Celesq® Presenters

Steven W. Teppler is a partner of the firm, and the chair of the firm’s privacy and cybersecurity practice group. 

Steven is an ISACA-certified data privacy solutions engineer, who has been at the forefront of cybersecurity, data privacy and eDiscovery matters since 2000, and has extensive technology, blockchain and class action litigation experience. He also has deep hands-on experience stemming from his work to secure six cryptography patents, and his role leading a content authentication technology startup. 

Steven is a leader in the field of data privacy and cybersecurity, who publishes the blog Litigation Intelligence, and regularly lectures and teaches on the subject. 

He is the co-chair of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Information Security Committee; a past founding co-chair of the ABA’s Internet of Things Committee (2015-2017); founding past chair of the ABA’s Electronic Discovery and Digital Evidence Committee (2008-2015); and past chair and founding member of the Florida Bar’s eDiscovery and Digital Evidence Committee, which provided substantial input to the 2012 eDiscovery amendments to the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure. Steven is also a past chair and current member of the Standing Committee on Professional Ethics of the Florida Bar. 

In addition, Steven is a Professor of Practice, and lectures on cybersecurity at the University of South Florida, He also teaches an Electronic Discovery and Digital Evidence workshop as an adjunct professor of eDiscovery at Nova Southeastern University’s Shepard Broad College of Law.