Jessica Lipson’s practice focuses on technology transactions, transactional intellectual property work, and privacy and data security matters. Jessica helps her clients to understand and mitigate the risks of using third party technology and engaging with technology vendors, manage and enforce their domestic and foreign trademark portfolios, acquire and implement technology and intellectual property assets, transfer technology to outsourced vendors, understand and address the risks and compliance obligations pursuant to the myriad privacy and data security laws in the U.S. and abroad (including the CCPA and GDPR), and monetize their technology, data and intellectual property assets.
Jessica represents clients in a broad variety of industries, including Internet/e-commerce, software and online services, digital assets, entertainment, banking and financial services, consumer products, pet care, accounting, manufacturing, retail, travel, IT and others.
Jessica is able to communicate with legal, business and technical teams with equal ease, facilitating the conversations required for all subject matter experts to understand the data compliance obligations imposed on their business and allowing a better and more seamless implementation of compliance efforts. Given her engineering background, she can also seamlessly discuss technology issues and the details of statements of work with her clients, to help them achieve desired outcomes in their contracting process with minimal disruption or delay. As part of mergers & acquisitions, financing and private equity transactions, Jessica brings unparalleled advice that is not only practical, but also insightful and efficient, to minimize deal delays and keep costs for the transaction within expected parameters.
As a chemical engineer with a minor in Environmental Engineering, Jessica is keenly interested in technology and all of its applications, including artificial intelligence (not only the generative kind, but also all other technology that is designed to mimic human thought or human-like decision-making and problem-solving), robotics, the internet, communication, innovative software applications, quantum computing, energy, clean technologies and all other ways of transferring scientific knowledge to practical use.
Jessica is a member of the firm’s diversity and Mansfield certification committees, and co-leads the firm’s Women’s Initiative Network. She also mentors associates through the firm’s formal mentorship program (as well as her own team, more informally).
Prior to joining Morrison Cohen, Jessica practiced as a technology attorney with Proskauer Rose LLP, Baker & McKenzie LLP and Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.