Jackson Lewis

Joseph J. Lazzarotti is a Partner in the Morristown, New Jersey office of Jackson Lewis LLP. He leads the firm's Privacy, Social Media and Information Management Practice, edits the Firm’s Privacy Blog, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) with the International Association of Privacy Professionals.  He also is a member of the Employee Benefits Counseling and Litigation Practice Group. In short, his practice focuses on the matrix of laws governing the privacy, security and management of data, as well as the impact and regulation of social media.  He also counsels companies on compliance, fiduciary, taxation, and administrative matters with respect to health and welfare plans, and is a member of the Firm's Healthcare Reform Taskforce.

As a part of Mr. Lazzarotti's work in the area of privacy, social media and information management, he counsels multinational, national and regional companies in all industries on the broad array of mandates, best practices and preventive safeguards. For example, he advises health care providers and group health plan sponsors concerning HIPAA/HITECH compliance, as well as retail, health care, entertainment and other companies in developing social media strategies and policies.  His work includes developing written information security programs (WISPs), conducting on-site executive and employee trainings and helping clients through the process of responding to breaches of personal information.  He has also represented companies with respect to inquiries concerning privacy and security from the HHS Office of Civil Rights and other agencies and negotiates numerous business associate agreements and other data privacy and security agreements.

Mr. Lazzarotti's work in the benefits counseling area covers many areas of employee benefits law.  For example, as part of the Firm's Healthcare Reform Taskforce, he advises employers and plan sponsors regarding the establishment, administration and operation of fully insured and self-funded health and welfare plans, which includes counseling concerning the new reform law, as well as assisting in the set up of administrative and other arrangements with third-party administrators, claims administrators and other vendors. He also provides counsel with respect to the design, implementation and operation of severance and fringe benefit plans.  His work often involves day-to-day legal advice concerning employee benefit plan operation and administration and trouble-shooting with respect to errors in operation.

Mr. Lazzarotti speaks and writes regularly on current employee benefits and data privacy and security topics and his work has been published in leading employment and business journals such as Bender's Labor and Employment Bulletin, the Australian Privacy Law Bulletin and the Privacy and Data Security Law Journal.  His views on these issues also have been discussed in a number of publications, including Inside Counsel, The National Law Journal, Financial Times, Business Insurance Magazine, and HR Magazine.

Mr. Lazzarotti served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Laura Denvir Stith on the Missouri Court of Appeals.  He holds a B.B.A. in public accounting, cum laude, from Pace University, and a J.D., with distinction, from the University Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.

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