NORWALK, Conn. & LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Law Offices of Stuart L. Pardau & Associates and Lev & Berlin, P.C., are pleased to announce that they have established a strategic alliance. Drawing on their respective strengths, this strategic alliance will allow each firm to better serve and drive value for clients.
Both firms have significant practices in corporate, commercial and business law. In addition, they each have world class expertise in legal and regulatory issues affecting the market and public opinion research industries, which require highly specialized knowledge of and experience in privacy, data security, technology and marketing law.
Stuart L. Pardau is the Founding member and Principal of the Los Angeles based Law Offices of Stuart L. Pardau & Associates, where he advises clients on intellectual property, data security/privacy, general corporate law and a variety of employment related issues.
Prior to starting his own firm, Stuart was, for almost ten years, the Chief Legal Counsel at the leading market research firm J.D. Power and Associates and (for over five of those years), also an Associate General Counsel of J.D. Power’s parent, McGraw-Hill.
Stuart is an active participant in social media, where he comments on topical legal, business and economic issues on his blog www.onthe50yardline.com and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/#!/slpardau.
“Our strategic relationship with Lev & Berlin creates a unique range of expertise and experience for our business clients”, said Stuart Pardau. “Duane Berlin’s nearly three decades as outside counsel and service to trade associations provides a valuable counterpoint to my own previous experience as in-house counsel to several major corporations.”
Duane L. Berlin is the Principal and Managing attorney of Lev & Berlin, P.C., (www.levberlin.com) a Connecticut-based boutique corporate law firm. Having represented marketers, retailers, marketing research companies and trade associations for the past 28 years, Duane is an expert in the laws of marketing, market research, privacy, data security and technology, as well as commercial, securities and corporate legal issues.
Duane serves as General Counsel for the Council of American Survey Research Organizations, as legal counsel to the American Association for Public Opinion Research and represents many leading marketing and advertising research companies.
“Our affiliation with Stuart Pardau’s practice creates geographic and substantive synergies that will provide additional value to our clients”, said Duane Berlin. “The common areas of our practices will be energized and enhanced by the skills and resources that we will be able to share through our collaboration”.