Mr. Craig Gestring is a career prosecutor. He has prosecuted criminal cases in State, Federal, and Military courts around the country. Gestring is an Assistant United States Attorney with the Criminal Division in the Western District of New York where he prosecutes a wide variety of federal crimes including environmental crimes, white collar crimes, frauds, threat cases, and gun crimes. Gestring’s cyber work includes prosecuting online crimes against children and coordinating cyber investigations involving BOTs, intrusions, and hacking.
Gestring is a combat veteran, having spent a long, hot, and dusty year doing Army stuff with an M-16 in the Al Anbar Province of Western Iraq.
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Mr. Paul Greene, Partner of the law firm of Harter Secrest & Emery. Paul brings years of experience to bear handling complex litigation matters in highly regulated industries. He provides clients with strategies to prevent, address, and resolve disputes in areas including privacy and data security, health care, and construction claims and design professional defense.
As chair of the Firm’s Privacy and Data Security practice group, Paul counsels clients of all sizes in a wide range of industries concerning all aspects of pre-breach preparation and risk management, including security and vulnerability assessments, policy and procedure review, breach response planning and drills, as well as board and management education on cyber risk issues. After the breach, Paul, his team, and the team’s professional consultants provide a full array of breach coach and response services, including breach response and remediation, crisis management and communication, internal and governmental investigations, breach notification, and potential litigation or regulatory action.
Paul’s health care practice has placed him at the forefront of Medicaid reimbursement litigation against New York State in the long-term care space, litigating state-wide to champion the rights of long-term care providers.
Paul’s construction and design professional experience includes construction projects and improvements, both public and private, of all sizes. He has extensive experience with public authority improvements, including performance and payment bond claims. Specific industry experience includes water delivery and processing systems, landfills, and construction of medical facilities.
Paul’s clients have included long-term and health care providers, insurers, and groups; Fortune 100 companies; a major credit card and travel-related services company; an international shipping and logistics company; an international printing and packaging company; a health care trade association; an agricultural cooperative; a public water authority; design professionals and construction companies; automotive dealers of all sizes; as well as closely held businesses and individuals.
He has litigated in numerous venues, including the Supreme Court of the State of New York (both on the trial and appellate level, as well as before the New York State Court of Appeals), United States District Courts around the country, the American Arbitration Association and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution. He also devotes a significant portion of his time to pro-bono representation and support of cultural organizations.
Fluent in German, Paul has also represented a number of German-language clients in commercial disputes before American judicial and arbitral tribunals.
Mrs. Birdsong is the Community Outreach and Planning Specialist for the Federal Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. She began her federal service with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) where she spent a decade working in various positions. Her final position at the IRS was as a Taxpayer Advocate.