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Lance Michalson
16/09/2008 – 10:43 am by Lance Michalson
Lance Michalson (BA LLB) - PARTNER
Email: lance@michalsons.com
Tel: 0860 111 245
Lance Michalson is an experienced commercial lawyer who understands technology. He has been at the forefront of IT law in South Africa for over 14 years.
He was commissioned by the Department of Communications to assist draft the ECT Act in 2001 and was also a drafter of the Information Security Best Practice Guide to the King II Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa on the instructions of the Institute of Directors in 2005.
He focuses on information law and electronic business activities, including information security, information management, data privacy, digital signatures, PKI, and the development and / or implementation of technology solutions and the on-going support and maintenance for those solutions.
Background
- Admitted as an attorney (1994)
- Director Hofmeyr Inc (now DLA Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr) (1998 to 2000)
- Partner at Harty Rushmere (2000)
- Partner at Arthur Andersen and head of SA IT Law Practice (2001)
- Attorney at Michalsons Attorneys (2002 to date)
- Co-founder and director iForest Information Management (Pty) Ltd (2004 to date)
Expertise
- Member of Government Working Group 1 on Security and Privacy (1999)
- Advised government on possible policy approaches towards encryption (2001)
- Member of Department of Communications ECT Act drafting Committee (2001)
- Member of Task Team responsible for drafting Regulations Accreditation Authority (2002)
- Member of drafting team of Information Security Best Practice Guide to King II (2005)
- Member of drafting team of Escrow Best Practice Guide to King II (2007)
- Member of the King III IT Governance Sub-Committee (May 2009)
Memberships / Affiliations
- Attorney of the High Court of South Africa (Gauteng & Cape Provincial Divisions)
- Member of the Law Society of Gauteng and the Cape of Good Hope
- Member of the Cyberlaw Committee of the Law Society of the Cape of Good Hope
- Member of the International Bar Association
- Associate member of the American Bar Association
- Associate member of the Computer Society of South Africa
- Associate member of the Association for Information Management Professionals (ARMA International)
- Affiliate member of the British Computer Society
- Editorial Board - Convergence Journal
- Editorial Board - e-Signature Law Journal
Accolades
- One of South Africa’s Top Internet Personalities (1998)
- Profiled in Who’s Who of Southern Africa (2007)
- Mentioned in the 2006 and 2008 editions of The Legal 500 (Europe, Middle East & Africa)
- One of 267 lawyers in the world selected for inclusion in the 2008 edition of the International Who’s Who of Internet & e-Commerce Lawyers (2008)
- One of 12 IT and telecoms lawyers in South Africa selected for inclusion in the 2008 edition of Expert Guides, an international guide to the best lawyers in different countries (2008)
Publications
- Author of several publications in journals and magazines
- Author of “South Africa and the Millenium Timebomb - A guide to the legal issues” (1998)
- Contributed chapter titled “The use of e-mail and the Internet in the workplace” in Cyberlaw, the law of the Internet (2000)
- Co-author of the South African Chapter in “e-Commerce, Getting the Deal Through” published by the International Bar Association (where the same questions and answers were posed to leading practitioners in 27 jurisdictions worldwide), 2008 and 2009 editions.
Speaker
Guest speaker at many conferences
Lecturer
Guest lecturer at the University of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape
Media
Summit TV, SABC, Radio 702, 567, Business Day, Sunday Times, Finance Week, Financial Mail, IT Web
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