Marc J. Zwillinger

Marc J. Zwillinger is a partner in the Washington office of Kirkland & Ellis, the leader of the firm's Cyberlaw & Information Security practice group and a member of the Firm's Technology Committee.

Prior to joining Kirkland & Ellis, he worked in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice. At the Department of Justice, he coordinated the investigations of several high-profile computer crime cases including the 1997 penetration of U.S. military computer systems by an Israeli hacker ("Solar Sunrise"), the Denial of Service Attacks that hit e-commerce sites in February 2000, and the Love Bug virus. He also investigated and prosecuted cases involving violations of the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 (the "EEA") and was responsible for coordinating the Department of Justice's approval for charges filed nationwide under the EEA. He personally represented the government in United States v. P.Y. Yang, et al., the first EEA case successfully tried in the United States. He has also trained hundreds of federal prosecutors and agents at the FBI Academy and at the Department of Justice's National Advocacy Center.

In private practice, he now provides advice and counsel on protecting the confidentiality, availability and integrity of proprietary information, and conducts internal investigations and litigation for companies that have suffered a breach of computer security or loss of trade secret technology. He also helps companies help assess and limit their risk resulting from e-commerce related activities. He has lectured to a wide variety of audiences on topics related to computer crime and economic espionage and serves as an Adjunct Professor of Cyberlaw at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America. He was recently named co-chair of the Computer and High-Tech Crime Subcommittee of the White Collar Crime Committee of the American Bar Association.

He received a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1994 and then clerked for Judge Mark L. Wolf of the United States District Court, District of Massachusetts. Prior to practicing law, Mr. Zwillinger received a Bachelors degree in Political Science from Tufts University in 1991.

Marc has received extensive coverage in the media for his involvement in computer crime law.

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