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Lance Michalson

16/09/2008 – 10:43 am by Lance Michalson

Lance Michalson

Lance Michalson (BA LLB) - PARTNER
Email: lance@michalsons.com
Tel: 0860 111 245

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Lance Michalson is an experienced commercial lawyer who understands technology. He has been practicing IT law exclusively since 1996.

He focuses on:

  • Electronic risks: Electronic signatures, authentication, retention of electronic documents and admissibility; email and internet use policies; security policies; interception and monitoring of communications
  • IT Contracts: From licensing and support, to SLAs and outsourcing  to customer agreements (including reseller, sub-contractor etc) acting for both vendors and customers
  • eBusiness: Online trading terms; disclaimers; terms of use; privacy policies for e-commerce sites; domain name dispute
  • Privacy : steps that  need to be taken to establish a “privacy compliant” company, including privacy impact assessments, interpreting the legislation, awareness and training
  • Moving to the paperless environment: many organizations would like to save the expense of storing volumes of paper by having all documents stored on computers, but many are not sure about the value of the documents as evidence if they have been scanned. This need not be a problem if dealt with properly

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 2009)
  • Director of Lematics (Pty) Limited trading as Online Legal which provides online legal solutions ondemand (2008 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
  • Member of the Law Society of the Cape of Good Hope
  • Member of the Cyberlaw Committee of the Law Society of the Cape of Good Hope
  • Associate member of the American Bar Association

Accolades

Publications

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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