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Bruce J. Heiman

Practice Area Leader - Policy/Regulatory
Washington DC
+1.202.661.3935
Fax +1.202.778.9100

Primary Practice

Secondary Practices

Education

  • J.D., Harvard Law School, 1980
  • M.P.P., Harvard University, 1980, (John F. Kennedy School of Government)
  • B.A., Brandeis University, 1976, (magna cum laude)

Admissions

  • Bar of District of Columbia
  • Biography Overview
  • Additional Biographies
    • Information Technology
Bruce Heiman engages in a wide ranging federal counseling and lobbying practice. He has represented leading companies and trade associations in technology, trade, postal, financial services, transportation and manufacturing industries. He is one of two Practice Area Leaders of K&L Gates’ Policy and Regulatory Practice and serves on the firm’s Management Committee.

Mr. Heiman regularly assists clients design and implement a Washington, D.C. “game plan” to protect and promote their interests before Congress and federal departments and agencies. Mr. Heiman works extensively with the commerce, judiciary, tax, financial services and government affairs committees in the House and Senate. He helps them pursue legislation, implement enacted laws, and achieve their objectives in industry meetings as well as government negotiations. He also often helps clients assemble and advocate on behalf of a coalition of parties with similar objectives, including interest groups and think tanks. He writes and speaks frequently and is often quoted in the media on current developments.

Previously, he served as Legislative Director and Trade Counsel to U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York from 1984 to 1987.

He first joined the firm in 1980 after graduating with degrees in law and public policy from Harvard Law School and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Mr. Heiman serves on the Board of the Capitol Historical Society.

Areas of Practice

For over 20 years, Mr. Heiman has engaged in a wide-ranging federal counseling and lobbying practice on behalf of leading clients in the computer software, information technology and telecommunications industries.  He also assists a range of companies understand the laws and policies applying to their Internet and e-commerce activities. He is one of two Practice Area Leaders of K&L Gates’ Policy and Regulatory Practice and serves on the firm’s Management Committee.

Mr. Heiman is a recognized authority on cyber security and privacy policy issues.  He was counsel to the private sector coalition that led the fight to liberalize export controls on American encryption products.  He currently is working with a leading trade association to ensure that efforts to promote cyber security and protect critical information infrastructure are market-driven and industry-led.

He has been actively involved in formulating practicable privacy policies, protecting intellectual property rights, and improving the delivery of government services while preventing unfair competition with the private sector. 

He has long opposed governmental regulation of the Internet and technological mandates and was instrumental in ensuring that information services and ISP’s were not treated like telecommunications services and carriers (CALEA in 1994; the Telecommunications Act of 1996; the PATRIOT Act of 2001).

Mr. Heiman was profiled by Tech Counsel Magazine as one of the leading high-tech lobbyists in Washington and has been quoted on info-tech issues in The Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Journal, Congressional Quarterly, Legal Times and Tech Daily.  He has spoken to the RSA Security Conference, the ABA Committee of Corporate General Counsel and the Congressional Internet Caucus.

From 1984 to 1987, he served as legislative director and trade counsel to U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York.

Publications

  • “Patent-Infringement Remedy Needs Supreme Court Tuneup,” (with Paul Stimers), San Jose Mercury News, February 9, 2006
  • “Who Steals My Name? The US and EU Response to Data Security Breach,” (with Donald A. Cohn and Jonthan P. Armstrong), ACC Docket, June 2006
  • “Data Breach Notification and Cybersecurity Standards in the U.S. and E.U.” (with Jonathan P. Armstrong), BNA International’s World Internet Law Report, December 2005
  • “At Risk: a Secure Net,” Legal Times, week of August 14, 2000
  • “Internet is Ripe for Government Intervention,” Los Angeles Times, April 6, 2000

Presentations

  • “The Year of Location Privacy?”, RSA Conference, San Francisco, CA, March 1, 2013
  • “Cybercrime: The Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act, and Beyond,” RSA Conference, San Francisco, CA, April 23, 2009
  • “Three Rules of Data Security,” Hispanic National Bar Association Continuing Legal Education meeting, Washington, D.C., October 15, 2005
  • “Cyber Security – The Right Way,” Center for Strategic and International Studies Forum, January 2004
  • “Cyber Security Regulation is Here!,” 12th Annual RSA Security Conference, April 15, 2003
  • “Cyber Security: What Consumers & Government Should Do,” FTC Consumer Information Security Workshop, May 20, 2002
  • “The Right Way to Promote Cyber Security,” 11th Annual RSA Security Conference, February 19, 2002
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