Rachel Waters counsels companies, entrepreneurs and emerging businesses. Her practice focuses on advertising, product and privacy counseling in the digital commerce, software, and beauty and wellness industries, including affiliate and online marketing. In addition to counseling her clients, Ms. Waters handles disputes at all stages, including pre-litigation dispute resolution, intellectual property enforcement and protection, discovery, dispositive motions, and trial.
Ms. Waters is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). She is admitted to practice law in California and Vermont.
Prior to joining GRSM, Ms. Waters was General Counsel for The Control Group Media Company (now known as “PeopleConnect”), a profitable and growing software and marketing company. While at The Control Group, she advised the company, including its flagship brands TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate, on wide-ranging topics including risk management of a large affiliate marketing division, corporate governance, contract and vendor negotiation, litigation management, employment matters, privacy regulations and other compliance issues. Prior to her General Counsel role, Ms. Waters was a litigation associate at a national law firm.
Ms. Waters began her legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Terrence W. Boyle of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. During law school, she served on the Editorial Board of the Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy.
Admissions
California
Vermont
U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
Memberships
CIPP/US, IAPP
Member, ABA
Member, Vermont Bar Association
Community Involvement
President, Board of Directors, Child Care Center Norwich