Amazon’s General Counsel David A. Zapolsky will speak at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law on Tuesday, November 16. The event, “Law and Evolving Technologies: A Conversation with David A. Zapolsky, General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Amazon.com, Inc.” will be held from 12:45 to 2 p.m. in Room 140 of the Law Building and is presented by Kline Law’s Center for Law and Transformational Technology.

Zapolsky joined Amazon as associate general counsel for litigation and regulatory matters in 1999. He became general counsel and senior vice president in 2014. Prior to Amazon, Zapolsky practiced law at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz in New York and was a partner at the offices of Dorsey & Whitney and Bogle & Gates in Seattle. He also served as an assistant district attorney in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office shortly after receiving his JD, with honors, from University of California, Berkeley.