Blake A. Bell is Senior Counsel.  With more than two decades worth of experience as a commercial and securities litigator, he also serves as the Firm's Senior Knowledge Management Counsel. 

Mr. Bell has litigated technology and other issues on behalf of some of the world's most notable business organizations including Intel Corporation, Accenture and others.  He has advised some of the nation’s most prominent businesses on technology law and e-discovery legal matters.  He has extensive experience with electronic discovery in complex litigation.  He has been named twice as among the one hundred top Internet and e-commerce lawyers in the United States by Law Business Research in its Internet and E-Commerce:  An International Who's Who of Internet and E-Commerce Lawyers.  

Mr. Bell founded and served for many years as editor-in-chief of CyberSecuritiesLaw.com, an award-winning Web site devoted to securities regulation and the Internet.  He served for several years as co-editor of E-Law Updates, an electronic newsletter regarding cyberlaw developments read by more than 1,300 legal scholars, in-house counsel and private practitioners throughout the world.

Mr. Bell has served as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of wallstreetlawyer.com and currently serves as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Wall Street Lawyer.  He also has served as a member of the Board of Editors of Cyberspace Lawyer and the Board of Advisers of eSecurities.  He has written extensively in the area of cyberlaw for such publications as the New York Law Journal , eSecurities magazine and Investor Relations magazine. He has been quoted regarding Internet securities regulation and Internet law matters on more than one hundred occasions by such diverse publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, New York Times on the Web, Wired News, and many more.  He has authored more than fifty published articles on issues relating to Internet law and Internet securities regulation.

Mr. Bell served a three-year term on the Computer Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.  He received his B.A. in American Government with High Honors in 1980 from the University of Virginia where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.  He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1983.  He was a Dillard Fellow, a Harry S. Truman Scholar and received the University's Most Distinguished Student Award.

Mr. Bell has been admitted to the Bars of the State of New York (1984); the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York (1988); the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1991) and the Supreme Court of the United States (1994). 

Honors/Associations

•	Twice named as among the one hundred and ten top Internet and E-Commerce Lawyers in the U.S. by Law Business Research
•	Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1999-2002, Computer Law Committee

Publications

•	2003 Securities Law Developments, 8(2) Cyberspace Law. 18 (Apr. 2003) (monthly column published for last three years).
•	The Evolving Use of the Internet in Connection with Securities Litigation (Part 2), 7(4) Cyberspace Law. 2 (July. 2002).
•	The Evolving Use of the Internet in Connection with Securities Litigation (Part 1), 7(3) Cyberspace Law. 2 (June 2002).
•	The Evolving Use of the Internet in Connection with Securities Litigations in Securities Law & the Internet 2002:  Disclosure Practices in Light of Enron & Current SEC Disclosure Initiatives, 1315 PLI/Corp 501 (Practising Law Institute June 11, 2002).
•	The Evolving Use of the Internet in Connection with Securities Litigations in Securities Law & the Internet 2002, 1315 PLI/Corp 501 (Practising Law Institute June 11, 2002).
•	The Evolving Use of the Internet in Connection with Securities Litigations
•	The Impact of the Internet on Securities Litigation: Changing the Way Plaintiffs Sue Business
•	Protecting Customers’ Private Data from Misappropriation By Institutional Identity Thieves
•	Protecting Private Data from Misappropriation by Internet “Identity Thieves"
•	Dealing With Liability Risks To Owners of Computers Used in Denial of Service Attacks
•	Reducing the Liability Risks of Employee Misuse of the Internet
•	Reducing the Liability Risks of Employee Misuse of the Internet, 3(1) Wallstreetlawyer.com (Glasser LegalWorks June 1999).
•	The SEC and Free Stock Offers on the Web, 1(9) eSecurities 1 (Leader Publications, May 1999).
•	Online Brokerages Under Siege for Trading Outages and Delays, 2(11) Wallstreetlawyer.com 10 (Glasser LegalWorks, April 1999).
•	Online Trading Losses and Suitability Claims Against E-Brokers
•	Online Trading Losses and Suitability Claims Against E-Brokers, 2(9) Wallstreetlawyer.com 18 (Glasser LegalWorks Feb. 1999).
•	Dealing with False Internet Rumors: A Corporate Primer
•	Dealing With False Internet Rumors: A Corporate Primer, 2(7) Wallstreetlawyer.com 1 (Glasser LegalWorks Dec. 1998).
•	Do Shareholder Activists Violate Federal Proxy Solicitation Laws Through Internet Message Boards?
•	Do Shareholder Activists Violate Federal Proxy Solicitation Laws Through Internet Message Boards? 2(4) Wallstreetlawyer.com 8, (Glasser Legal Works Sept. 1998).
•	The Liability Risks of E-Broker Chat Rooms
•	E-Broker Chat Rooms and Federal Securities Laws, 2(3) Wallstreetlawyer.com 1 (Glasser LegalWorks Aug. 1998).
•	Technology - Cyberlaw: Blake Bell on Managing Your Company's Web Site To Avoid U.S. Federal Securities Law Violations, Investor Relations 71 (Cross-Border Publishing Ltd. Jul. 1998).
•	Securities Regulations: Corporate Web Sites and Securities Offerings N.Y.L.J., May 21, 1998, at 5, col. 1.
•	Corporate Web Sites and Securities Offerings, V(4) American Bar Ass'n Section of the Litigation Consumer & Personal Rights Litigation Newsletter 9 (Jan. 1998).
•	Tom Rice & Blake Bell, Liability of Lender's Counsel, in Lender Liability and Other Complex Litigation Involving Financial Institutions at 273-304 ALI-ABA 1991
•	"Other Insurance Clauses," in Barry Ostrager & Thomas Newman, Handbook on Insurance Coverage Disputes, 9.01-9.05(c) 1st ed. Prentice Hall L. & Bus. 1988

Admissions

•	New York 1984
•	U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York 1988
•	U.S. District Court Southern District of New York 1988
•	U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit 1991
•	U.S. Supreme Court 1994

Education

•	University of Virginia School of Law, 1983 J.D. Dillard Fellow (Taught Legal Research and Writing), Harry S. Truman Scholar, Recipient of University of Virginia's Most Distinguished Student Award, 1983
•	University of Virginia, 1980 B.A. With High Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Harry S. Truman Scholar