Sarah Deutsch as a practicing attorney with considerable experience on Internet policy, intellectual property, privacy and related legal issues, is currently serving as a ERI Board member. Sarah worked for over 23 years at Verizon Communications as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel in its Legal Department. She managed the company’s global intellectual property practice and team of legal and technical personnel responsible for trademarks, domain names, copyrights, patent licensing and unfair competition issues. Sarah has extensive experience in Internet policy issues, and served as the primary subject matter expert in the Legal Department responsible for Internet issues since the mid 1990s. She has extensive experience in IP, online liability issues, privacy, cyber-security and consumer protection issues and was the first attorney to oversee Verizon’s Privacy Office, including managing its Chief Privacy Officer, privacy attorneys and staff. She was a Lecturer of Law at Harvard Law School, teaching a class in online privacy in 2019.

Sarah was one of five negotiators for the U.S. telecommunications industry in the negotiations that led to the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. She also served as a Private Sector Advisor to U.S. Delegation to the WIPO Copyright Treaties and to the G8 Cybercrime Conference. Sarah was the 2014 recipient of the Managing IP In-House Counsel Award at the American Women in Business Law Awards. In 2009, she received the Public Knowledge President’s Award for Extraordinary Dedication to Protecting the Free Flow of Information Over the Internet. Sarah currently serves on the Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the National Center for Health Research. Sarah holds a J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law and a B.A. from Emory University.

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