Greg Shatan

Country:	USA
Email:	gshatan[at]reedsmith[dot]com
LinkedIn:	[Greg Shatan Greg Shatan]
Twitter:	@gss1958
Currently a member of the GNSO's IP Constituency

Greg Shatan is a Partner at Reed Smith LLP since February 2006, practicing intellectual property, technology and transactional law.. Prior to joining Reed Smith, he was a Partner at Winston & Strawn LLP for 2 years and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP for 10 years. He began his legal career at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where he was an associate for 8 years. He has been involved with INTA and its Internet Committee, where he has served on the DNS and Registration Practice Subcommittee and the new gTLD Subcommittee over the course of 8 years.

ICANN Involvement

Greg is a member of the Intellectual Property Constituency. He has been involved in the following ICANN Working Groups and Drafting Teams:

• Reserved Names WG (2007) • Single Letter Names WG (2007) (sub-WG of Reserved Names WG) (Chair) • Rights Protection Mechanism Ad Hoc Reference Implementation Group (2007) • Temporary Drafting Group on New gTLD Registry Agreement Issues (TDG-Legal) (2010-2011) • IOC/RCRC Protections DT (2011-2012) • IGO-INGO Protections PDP WG (2012-current) • Policy & Implementation Charter DT (2013) • Policy & Implementation WG (current)

Education

Greg has degrees from Wesleyan University (B.A. in Sociology/Psychology and Music) and Columbia University Law School (J.D.). At Columbia, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia-VLA Journal of Law & the Arts. At Wesleyan, he was the President and Music Director of WESU-FM.