Miriam H. Wugmeister is a partner in the New York office of Morrison & Foerster and the head of the firm’s global privacy and data security practice.

Ms. Wugmeister regularly counsels clients regarding the collection, use, disclosure and transfer of personal information as organizations seek to comply with U.S. and international data protection laws. She has advised several global companies on multinational compliance efforts, including the consolidation of human resources and customer data into a single database; global technology use and monitoring policies and procedures; handling of personal information in the context of sourcing transactions; global data security standards; e-discovery and international privacy issues; the implications of various local and national laws on direct marketing initiatives, and security breach notification policies and responses.

Ms. Wugmeister also has significant experience in all areas of employment and labor law, and regularly counsels clients ranging from emerging growth companies with fewer than ten employees to Fortune 500 companies with thousands of employees. Ms. Wugmeister advises clients about matters involving personnel policies, employee discipline issues, employment discrimination, reductions-in-force, wage and hour laws and employee privacy issues. Ms. Wugmeister has broad experience litigating, arbitrating and mediating employment matters.

Ms. Wugmeister publishes and speaks widely on privacy and data security issues and is the editor of the publication, “Employee Privacy: Guide to US and International Law” which has been published in two versions by A.S. Pratt & Sons and Thompson Publishing in September 2007. She is a contributing author to a chapter in “Doing Business in the United States: New York,” a handbook in the Practical Law Company’s “PLC Cross-border” 2007 series.

In addition to being named in New York Super Lawyers, Manhattan Edition (2006), Ms. Wugmeister is ranked by Legal 500 for her experience in both Technology Data Protection and Privacy and Labor and Employment: Employee Mobility. Ms. Wugmeister is also listed in Best Lawyers in America 2008, and has recently qualified for the AV (highest) Peer Review Rating from LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell.

Ms. Wugmeister received her J.D., magna cum laude, in 1992 from Boston University School of Law, where she was an editor of the Law Review. Ms. Wugmeister earned a B.S. in Philosophy and History of Western Thought from Brandeis University in 1986. Ms. Wugmeister is admitted to practice in the courts of California, Connecticut and New York.