Changes

|twitter    =  

|twitter    =  

|facebook  =

|facebook  =

|linkedin  = [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alex-urbelis/1/aab/25a Profile]

|linkedin  = http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alex-urbelis/1/aab/25a  

|userbox      =  

|userbox      =  

}}

}}

'''Alex Urbelis''' is a lawyer specializing in IP law, domain names, online privacy, and [[New gTLD Program|new gTLDs]], and has extensive experience with portfolio domain management and [[UDRP]] proceedings.<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alex-urbelis/1/aab/25a Alex Urbelis, LinkedIn.com. Updated 2015 June 8.]</ref> He is currently Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Legal Counsel at Richemont in New York City.<ref name="linkedin"></ref>, and was formerly an Associate with Steptoe (Steptoe & Johnson LLP).<ref>[[ICANN 45]] Interview</ref><ref name="linkedin"></ref>

'''Alex Urbelis''' is a lawyer specializing in IP law, domain names, online privacy, and [[New gTLD Program|new gTLDs]], and has extensive experience with portfolio domain management and [[UDRP]] proceedings.<ref name="linkedin">[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alex-urbelis/1/aab/25a Alex Urbelis, LinkedIn.com. Updated 2015 June 8.]</ref> He is currently Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Legal Counsel at Richemont in New York City.<ref name="linkedin"></ref>, and was formerly an Associate with Steptoe (Steptoe & Johnson LLP).<ref>[[ICANN 45]] Interview</ref><ref name="linkedin"></ref>

Mr. Urbelis is a member of the [[IAPP|International Association of Privacy Professionals]], [[INTA]], [[ISOC]] and New York University's Privacy Research Group.

Mr. Urbelis is a member of the [[IAPP|International Association of Privacy Professionals]], [[INTA]], [[ISOC]] and New York University's Privacy Research Group.

Pro bono services include appellate representation in immigration and death penalty proceedings as well as extensive litigation on behalf of indigent tenants.<ref>[http://www.steptoe.com/professionals-703.html Professionals, Steptoe.com]</ref>

Pro bono services include appellate representation in immigration and death penalty proceedings as well as extensive litigation on behalf of indigent tenants.<ref>[http://www.steptoe.com/professionals-703.html Professionals, Steptoe.com]</ref>

===Background===

===Background===

Alex Urbelis recognized the possibilities and need for IT law early on, as he studied as a full-time undergraduate while simultaneously working nearly full-time as a software programmer. He noted the tension technology stirs between free speech and the public interest, and it became the legal area he wanted to explore further. Notable experience includes a 1L internship with the Army JAG Corps, a full-time externship with a Vermont Supreme Court Justice, and a research position at Dartmouth's Institute for Security Technology Studies, which is a national center for cyber security and counterterrorism research and analysis. He also participated in a graduate fellowship in the office of General Counsel of the CIA, where he provided legal advice to the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, now known as the National Counterterrorism Center.<ref>[http://www.vermontlaw.edu/Career_Paths/Alumni_Profiles/Alexander_Urbelis.htm Alexander Urbelis, VemontLaw.edu]</ref>

Alex Urbelis recognized the possibilities and need for IT law early on, as he studied as a full-time undergraduate while simultaneously working nearly full-time as a software programmer. He noted the tension technology stirs between free speech and the public interest, and it became the legal area he wanted to explore further. Notable experience includes a 1L internship with the Army JAG Corps, a full-time externship with a Vermont Supreme Court Justice, and a research position at Dartmouth's Institute for Security Technology Studies, which is a national center for cybersecurity and counterterrorism research and analysis. He also participated in a graduate fellowship in the office of General Counsel of the CIA, where he provided legal advice to the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, now known as the National Counterterrorism Center.<ref>[http://www.vermontlaw.edu/Career_Paths/Alumni_Profiles/Alexander_Urbelis.htm Alexander Urbelis, VemontLaw.edu]</ref>

He has been featured as an expert on cyber security issues on television and radio programs.

He has been featured as an expert on cybersecurity issues on television and radio programs.

Mr. Urbelis’s dissertation from Oxford received a distinction from the Law Faculty; it focused on communication carriers’ compliance and privacy issues arising from the European Union’s new data retention directive.<ref>[http://www.steptoe.com/professionals-703.html Professionals, Steptoe.com]</ref>

Mr. Urbelis’s dissertation from Oxford received a distinction from the Law Faculty; it focused on communication carriers’ compliance and privacy issues arising from the European Union’s new data retention directive.<ref>[http://www.steptoe.com/professionals-703.html Professionals, Steptoe.com]</ref>

* B.A., Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook

* B.A., Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook

* J.D., Vermont Law School

* J.D., Vermont Law School

* BCL, Law, University of Oxford<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alex-urbelis/1/aab/25a Alex Urbelis, LinkedIn.com]</ref>

* BCL, Law, University of Oxford<ref name="linkedin"></ref>

==References==

==References==

{{reflist}}

{{reflist}}