Alan J. Thiemann
Alan has practiced law in Washington, DC for almost 45 years. He is Of Counsel to the Seattle law firm of Han Santos, PLLC, where he leads the cybersecurity/privacy practice group.
Between government service, in-house trade association experience, and private practice, he has represented clients before more than a dozen federal departments and agencies. He has broad trial and appellate litigation experience in federal and state courts and he has lobbied Congress and state legislatures on testing, tax, education, employment/labor relations, environmental, and transportation legislation.
Alan has been in private practice since 1987, representing businesses and non-profit organizations on a wide variety of regulatory, legislative, and commercial business matters, including domestic and international intellectual property product development, software and product licensing, and issues surrounding emerging technologies, including data security and privacy.
In 1988, Alan was selected as legislative counsel by the Association of Personnel Test Publishers, which role continued when the Association of Test Publishers was formed. He was named General Counsel in 2016.
For 30+ years, Alan has represented the testing industry on a variety of federal and state legislative and regulatory matters, from handling of “high stakes” tests, to efforts to ban or restrict the use of testing, to how various testing laws should be implemented. He has also provided legal guidance on ATP’s involvement in developing standards and best practices, from ISO 10667 on the delivery of occupational assessments, to operational best practices for statewide large-scale assessments in K-12 education, to online proctoring. He has coordinated the testing industry’s fight over procedures to copyright “secure test” content. Alan has served as legal advisor on the ATP’s security committee publications, including US/EU Privacy Shield Checklist and the EU GDPR Guidelines, as well as the “Privacy in Practice Bulletins” series.