
Kenneth J. Schweiker, Jr.
Kenneth is Of Counsel with Lauletta Birnbaum. He works closely with clients to successfully structure and consummate intellectual property, technology, and commercial transactions to achieve their business objectives. Additionally, he counsels clients in a broad range of cybersecurity and data privacy matters arising in connection with such transactions, as well as those arising during the general course of running a business.
Kenneth has obtained the Certified Information Privacy Professional for the U.S. Private Sector (CIPP/US), an ANAB-accredited credential provided by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). CIPP/US is the preeminent certification for advanced concentration in U.S. private-sector laws, standards and practices.
Kenneth drafts and negotiates contracts involving outsourcing, IP development, licensing and commercialization, joint venture, consulting, distribution arrangements, on-premise software and cloud-related matters. Additionally, Kenneth has extensive experience building and implementing policies, including privacy, data retention, security incident management, and cybersecurity policies, as well as compliance programs to ensure adherence to such policies.
Kenneth counsels clients on data governance issues to address business needs while minimizing risks and complying with a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape and other legal obligations. He has extensive experience advising businesses in the technology, consumer, healthcare and financial industries regarding information management and disposition policies, data transfers, third-party/vendor negotiation and management relative to data administration, and disaster recovery and avoidance.
Prior Experience
Kenneth began his journey as an attorney at Brown & Connery, a Philadelphia-area law firm, where he focused his practice on commercial litigation and bankruptcy matters. He helped financial institutions and software licensors protect their intellectual property and ensure that payments continued during the pendency of the bankruptcy proceedings.
Kenneth then went in-house working at SAP’s North America HQ, where he held legal and non-legal positions. Kenneth supported multiple industries while at SAP, but his forte soon became dealing with highly regulated entities such as financial institutions, insurance companies, medical institutions, utilities and state and local governmental entities. As a transactional and data privacy specialist at SAP, Kenneth negotiated contracts, including data processing and business associate agreements, and handled customer satisfaction issues with the largest and most sophisticated companies in North America and around the world. Kenneth’s last role at SAP was a non-legal role in the Trust Office, a global organization, where he assuaged customer cybersecurity concerns from a more technical, rather than legal perspective.
After nearly 10 years at SAP, Kenneth worked at a leading enterprise artificial intelligence startup based in Silicon Valley. During his tenure at C3.ai, Kenneth negotiated in-bound and out-bound agreements with vendors and customers around the globe, and developed processes & policies.
Education and Qualifications
- J.D., Rutgers University School of Law-Camden, Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion, Associate Notes Editor & Dean’s List (2007)
- LL.M. in Bankruptcy Law from St. John’s University, Hon. Conrad B. Duberstein Moot Court Competition – Problem Drafting Committee & Dean’s Merit Scholarship Recipient (2008)
- The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) has designated Kenneth as a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US).
Bar Admissions
- New Jersey
- New York
Business & Community Developments
Prior to beginning his career as an attorney, Kenneth lived and worked in Germany and Kazakhstan and also served as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine. He speaks fluent Russian and German, as well as a smattering of Ukrainian and Spanish. Currently, Kenneth spends a fair amount of his time collaborating with organizations endeavoring to assist Ukrainians through these challenging times.
Publications
He has written and published scholarly articles in Norton’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law & Practice and the Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion.
- Those (Pre-Petition) Bad Acts Might Just Catch Up With You – Good Faith Under § 1129(a)(3), 21 Norton J. Bankr. L. & Prac. 4 (2012)
- Present Value Discounting and 11 U.S.C.A. 502(b), 18 Norton J. Bankr. L. & Prac. 55 (2009)
- Military Chaplains: Federally Funded Fanaticism and the United States Air Force Academy, 8 Rutgers J. L. & Relig. 5 (2006)