Ian C. Ballon, Co-Chair, Global Intellectual Property & Technology Practice Group, Greenberg Traurig
Ian Ballon (JD, LLM, CIPP/US) is an Internet litigator in Greenberg Traurig’s Los Angeles, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. offices and co-chair of the firm’s Global Intellectual Property Practice Group. Ian represents companies in intellectual property and technology-related litigation and in the defense of data privacy, security breach and AdTech class action suits. He is also the author of the leading treatise on Internet law, E-Commerce and Internet Law: Treatise with Forms 2d edition, the 5-volume set published by West (www.IanBallon.net). In addition, he serves as Executive Director of Stanford University Law School’s Center for the Digital Economy.
Ian was the recipient of the State Bar of California Intellectual Property Section’s Vanguard Award for significant contributions to the development of intellectual property law and has been recognized by The Daily Journal as one of the Top 75 IP litigators in California in every year that the list has been published, from 2009 through 2023, as one of the Top Cybersecurity and AI lawyers in California (2018 and 2019) and as one of the Top 100 lawyers in California. He is also listed in the World Trademark Review, “WTR 1000” (2018-2024).