Amanda Witt is a partner in Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough's Atlanta office in the Information Management Group. Her practice focuses on the areas of information technology, information security and privacy, e-commerce, outsourcing, intellectual property protection and transactions, software development and licensing, entertainment/media, mergers and acquisitions, business planning and formation along with general corporate counseling. 

Ms. Witt has worked with clients ranging from publicly and privately held companies, private equity and mezzanine funds, financial services firms, insurance and reinsurance companies, and third party administrators to software developers, television content providers, entrepreneurs, and entertainers in all aspects of their matters. 

Her representative experience includes 

• drafting various technology agreements, including traditional licensing, software development, hosting agreements, Web site co-branding agreements, and Web site development agreements;
• advising clients on protection and licensing of copyrights, trademarks, trade secret, and related intellectual property rights;
• information technology outsourcing and business process outsourcing relationships;
• software license and development relationships;
• reviewing Web sites for intellectual property, privacy, and a variety of other Internet legal issues;
• mergers and acquisitions of privately held companies;
• various privacy and security issues relating to e-business transactions;
• corporate finance and venture capital;
• joint ventures and strategic alliance;
• dispute avoidance and dispute resolutions relating to IT/Outsourcing relationships; and
• negotiation of producer, distribution and management agreements in the music and television industries.

She has authored or co-authored the following publications:

• "Information Security and Privacy: A Practical Guide for Global Executives, Lawyers and Technologists," American Bar Association (Section of Science and Technology Law), February 17, 2011 (co-author).
• “Purchasing or Licensing IT Systems:  Advice from the Trenches,” American Bar Association Corporate Counsel Journal, April 2010(Joint Author)
• “New State Information Security Standards in Nevada and Massachusetts: Gloves Coming Off Encryption Requirements,” Nelson Mullins Client Alert, October 2008 (Joint Author)
• “Protecting Children: Texas is First State to Enforce COPPA,” The SciTech Lawyer, American Bar Association, Volume 5, Number 1, Summer 2008
• “Rethinking Your Employee Monitoring Policies After the 9th Circuit’s Quon Decision,” Bloomberg Law Reports: Privacy and Information, Vol. 1, No. 5, September 2008 “Case Law on Electronic Signatures and the Enforceability of Electronic Transactions,” InfoLaw Notes, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, May 15, 2008
• “Compounding The Confusion And Exculpating The Confused: Adverse Action Notices Under FCRA: Safeco Insurance Co. Of America V. Burr,” Client Alert, June 2007
• “Signed, Sealed & Unconscionable? Electronic Signatures Are Legal, But...,” Client Alert, April 2006
• “Burned in the USA - Should the Music Industry Utilize its American Strategy of Suing Users to Combat Online Piracy in Europe?” Columbia Journal of European Law, Spring 2005
• “Do You Know Where Your Identity Is Tonight?” Client Alert, November 2005
• “Personal Data - Secure or Shred Before FTC Sweeps,” Client Alert, December 2004

Ms. Witt has presented frequently in the areas of electronic signatures, e-contracting and media.  Some of her recent presentations include:   

• Head in the Clouds:  Cloud Computing" (Speech at ABA Conference, Boston, MA, April 16, 2011)(panelist)
• International Data Privacy Panel sponsored by Women in eDiscovery (Atlanta, GA March 9, 2010)(panelist)
• US and Global Privacy Issues - New Developments, Global Harmonizing and Practical Approaches (Speech on state and federal security breach notification laws in Atlanta, GA April 30, 2009)
• Information Management, Privacy and Security:  Practical Solutions to Current Issues (Speech on vendor management in Columbia, SC November 13, 2008)
• Time for Big League Play:  Creative Solutions for Information Management (Speech at Turner Field for the Association of Corporate Counsel of America, Atlanta, GA, July 30, 2008)(panelist)
• ESIGN:  Practical Tips on Designing and Implementing an Electronic Signature Process (Speech at the Association of Corporate Counsel of America, Houston, TX, November 13, 2007)
• ESIGN:  Practical Tips on Designing and Implementing an Electronic Signature Process (Speech at the Association of Insurance Compliance Professionals, Portland, OR, October 31, 2007)
• Media Law & Liability:  Legal Issues in Insurance (Speech at the Insurance Media Association in New York City, NY October 17, 2007)
• Myths and Realities of Electronic Signatures (ESIGN 101), (Speech in Chicago, IL September 28, 2007)
• Electronic Signatures:  Practical Tips on Designing & Implementing an Effective Electronic Signature Process (Speech at NativeTech 2007, Cabazon, CA May 15-17, 2007)
• PodLaw:  Legal Aspects of Podcasting (Speech at PodCamp, Atlanta, Georgia March 17, 2007)
• Intellectual Property Aspects of Joint Ventures & File Sharing (Speech at Emory School of Law February 6, 2006)

She is a member of the Stonewall Bar Association, GLAAD, AGLCC, and the Georgia Bar Association's Technology Law and International Law sections of Law sections. 

Ms. Witt earned her LL.M. in International Intellectual Property, magna cum laude, in 2004 from Catholic University at Leuven, Belgium. She earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 2000 from Emory University School of Law and was named a William D. Ferguson Scholar. She earned a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in 1996 from the University of Florida, where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.