ADAM EISGRAU As Judiciary Committee Counsel to Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) from 1993 to 1995, Adam was intimately involved in many of the most controversial and cutting edge policy issues of the time, including: intellectual property protection, privacy, data security, product liability and bankruptcy reform, as well as immigration and the Senate's historic vote to prospectively ban assault weapons. Between 1995 and 1999, Adam served as the American Library Association's first Legislative Counsel. His position as the organization's principal domestic and international lobbyist on intellectual property issues allowed Adam to help shape the debate as Congress and the World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO") wrestled with the reform of "IP" law for the internet age. He also was a primary organizer and media spokesperson for the more than 40 public and private sector members of the Digital Future Coalition, representing the Coalition in Geneva at the WIPO's historic 1996 treaty conference and before Congress in subsequent debate over the treaty's implementation. Adam began his Washington career in 1984 practicing communications law with a focus on then-emerging technologies on the leading edge of the communications revolution, such as high definition television, satellite radio and TV, and electronic device testing regulation. An expert in Congressional trench "warfare," Adam came to private lobbying practice from Handgun Control where he oversaw Federal Relations and Public Policy. A native New Yorker, Adam is an Adjunct Professor with Georgetown University's Masters Program on Communication, Culture & Technology. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1984 and graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1980. |