the LED, cleantech, and biotech industries. During her time at IP Checkups, Lily co-authored numerous articles and conducted interviews with American Lawyer, Bloomberg, and other media to foster transparency in the patent marketplace.

Expertise

Privacy Notices | Data Protection Policies & Risk Assessments | HIPAA Privacy Policies | Workplace Privacy | Breach Response & Notification | GDPR and DPO Services |

Niche Areas of Law Practice: Privacy and Cybersecurity Law, March/April 2024, GPSOLO, American Bar Association (Vol. 41, No. 2).

AI Generated Deepfakes: Potential Liability and Remedies, January 2024, Orange County Lawyer Magazine (Vol. 66, No. 1).

AI vendor management – human programming for machine learning, October 2023, DataGuidance.

International Insights Article: Privacy Implications for Organizations Using Generative AI, June 2023, DataGuidance.

The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, November 2022, DataGuidance.

Third Country Assessment Guidance Note for California, February 2022, DataGuidance.

Will the Courts Treat Foreign Data Privacy Laws as Fact or Farce in U.S. contracts? Whose Law Will Prevail in Privacy Disputes?, May 2021, Orange County Lawyer Magazine (Vol. 63, No. 5).

Facebook, Patents, and Privacy: Social Media Innovations to Mine Personal Data, September/October 2020, GPSOLO, American Bar Association (Vol. 37, No. 5).

Should Bar Associations Vet Technology Service Providers for Attorneys?, November/December 2019, GPSOLO, American Bar Association (Vol. 36, No. 6).

Privacy Rights in Class Action Lawsuits – Should Putative Class Members Opt-In Before Their Personal Information Is Disclosed in California Consumer Privacy Act Litigation?, May 2019, Orange County Lawyer Magazine (Vol. 61, No. 5).

American Privacy Laws in a Global Context: Predictions for 2018, May 2018, Orange County Lawyer Magazine (Vol. 60, No. 5) [adapted and reprinted as US Privacy Laws in a Global Context: Predictions for the Next Year, September 2018, The Computer and Internet Lawyer (Vol. 35, No. 9)].

Chatbot Contracts: Enforcing TOS Agreements in Computer-Generated Conversations, March 2017, Association of Business Trial Lawyers – Orange County (Spring 2017 ABTL Report).

Help! What Are My (Immediate) Defenses to a Federal Trade Secret Claim?, September 2016, Orange County Lawyer Magazine (Vol. 59, No. 9).

RFAs: The Underutilized Strategy for Recovering Attorney’s Fees, December 2015, Orange County Lawyer Magazine (Vol. 57, No. 1).

Robot Price Wars: Minimum Advertised Pricing (“MAP”) Policies and the Colgate Doctrine in the Era of Smart Web Crawlers, Fall 2015, Federal Bar Association/ Orange County Chapter Newsletter.

Co-author, How Hidden IP Assets Hurt The Entire Patent Community. November 2012, IP360.COM.

Patents compete for priority in the remote-phosphor LED technology space. July/Aug 2012 Issue, LEDS MAGAZINE.

Quoted in Biotech’s wellspring: a survey of the health of the private sector. May 2012, NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY (online edition).

IP Strategy and Considerations for Start-ups: Q&A with IP Checkups IPfolio.com blog.