Profile
Ms. Weston serves as international coordination counsel for German and U.S. manufacturers. She works with a global network of law firms to defend her clients against claims and lawsuits brought outside of the U.S.
She also advises in intellectual properly matters, such as negotiation of cross-border non-disclosure agreements and unfair competition and trade secret matters in the U.S.
She has extensive, real-world experience and expertise in handling client data, including electronically-stored information, in particular in the contexts of discovery in U.S. litigation and data protection in the European Union. She offers counsel in e-discovery preparedness planning (e.g., developing document management and retention policies and advising on cross-border data protection and privacy issues).
Ms. Weston has substantial U.S. trial experience in both state and federal courtrooms and is accomplished in both motion practice and trial preparation. She has represented such clients as airlines, aviation and aerospace manufacturers and insurers, automotive manufacturers and suppliers, utility companies, internet start-ups and banks.
Ms. Weston was a Visiting Lecturer in the Temple University Beasley School of Law LL.M. program at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where she lectured in intellectual property and the law of corporations. During her federal court clerkship, she also taught constitutional law at the University of Tulsa’s College of Law in her hometown, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Presentations and Publications
Co-author with Jörg Staudenmayer, Appeal Court Limits Importers’ Product Liability Exposure, published in International Law Office, Product Liability – Germany (March 15, 2012).
Co-author with Dr. Ralf Deutlmoser, A Manufacturer's Guide to Coordination Counsel, Lawyer Monthly magazine (March 2011). Read Article
Co-author with Dr. Ralf Deutlmoser, Status of Collective Redress in Germany — Expansion Uncalled for, International Comparative Legal Guide to: Class and Group Actions (2010). Read Article
Co-author with Nicole Boehler, Europeans Aren’t “Over” Data Privacy: Bridging the Data Protection Gulf Between the EU and the U.S., Defense Research Institute E-Discovery Connection (2009).
United States Trespass to Chattels Claims for Hard Drives Fed Up With Internet Cookies: Suggestions and Observations, Tsinghua University Press (for International Symposium on Sino-American Tort Law) (2004).