Steven J. McDonald
Associate Legal Counsel
Ohio State University
Privacy, Technology, and Recordkeeping

Bio

Steven J. McDonald is an Associate Legal Counsel at The Ohio State University where he has handled a number of Internet-related legal matters ranging from alleged infringements of copyrighted materials on student web pages to investigations of computer break-ins to an e-mail death threat to Socks the cat. Before he came to Ohio State, he was in private practice at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue where he represented CompuServe in Cubby v. CompuServe, the first online libel case. He has also taught courses in Internet law at Ohio State’s College of Law and at Capital University Law School. He received his A.B. from Duke University in 1982 and his J.D. from The Yale Law School in 1985.