Marie-Andrée Weiss is a French-American attorney admitted in New York, and in Strasbourg, France. She is also accredited to practice before the Department of Veterans Affairs. She graduated from the University of Strasbourg in France with an M.A. in art history, a J.D. in business law, an LL.M. in criminal law, and an LL.M. in multimedia law. She also graduated from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City with an LL.M. in intellectual property law. She is an attorney in New York and her solo practice focuses on intellectual property, privacy, data protection and social media law. Before becoming an attorney, she worked several years in the fashion and cosmetics industry in New York as a buyer and a director of sales and marketing. She enjoys blogging and is a guest blogger on several sites and maintains two of her own blogs. Her current fields of interest are freedom of speech on social media sites, the use of consumers’ likenesses in marketing and advertising, what happens to digital data after death, and the ethical implications for attorneys blogging and using social media.