Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP

Mark E. Schreiber's practice is in management defense of employment, privacy law, and compliance matters, including internal company investigations involving alleged fraud, financial improprieties, data breaches, health care, anti-kickback, and other misconduct. He advises boards and special board committees on these matters. He has defended innumerable wrongful termination, sexual harassment, discrimination, privacy, employment contract, non-competition, and defamation matters at all levels, including in the trial and appellate courts.

He is the Chair of the Firm's Privacy and Data Protection Group Steering Committee and also Chair for Privacy Matters of the World Law Group, an international affiliation of 52 large law firms in some 70 countries.  Mr. Schreiber was the recipient of the 2012 World Law Group Practice/Industry Group Leader of the Year Award in recognition of his privacy work.  Edwards Wildman's Privacy & Data Protection Group is nationally recognized in the 2012 US Legal 500 and the 2012 Chambers & Partners USA Guide.

He helped found and was Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association's Privacy Committee. Among his practice areas are E.U. data protection and cross-border data transfer, including adapting Sarbanes-Oxley hotlines abroad.  He co-authored the ABA SOX text chapter on this subject. He has handled a number of credit card breaches, HIPAA, medical, Gramm Leach, U.S. Safe Harbor and E.U. privacy and security matters for financial services, biotech, high tech, and universities and colleges in the U.S., E.U. and Asia. He has practiced extensively in data breach management, compliance and privacy policy design, workplace e-mail and Internet matters, employee on-line misconduct and responses to government electronic searches.

Mr. Schreiber has litigated, written and lectured extensively on employment and privacy law in Massachusetts, and is credited by some with having helped develop the recent jurisprudence in this field.  He co-chaired the Massachusetts Bar Association Subcommittee that assisted the MCAD in drafting its widely recognized "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Guidelines." Mr. Schreiber was invited to speak to the Massachusetts Flaschner Judges Conference in 2004 on jury instructions and developments in employment law. He has authored a number of important articles, including employer monitoring of e-mail and Internet traffic, investigating and defending sexual harassment claims, employment discrimination law, wrongful termination claims, non-competition agreements, "customer stealing," theft of confidential information, and physician employment problems. His articles have been cited by the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court and elsewhere. He is listed in the Best Lawyers in America (Labor and Employment Law Section) and has been for over 25 years, Massachusetts Super Lawyers (Employment Defense) and Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition (Employment Litigation: Defense). In 2011 and 2012, Mr. Schreiber was listed in The International Who's Who of Internet, e-Commerce & Data Protection Lawyers.

Mark E. Schreiber is Chair of the Firm's Privacy and Data Protection Group Steering Committee, a nationally recognized practice in the 2011 US Legal 500, and also Co-Chair for Privacy Matters of the World Law Group, an international affiliation of large law firms. As Chair of the World Law Group Privacy Matters Group, Mr. Schreiber was the recipient of the 2012 World Law Group Practice/Industry Group Leader of the Year Award. He helped found and was Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association's Privacy Committee. Among his practice areas are data breach management, state data security regulations, EU data protection and cross-border data transfer, including adapting Sarbanes-Oxley hotlines abroad, and he co-authored the ABA text chapter on this subject. He has handled a number of security and data breach cases, HIPAA, medical, Gramm Leach, U.S. Safe Harbor and EU privacy matters, including for financial services, biotech and high tech companies, and universities and colleges in the U.S., EU and Asia. He has practiced extensively in privacy, data breach and compliance policy and design, workplace e-mail and Internet matters, employee on-line conduct and responses to government electronic searches, including US government agencies.

Mr. Schreiber has had a long career of representing and defending entities in a variety of employment, compliance and privacy matters. He has advised a number of boards, special committees of boards and in-house counsel on internal investigation matters, including those involving alleged employee misconduct, fraud and abuse, anti-kickback and related matters. He was asked to address the Flaschner Judicial Institute (for the Massachusetts judiciary) in 2004 on jury instructions and employment law developments. His articles have been cited by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and elsewhere. He is listed in the Best Lawyers in America (Labor and Employment Law Section) and has been for over 20 years, and Massachusetts Super Lawyers (Employment Defense) and has been recognized in the Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition (Employment Litigation: Defense). In 2011, Mr. Schreiber was listed in The International Who's Who of Internet, e-Commerce & Data Protection Lawyers.

Mark E. Schreiber's practice is in defense of employment, healthcare compliance, FCPA and privacy law matters including data breaches, internal company investigations involving alleged fraud and abuse, anti-kickback, and other misconduct. He advises boards and special board committees on these matters. He has assisted numerous pharma and medical device science companies, healthcare facilities and physicians in marketing compliance, anti-kickback, research fraud, HIPAA and medical privacy areas. This encompasses structuring emerging drug marketing rollout, healthcare related businesses, due diligence and compliance plans, including conflict of interest, grants, honoraria, consulting and other outside arrangements. He has interfaced with the OIG, FBI, US Attorney offices and other agencies in investigations of such conduct and arrangements.

Mr. Schreiber has helped construct and vet numerous HIPAA, privacy, and medical disclosure programs for these entities, including in transactions. He is Chair of the Firm's Privacy Group Steering Committee, a nationally recognized practice in the 2011 US Legal 500, Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association's Privacy Comm., and also Co-Chair for Privacy Matters of the World Law Group, an international affiliation of large law firms. As Chair of the World Law Group Privacy Matters Group, Mr. Schreiber was the recipient of the 2012 World Law Group Practice/Industry Group Leader of the Year Award. Among his practice areas are E.U. and global data protection and cross-border data transfer, including of clinical data abroad and in multi-national investigations, and in adapting Sarbanes-Oxley and FCPA whistleblower hotlines abroad. He has handled a number of related medical device, pharma and life science matters in Europe, including Eastern Europe, and parts of Asia.