Lawrence T. Greenberg has been Chief Legal Officer of The Motley Fool, Inc., a leading financial media and advice company, since 1996. Before joining the Fool, he practiced law at the Palo Alto firm of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati and helped found the Project on Information Technology and National Security at the Stanford Center for International Security and Arms Control. He clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Houston, and has served as an attorney at the National Security Agency and as a Graduate Fellow analyst for counterterrorism at the Central Intelligence Agency. He attended Harvard College and Stanford Law School, and received an M.A. in political science from Stanford University. Lawrence was the author (with Seymour Goodman and Kevin Soo Hoo) of Information Warfare and International Law (National Defense University Press, 1998) and was a member of the 2000 Defense Science Board Defensive Information Operations Task Force Legal Panel. Since 2001 he has been an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University School of Law, where he teaches a seminar on Internet privacy. During the spring semester of 2006 he will teach Business Associations at the American University Washington College of Law. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife Melanie, who is the President of the Cypress Fund for Peace and Security, and their two children, dog, guinea pigs, and fish.
Lawrence’s research concerns the potential tensions between measures to protect intellectual property and national security. More generally, he is interested in matters of privacy and security, Internet communities, and the relationship between legal and technological change.