Philip S. Corwin

Philip S. Corwin

Senior Director and Policy Counsel at Verisign
Joined on February 22, 2007
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About

Philip S. Corwin is senior director and policy counsel at Verisign. Before joining Verisign in 2017, Philip served as founding principal of Virtualaw LLC.

With more than 30 years of federal legislative and regulatory experience, Philip has focused on the evolving law of electronic commerce, including such areas as internet governance, antitrust, privacy, cybersecurity, online speech and intellectual property protection.

Philip is an active member of several American Bar Association Committees. He served as Chairman of the Business Law Section’s Committee on Legislation and as the Washington Liaison for the Science and Technology Section, and he was Legislative Reporter for the Business Law Section’s Cyberspace Law Committee. He also participates in the Trademark Legislation and Trademarks & the Internet Committees. He is a member of the International Trademark Association, where he served for eight years on the Internet Committee, and he is presently a member of the INTA’s Anti-Counterfeiting Committee.

Philip received his Bachelor of Arts in government from Cornell University’s College of Arts and Sciences and his Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School. He is a member of the Bar in the District of Columbia and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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2016 - Jul 08 on Heritage Holding Anti-IANA Transition Event With Cruz
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