Philip L. Gordon

Philip L. Gordon has more than 15 years of experience counseling clients on all aspects of workplace privacy and information security. He has provided advice to businesses of all sizes on:

• Surveillance of employees' electronic communications
• The Federal Wiretap Act
• The Federal Stored Communications Act
• Workplace searches
• Location tracking and use of GPS-enabled devices
• Background checks
• The Fair Credit Reporting Act
• Social media
• Wearables and other new technologies affecting the workplace
• “Bring-your-own-device” programs
• The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (HIPAA) Privacy Rule, Security Rule, and Breach Notification Rule
• State and federal information security laws
• Responding to security breaches in compliance with federal and state data breach notification requirements
• The European Union General Data Protection Regulation
• Global data protection laws
• Cross-border transfers of human resources data
• Outsourcing
• The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA)

The co-chair of Littler's Privacy and Background Checks Practice Group, Philip writes extensively on workplace privacy issues and has given dozens of presentations on the topic. He has taught privacy and data protection law as an adjunct professor at the University of Colorado School of Law on several occasions. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of Georgetown University Law Center’s Cybersecurity Law Institute. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his law degree from New York University School of Law and served as a judicial clerk on the United States Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit.