Mehmet Munur

mehmet.munur@tsibouris.com
(614) 360-3101

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Professional Experience

Mehmet Munur is an attorney at Tsibouris & Associates, LLC. He concentrates his practice in the areas of technology law, information privacy and security, financial services, and other transactional law.

He has experience in banking and card association regulations, payments, electronic money, and other financial services. He has worked on both the regulatory aspects and the contractual aspects of this area of the law.

Mr. Munur works on the contracts for internet-based services, including drafting terms of use, privacy policies and other online legal agreements relating to payments, purchasing, and supplier portals. He also regularly works with clients on servicing, financing, payments, and technology outsourcing agreements.

Mr. Munur advises clients on privacy issues, laws, and regulation. More specifically, he advises clients on issues relating to GLBA, CAN-SPAM, FCRA, FACTA, HIPAA and HITECH regulations, and US Department of Commerce Safe Harbor certification and compliance. He also has experience with Canadian and European privacy laws.

Mr. Munur has experience in a variety of other areas including electronic commerce, payments, electronic signatures, records retention, data breach incident response, trademark prosecution and other intellectual property disputes, software licensing and audits, anti-money laundering laws, Office of Foreign Assets Control and other import-export regulations.

In addition, he also has experience in other areas of the law connected to technology, including drafting workplace policies relating to social media, records retention and destruction, security incident response policies, and other policies that touch on technology, security, and privacy areas.

Mr. Munur conducts presentations on security, privacy, and technology issues. He is the current chair for the International Association of Privacy Professionals KnowledgeNet in Columbus, Ohio.

Mr. Munur graduated from Capital University law school (J.D., magna cum laude) and is admitted to the Ohio bar. He also graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University (B.A. cum laude). While in law school, Mr. Munur was the Executive Research Editor for the Capital University Law Review and participated in moot court. He was published in both the Capital University Law Review and the Capital University Corporate and Business Law Association Journal.

Mr. Munur completed a judicial externship with the Honorable George C. Smith at the U.S. District Court at the Southern District of Ohio and clerked with Tsibouris & Associates for over a year before joining the law firm.

Mr. Munur is a member of the American Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, Columbus Bar Association, International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), and Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). He is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP).

Representative Matters

Assisted a financial service provider with a 50-state licensing, insurance, and bonding compliance program.
Assisted financial companies with Truth in Lending Act, Regulation Z, Equal Credit Opportunity Act, and Regulation B compliance issues.
Assisted financial services companies with servicing agreements.
Assisted various companies with data security breach notification issues.
Assisted multinational corporations and ecommerce companies with Safe Harbor self-certification and compliance.
Negotiated data transfer and processing agreements.
Assisted an ecommerce company with EU Data Protection Directive Compliance.
Assisted an ecommerce company with an electronic money project.
Assisted with the roll-out of several internet products and related regulatory compliance.
Assisted a manufacturer with software license compliance audit.
Assisted a media company regarding a copyright and trademark compliance program.

Presentations

"Legal Update on Security, Privacy, and Technology" @ the Central Ohio ISSA, June 2011 (Columbus, OH).
"FTC Do-Not-Track Report and DoC Privacy Green Paper Panel" @ the IAPP KnowledgeNet, April 2011 (Columbus, OH).
"Technology Contracting 101 for Business People" @ the Central Ohio ISSA, presented by Dino Tsibouris and Mehmet Munur, November 2010 (Columbus, OH).
"Governance - The Foundation for Business and Technology Alignment Panel" @ the First Annual Echelon One Executive Summit, October 2010 (Columbus, OH).
"Information Security: Changes in the Law, Cost, and Complexity of Responding to Breaches" @ the Central Ohio Information Security Summit, presented by Dino Tsibouris and Mehmet Munur, May 2010 (Columbus, OH).
"Information Security and Electronic Discovery," presented by Dino Tsibouris and Mehmet Munur, March 2010 (Columbus, OH).
"Legal Update on Information Security" @ the Central Ohio Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association, presented by Dino Tsibouris and Mehmet Munur, January 2010 (Columbus, OH).
"International Data Transfers-Strategic Consideration for Sending or Receiving Data Internationally" @ the IAPP KnowledgeNet, presented by Dino Tsibouris, Mehmet Munur, and Sarah Branam, January 2010 (Columbus, OH).

Professional Associations

American Bar Association, Cyberspace Law Committee
Ohio Bar Association
Columbus Bar Association
International Association of Privacy Professionals
Information Systems Security Association

Clerkship

Judicial Extern to the Honorable George C. Smith, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio (Spring 2007)

Education

Capital University Law School, Columbus, Ohio; JD, magna cum laude 2008; Executive Research Editor, Capital University Law Review
Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio; BA, cum laude 2003, Economics and Political Science