Max G. Mazzelli

Max Mazzelli is a member of the firm’s Litigation & Trial Department and specializes in government and internal investigations, litigation, and counseling, with a focus on data privacy, AI, consumer protection, and cybersecurity.

Max represents public and private technology companies in inquiries, investigative demands, enforcement, and litigation by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), state AGs, and other US and global government regulators, agencies, and bodies, as well as internal investigations, into issues involving compliance with data privacy and AI laws and regulations as well as consumer protection principles.

Max counsels technology clients on privacy and internet issues as they relate to product proposals, compliance programs, and regulatory / litigation strategy, with a particular focus on US state privacy and AI laws (e.g., CCPA, CAIA), FTC requirements, GDPR, COPPA, BIPA, ECPA and wiretap issues, behavioral advertising and social media, and security incidents.

Additionally, he provides transactional support on privacy- and cyber-related issues as well as data-related national security rules.

Max donates a substantial amount of time to pro bono work, including representing a single mother in a habitability dispute against her landlord, representing an individual unlawfully transferred by local law enforcement to federal immigration authorities, and assisting individuals seeking expungement of their prior criminal records to restore their employment prospects and to receive needed social services.

Max served as a law clerk to Judge G. Murray Snow of the US District Court for the District of Arizona. He received his JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where he graduated first in his class and was the production editor for the Hastings Law Journal.

Prior to joining Latham, Max was a judicial extern for Judge Charles R. Breyer of the US District Court for the Northern District of California.