Gail Gottehrer is the Founder of the Law Office of Gail Gottehrer LLC in Stamford, CT. Her practice focuses on emerging technologies, including autonomous vehicles, AI, biometrics, robots and facial recognition technology, and the privacy and security laws and ethical issues associated with the data collected and used by these technologies. She is one of the few defense lawyers to have been involved in the trial of a class action to verdict before a jury.Gail teaches Law for Knowledge Innovation at Columbia University, and is a member of the Advisory Board for Rutgers University’s Leading Disruptive Innovation Program, and a Fellow at the Center for Legal Innovation at Vermont Law School.Gail is a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Task Force on Autonomous Vehicles and the Law and the State of Connecticut’s Task Force to Study Fully Autonomous Vehicles. Gail also serves as Co-Chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Technology and the Legal Profession Committee, a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Transportation Law Committee, and as Chair-Elect of the ABA TIPS Automobile Litigation Committee.She is the New York Regional Co-Chair for the ABA’s Judicial Intern Opportunity Program, Co-Chair of the Programming Committee of the ABA’s Woman Advocate Committee, Co-Chair of the National Association of Women Lawyers’ IP & Technology Affinity Group, Editor of the ABA’s Pretrial Practice and Discovery Newsletter, and a member of the Sedona Conference Working Group 1. Gail was selected as one the Profiles in Diversity Journal’s 2017 Women Worth Watching in STEM and one of the Connecticut Technology Council’s 2016 Women of Innovation.She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Murray C. Goldman, in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas. Gail is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania