
Ilan Leonard Selz, LL.M. (Minnesota)
Lawyer, senior associate
Consulting Focus
Data protection & telecommunications law, IT law & digital business, competition, marketing and distribution law
Specialisations
• IT contracts, SaaS agreements, outsourcing agreements
• Advice in the area of FinTech / Insurtech
• Assisting insurance groups with various digitalisation projects (such as connecting voice and text bots, voice assistants in customer communication)
• Supervision of payment services (German Payment Services Supervision Act, ZAG)
• Agile projects
• Protection of trade secrets (German Trade Secrets Act, GeschGehG)
• AdTech
• Cloud computing
• Blockchain applications
• Designing and building AI in compliance with data protection law
• Data protection impact assessments
• Advice in the area of FinTech / Insurtech
• Assisting insurance groups with various digitalisation projects (such as connecting voice and text bots, voice assistants in customer communication)
• Supervision of payment services (German Payment Services Supervision Act, ZAG)
• Agile projects
• Protection of trade secrets (German Trade Secrets Act, GeschGehG)
• AdTech
• Cloud computing
• Blockchain applications
• Designing and building AI in compliance with data protection law
• Data protection impact assessments
Fields
Career
• Lawyer at Schürmann Rosenthal Dreyer Rechtsanwälte since 2018
• Previously: research associate at the Institute for Information and Communication Technology Law at the Humboldt University in Berlin
– Legal training at the Court of Appeals Berlin (Kammergericht Berlin) with work experience at the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry and at various major international law firms (specialisation: compliance, IT and data protection law)
• Master of Laws, University of Minnesota Law School, specialisation in intellectual property and technology law
Other activities:
• Project management of the law firm’s blockchain solutions (Legal IQ)
• Visiting lecturer on the protection of trade secrets, artificial intelligence and law at the TU Dresden’s Institute for Intellectual Property, Technology Law and Media Law (IGETeM)
• Permanent author of the trade journal Privacy in Germany (PinG); co-author of the series “Schlaglichter – ausgewählte Rechtsprechung und Verfahren”
• Previously: research associate at the Institute for Information and Communication Technology Law at the Humboldt University in Berlin
– Legal training at the Court of Appeals Berlin (Kammergericht Berlin) with work experience at the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry and at various major international law firms (specialisation: compliance, IT and data protection law)
• Master of Laws, University of Minnesota Law School, specialisation in intellectual property and technology law
Other activities:
• Project management of the law firm’s blockchain solutions (Legal IQ)
• Visiting lecturer on the protection of trade secrets, artificial intelligence and law at the TU Dresden’s Institute for Intellectual Property, Technology Law and Media Law (IGETeM)
• Permanent author of the trade journal Privacy in Germany (PinG); co-author of the series “Schlaglichter – ausgewählte Rechtsprechung und Verfahren”
Publications
- „Schlaglichter – Ausgewählte Rechtsprechung und Verfahren, PinG, fortlaufend seit Januar 2019“
- Zuordnung und Transaktion von Geschäftsgeheimnissen im Informationszeitalter, DSRITB 2018, 411 (Zweitveröffentlichung: Ping 2019, 21)
- Gesetzentwurf zur Strafbarkeit der sogenannten Datenhehlerei, DSRITB 2015, 915
- Besprechung einer BGH-Entscheidung zum „Skimming“ (mit Felix Rasch), famos 01/2012
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