As businesses today face an increasingly sophisticated threat environment compounded by aggressive regulatory enforcement, companies need a partner who can help mitigate risk and respond to the unthinkable. Our top ranked Data + Privacy + Cybersecurity practice is one of the longest-standing of any Am Law 50 firm. Our practice is fully integrated and leverages the firm's core strengths, with the group's lawyers coming from our technology, financial institutions, licensing, litigation, regulatory and appellate practices. Our unique approach, focusing on client needs and value, enables us to engage specialists whose experience is framed by a holistic understanding of clients' greatest risks in this threatening environment.
Coast to coast in the U.S. and on the ground in Europe, our talented group of privacy and cybersecurity specialists includes an experienced former Federal Prosecutor, former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of California and multiple GDPR, COPPA, HIPAA and CCPA experts.
Our practice provides a full spectrum of services from advice and counseling, to providing transaction-related advice, to defense of class action litigation and government enforcement actions. Having counseled on hundreds of data breaches and litigated landmark cases, we provide practical advice on all aspects of information-related management and risk before, during and after breaches. In addition to helping clients address privacy requirements and cybersecurity risks, we also help them develop data-driven products and services that leverage data to create value.
We offer a broad range of privacy and cybersecurity services including:
Advisory Services
- Due diligence for privacy, data security and information rights (M&A, IPOs, outsourcing, and private placements)
- Compliance and risk management (C-suite counsel, internal privacy and security program creation, policy development)
- Transaction and deal support (drafting and negotiation of agreements related to confidentiality, privacy and residual rights, strategic counseling for data enterprises)
- Compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and other international privacy laws
Litigation, Investigations, and Regulatory Services
- Consumer class action defense on privacy and data protection issues
- Defense of actions, inquiries, and investigations by the FTC, HHS, OCR, FCC, state Attorneys General, and financial regulators
- Security breach investigation and related incident response and crisis management
- Email, text, fax and telemarketing defense for organizations that communicate with consumers
- Assistance with litigation hold/destruction of evidence issues, motions practice, and eDiscovery
