Mike Godwin served as the first Staff Counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where he informed users of electronic networks about their legal rights and responsibilities, instructed criminal lawyers and law enforcement personnel about computer civil liberties issues, and conducted seminars about civil liberties in electronic communication for a wide range of groups. Currently a senior policy fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology, he also remains an "IP Land" columnist for The American Lawyer magazine, and is a contributing editor at Reason.