Biography
Victoria Prussen Spears, who was the valedictorian of her community college class, earned a near-perfect grade point average at Sarah Lawrence College before she graduated as a Richardson Merit Scholar, cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School. In law school, Ms. Spears studied international law, was a research editor for the Brooklyn Journal of International Law, and was a member of the Moot Court Honor Society.
After law school, Ms. Spears was an attorney for Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, a prominent multinational Wall Street law firm; she subsequently opened her own private legal practice.
Ms. Spears now is a researcher, writer, editor, analyst, and marketing consultant for Meyerowitz Communications Inc., a marketing communications consulting company that works with some of the largest and most successful domestic and international law firms in the world and that provides editing, analysis, and writing services to major legal and business publishers and other businesses. In addition, Ms. Spears is the Associate Director of FC&S Legal: The Insurance Coverage Law Information Center. She also is the Editor of the Insurance Coverage Law Report, The Banking Law Journal, Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law, Pratt's Energy Law Report, Pratt's Government Contracting Law Report, Pratt's Privacy & Cybersecurity Law Report, the Editor of and “Thought Leaders” columnist for Employee Benefit Plan Review, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Employee Relations Law Journal.
Ms. Spears, who co-authored the 2014 Insurance Coverage Law Case Digest, a state-by-state privacy and data security law book and Outsourcing Destinations: Mexico 2013 with Steven A. Meyerowitz, and who served as a member of the Board of Editors of, and as the “Landmarks” columnist for, the Privacy & Data Security Law Journal, continues to regularly write/edit articles on business and legal topics relating to banking law, bankruptcy, employee benefits, intellectual property, labor/employment law, and real estate finance, and consults on a wide variety of marketing, business, and strategic planning issues for Meyerowitz Communications and its clients.
Curriculum VitaeVICTORIA PRUSSEN SPEARS, ESQ.
vpspears@meyerowitzcommunications.com
EXPERIENCE
Meyerowitz Communications Inc., Floral Park, NY
- Senior Vice President 2004-present
Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law
Pratt's Energy Law Report
Pratt's Government Contracting Law Report
Pratt's Privacy & Cybersecurity Law Report
The Banking Law Journal
Lexis/Nexis Publications
- Editor 2014-present
- Editor 2014-present
FC&S Legal: The Insurance Coverage Law Information Center
- Associate Director 2012-present
Insurance Coverage Law Report
- Editor 2012-present
- Co-Founder & CEO 2012-2013
Victoria Prussen Spears, P.C., Rocky Point, NY
- Private Legal Practice
- Of Counsel to Johannesen & Johannesen, LLC
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, New York, NY
- Associate, Corporate Department
- Summer Associate
Honorable Ettore Simeone, Family Court, Suffolk County, Central Islip, NY
- Judicial Intern
Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY
- Teaching Assistant, Legal Process and Writing
- Research Assistant, Professor Jennifer Rosato
EDUCATION
State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
- Master of Professional Studies (anticipated) — GPA: 4.0
Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY
- Juris Doctor, Cum Laude, 2000
- Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Research Editor
- Moot Court Honor Society
- Richardson Merit Scholar
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
- Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts 1997 — GPA: 3.96
Clinton Community College, Plattsburgh, NY
- Associate in Arts in Liberal Arts 1991 — GPA: 4.0
- Valedictorian
- Phi Theta Kappa
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
- 2014 Insurance Coverage Law Case Digest, co-author, The National Underwriter Company, 2014 (with Steven A. Meyerowitz)
- Outsourcing Destinations: Mexico, co-author, Global Outsourcing Information Inc., 2012 (with Steven A. Meyerowitz)
- State-by-State Privacy and Data Security Law, co-author, Sheshunoff, 2009 (with Steven A. Meyerowitz)
- Companies Doing Business in Mexico Should Focus On New Anti-Corruption Law, Financial Fraud Law Report, September 2012
- Globalization’s Impact on Legal Services: The American Bar Association Weighs In, Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal, August 2012
- Failure to Show “Strict Compliance” with State Requirements Dooms Mortgage Foreclosure Action, The Banking Law Journal, July/August 2011
- Art Trumps Creditors’ Rights Against a Dissolving Non-Profit Museum, Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law, February/March 2011 (with Steven A. Meyerowitz)
- Landmarks: Wiretaps, Searches and Seizures, and the Famous Brandeis Dissent: Olmstead v. U.S., Privacy & Data Security Law Journal, April 2009
- Landmarks: How Private Is a Home? The Supreme Court Says Local Zoning Rules Can Trump an Individual’s Choice of Roommates: Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas, Privacy & Data Security Law Journal, February 2009
- Landmarks: The Case That Started It All: Roberson v. The Rochester Folding Box Company, Privacy & Data Security Law Journal, November 2008
- Landmarks: Roe v. Wade: 35 Years Young, and Once Again a Factor in a Presidential Race, Privacy & Data Security Law Journal, September 2008
- Landmarks: Griswold v. Connecticut and the “Penumbra” of Privacy, Privacy & Data Security Law Journal, August 2008
- Employment Background Investigations: Federal Circuit Court Issues New Ruling That Supports Broad Employee Privacy Rights, Privacy & Data Security Law Journal, July 2008
- Employment Background Investigations: How Far Can The Government Go?, Privacy & Data Security Law Journal, May 2008
- Court Boosts Federal Preemption in Stored Value Gift Card Case, Journal of Payment Systems Law, October 2006
- SEC Proposes New Rule for Disclosure of Equity Compensation Plan Information, Lead Article, Stroock Capital Markets, May 2001
- SEC and NASD Adopt Rules Regulating Activities of Banks: Banks Oppose Broker-Dealer Rules, Stroock Capital Markets, June 2001
PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE/AFFILIATIONS
- New York State Bar
- FC&S Legal: The Insurance Coverage Law Information Center, Associate Director
- Employee Benefit Plan Review, “Thought Leaders” Columnist
- Employee Relations Law Journal, Editorial Advisory Board