Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge

Mark E. Schreiber's practice is in management defense of employment, compliance, and privacy law matters, including internal company investigations involving alleged fraud, financial improprieties, health care, anti-kickback, and other misconduct. He advises boards and special board committees on these matters. For more than 30 years, he has defended innumerable sexual harassment, discrimination, privacy, wrongful termination, employment contract, non-competition, defamation, ERISA, and disability matters at all levels, including in the trial and appellate courts.

He is Chair of the firm's Privacy and Data Protection Group, and also Co-Chair for Privacy Matters of the World Law Group, an international affiliation of large law firms. He helped found and was Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association's Privacy Committee. Among his practice areas are E.U. data protection and cross-border data transfer, including adapting Sarbanes-Oxley hotlines abroad, and he co-authored the ABA text chapter on this subject. He has handled a number of HIPAA, medical, Gramm Leach, U.S. Safe Harbor and E.U. privacy and security and data breach matters for financial services, biotech and high tech companies, and universities and colleges in the U.S., E.U. and Asia. He has practiced extensively in privacy, data breach and compliance policy and design, workplace e-mail and Internet matters, employee on-line misconduct and responses to government electronic searches.

Mr. Schreiber has litigated, written and lectured extensively on employment and privacy law in Massachusetts, and is credited by some with having helped develop the recent jurisprudence in this field.  He co-chaired the MBA Subcommittee that assisted the MCAD in drafting its widely recognized "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Guidelines," and was invited to speak to the Massachusetts Flaschner Judges Conference in 2004 on jury instructions and developments in employment law. He has authored a number of important articles, including employer monitoring of e-mail and Internet traffic, investigating and defending sexual harassment claims, employment discrimination law, wrongful termination claims, non-competition agreements, "customer stealing," theft of confidential information, and physician employment problems. His articles have been cited by the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court and elsewhere. He is listed in the Best Lawyers in America (Labor and Employment Law Section) and has been for the past 20 years, and Massachusetts Super Lawyers (Employment Defense) and has been recognized in the Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition (Employment Litigation: Defense).

Mark E. Schreiber. Mr. Schreiber's practice is in defense of employment, healthcare compliance, FCPA and privacy law matters, including internal company investigations involving alleged fraud and abuse, anti-kickback, and other misconduct. He advises boards and special board committees on these matters. He has assisted numerous pharma and medical device science companies, healthcare facilities and physicians in marketing compliance, anti-kickback, research fraud, HIPAA and medical privacy areas. This encompasses structuring emerging drug marketing rollout, healthcare related businesses, due diligence and compliance plans, including conflict of interest, grants, honoraria, consulting and other outside arrangements. He has interfaced with the OIG, FBI, US Attorney offices and other agencies in investigations of such conduct and arrangements.
Mr. Schreiber has helped construct and vet numerous HIPAA, privacy, and medical disclosure programs for these entities, including in transactions. He is Chair of the firm's Privacy Group, Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association's Privacy Comm., and also Co-Chair for Privacy Matters of the World Law Group, an international affiliation of large law firms. Among his practice areas are E.U. and global data protection and cross-border data transfer, including of clinical data abroad and in multi-national investigations, and in adapting Sarbanes-Oxley and FCPA whistleblower hotlines abroad. He has handled a number of related medical device, pharma and life science matters in Europe, including Eastern Europe, and parts of Asia.