Michael Bleicher represents clients in a broad range of privacy, data, and technology litigation disputes. He specializes in defending technology and media companies in class actions brought under various federal and state privacy statutes, including the Stored Communications Act (SCA), stored value laws such as the federal Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure (CARD) Act, unfair competition laws, the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), and federal and state wiretapping laws such as the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) and the federal Wiretap Act, as well as novel claims under various right-to-privacy and defamation statutes. Michael also has extensive experience counseling technology companies on SCA compliance and related Fourth Amendment issues.

Before joining ZwillGen, Michael was a counsel at Perkins Coie, where he represented social media and technology companies in complex civil litigation. Notable matters included favorably settling a data breach class action brought against a major healthcare provider, securing a summary judgment resolution in litigation arising out of CIPA claims against a technology company, and defending major social media companies in ongoing federal litigation regarding Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. Michael also litigated and counseled numerous companies on responses to law enforcement requests and third-party subpoenas, as well as issues arising under federal and state privacy, security breach, and surveillance statutes and the First Amendment.

Michael earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he researched and wrote on First Amendment, net neutrality, and data privacy issues with Langdell Professor of Law Martha Field and was awarded the Dean’s Scholar prize in First Amendment. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude from Brown University with a BA in English.

Outside of the office, Michael enjoys writing and recording music, running, and American history.