Lane Blumenfeld
Attorney, Member of the Firm
Phone: 202-656-1656
Email: LBlumenfeld@outsidegc.com
Lane is an accomplished international business attorney with nearly two decades of in-house and private practice experience, including as general counsel and corporate secretary to both public and privately-held global communications and technology companies.
Lane joined Outside GC in 2012, after running his own law firm, VIRTUAL In-House Counsel, for almost seven years. At VIRTUAL, he was a leading voice in challenging the conventional legal services model. At Outside GC, Lane teams up with one of the most successful innovators of alternative legal services.
Lane has served as general counsel and corporate secretary for Savvis, Inc., a publicly-held provider of cloud computing infrastructure services to over fifty countries, and as general counsel and corporate secretary for Voxiva, Inc., a SaaS-based provider of interactive mobile health services. He has also served in senior capacities for Teleglobe and Loral Orion, both of which were leading global communications companies. Prior to his first in-house stint, Lane was an attorney at the international law firm Latham & Watkins. Earlier in his career, Lane was country manager of a non-profit, USAID-funded project in Moscow, where he advised the Russian government on commercial law reform. He has also taught as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and published articles in leading journals, including the ABA’s International Lawyer.
Lane holds a J.D. from the Yale Law School, a Masters in International Affairs, with concentrations in International Economics and Eurasian Studies, from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a B.A. magna cum laude, with a triple major in History, Government, and Russian Studies, from Cornell University. At Cornell, Lane won the Chyrstall Prize for the best thesis on diplomacy. He is licensed to practice law in both the District of Columbia and State of New York.
Active in the Washington, DC community, Lane has served as president of the alumni board at Georgetown Day School and is a recipient of the school’s distinguished alumni award. He has served on the Johns Hopkins University alumni advisory council and is a past board member and current coach for Northwest DC Little League. For Children’s Hospital in DC, he has raised funds to provide kids from Africa with life-saving cardiac care.
An avid outdoorsman, Lane has completed the National Outdoor Leadership School’s Outdoor Educator program and is certified as a Wilderness First Responder and Leave No Trace Master Educator. He lives in DC’s Palisades’ neighborhood with his wife Elizabeth, also an attorney, and their two sons – Samuel and Zachary.