Max L. Landaw

Senior Counsel

310.339.9968

mlandaw@infolawgroup.com

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About MAX

Max L. Landaw, Senior Counsel at InfoLawGroup, has over a decade of legal experience focused on counseling businesses of all kinds, with a particular focus on technology companies and businesses operating in closely regulated markets.  Max keeps abreast of technological developments that carry legal consequences and counsels clients on vendor transactions, privacy compliance, intellectual property protection, and marketing initiatives.

A significant part of Max’s practice involves real money gaming. He advises on the state and federal law governing sweepstakes, casino games, sports wagering, fantasy sports, lottery and lottery courier services, charitable raffles and bingo, skill gaming, and esports, including the licensing requirements attached to each. Max reviews gaming operators and their apps and websites at volume, preparing written risk assessments that clients rely on to decide whether and where an offering can proceed, and he maintains state-by-state analyses of what each category of gaming requires. Much of that analysis turns on the line between skill and chance (a distinction Max understands concretely as a chess Candidate Master), which shapes everything from licensing requirements to where an offering can legally operate. 

Max also serves as embedded counsel to in-house legal teams. On an extended secondment with a global technology company, he worked alongside product and engineering teams as new features, tools, and vendors were proposed, identifying the privacy implications and risks of each before development proceeded. That work spanned consumer-facing product privacy, geolocation, messaging services, trust and safety systems, and the use of facial recognition technologies. On a separate privacy coverage engagement, Max handled the full range of day-to-day privacy work: negotiating the privacy terms in commercial contracts, product counseling, responding to domestic and international data subject access requests, managing regulatory investigations, and data breach response.

Max advises on privacy law across more than fifteen jurisdictions spanning six continents, from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Switzerland, India, Israel, South Africa, the Gulf States, and markets across Asia Pacific. He drafts data protection agreements and addenda covering both controller-to-controller and controller-to-processor transfers, builds reusable templates for clients handling the same categories of vendor repeatedly, and advises on responding to data subject requests and inquiries from international supervisory authorities.

Max advises on AI governance and on the legal issues raised by AI. He drafts AI governance and acceptable use policies, including standards for which tools and use cases a business should approve and standard operating procedures for agentic AI. He analyzes clients’ use and development of AI technology, negotiates AI-related provisions in contracts, and counsels on the intellectual property and confidentiality risks raised by AI tools including meeting notetakers. Max has worked with the EU AI Act, and his AI practice frequently intersects with his biometrics work, where he advises on biometric data processing terms in vendor agreements and on biometric and fraud identification systems across multiple jurisdictions.

In helping clients implement privacy by design and default, Max also advises companies with regard to internal technology development and technology acquisitions. He regularly supports new product launches, diving deep into a company’s technology stack so that his advice fits how the product actually functions. Max negotiates SaaS agreements, software licenses, end user license agreements, developer and API agreements, and vendor and supplier agreements, and counsels on risks in licensing transactions and on open source software obligations.

Max is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (“IAPP”) and holds the CIPP/E, CIPP/US, and AIGP (Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional) certifications.