OMLN Staff
David Ardia (Director): David is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He received his J.D. degree, summa cum laude, from Syracuse University College of Law in 1996 and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. Prior to coming to the Berkman Center, he was assistant counsel at The Washington Post and before that was an associate at Williams & Connolly in Washington, DC, where he handled a range of intellectual property and media litigation. While at Williams & Connolly, David also performed pre-publication libel review for the National Enquirer and In Touch Weekly. David is a former member of the Newspaper Association of America’s Legal Affairs Committee and is a current member of the First Amendment and Media Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association, the Media Law Committee of the District of Columbia Bar, and the New England Media Lawyers Group.
Kimberley Isbell (Staff Attorney): Kimberley is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. She received her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 2000, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Law Record and President of the HLS Civil Liberties Union. Prior to joining the Berkman Center, she was an associate at law firms in Washington, DC and Richmond, Virginia. While in private practice, Kimberley specialized in many aspects of domestic and international intellectual property and technology counseling, prosecution and litigation, with an emphasis on intellectual property, technology, Internet and e-commerce licenses and agreements; domain name disputes; clearance, registration and management of trademark assets; advertising review; promotions law; and litigation and dispute resolution related to intellectual property and technology, with an emphasis on trademark and copyright matters. Kimberley is the former chair of the American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section's Committee 205 – Trade Identity and Unfair Competition.
Helen Fu (Staff Attorney): Helen is a Public Interest Attorney at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. She received her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 2009. Prior to law school, she was a research associate at the Urban Institute studying the impact of education policy reforms. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 2001 with degrees in biology and economics.