Business Lawyers with over 25 Years of Experience
898 N. Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 475, El Segundo, California 90245
Tel: (424) 220-8600 | Email: diana@iketanilaw.com
Why Use a Boutique Firm?
Bigger isn't always better. We have worked in BigLaw and understand that you need an experienced, trusted advisor by your side when you are navigating the ever-changing world of privacy and data security. Our attorneys are seasoned privacy lawyers, litigators and privacy consultants. We are certified by the IAPP for European, Asian, and U.S. Privacy, as well as privacy program management. We have been in the trenches of data breach response, government investigations, crisis management, and forensics analysis. We know data privacy and security -- and we know risk management.
We specialize in providing you and your company with real world advice. We are not just lawyers, but business partners to our clients. We achieve quick and efficient results that match our clients' goals. Our prices are competitive and we have the flexibility to offer flat rates, monthly retainers, or hourly rates, depending on the project.
We work with our clients to develop strategies for compliance that keep legal costs down and keep the business running. We advise our clients on applicable privacy laws, including the "alphabet soup" of privacy (CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA, COPPA, VCDPA, CPA, LGPD, GDPR, PIPEDA and more). We can help you craft easy-to-understand privacy policies and terms of use and implement effective processes for data subject access/deletion/correction/limitation/Do Not Sell requests. We negotiate privacy and data sharing terms in your service agreements and prepare data processing addenda, business associate agreements, and data use and sharing agreements where needed. We can help you implement a global data security program that works for your company and we can help you create workflows and conduct privacy impact assessments and privacy audits where needed for privacy compliance.
We also advise businesses by providing outside general counsel services. If you don't have a fully staffed legal department or even a single lawyer in your organization, our lawyers can guide you by providing timely advice for your business needs. From contracts to leases to pre-litigation and more, we will stand by your side to provide guidance through your toughest decisions.
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- Interim/Acting General Counsel for complex business operations and managed company issues relating to contracts, data privacy, security, training, policies and procedures, and regulatory enforcement.
- Advise companies in technology, entertainment, e-commerce, SaaS, real estate development, restaurant, hospitality, professional services, publishing and academia regarding ongoing compliance with privacy law, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
- Prepare privacy policies, privacy notices, terms of use, cookie consent disclosures, notices to employees, data processing addenda, business associate agreements and other documents required under applicable privacy state, federal and international laws.
- Implement consumer and data subject access request policies and procedures.
- Assist with registration for and use of the US-EU/UK/Swiss Data Privacy Framework.
- Supervise client data mapping and data flow analyses.
- Conduct extensive contract drafting and review to include GDPR and CCPA provisions in service provider and vendor agreements.
- Initiate and manage vendor due diligence and privacy impact assessment evaluations.
- Manage breach and data incident response, including liaising with law enforcement and regulatory entities, auditors, forensics teams, and assisting before and during litigation, regulatory inquiry, and government enforcement.
- Analyze and evaluate potential data breach/incursions for clients, working in cooperation with forensics and information technology teams.
- Counsel clients during ransomware events or other security incidents.
- Guide clients on security incident investigation, containment, notification and mitigation.
- Advise on privacy issues during due diligence for mergers and acquisition transactions.
- Represented musicians and entertainers in contract disputes, copyright and trademark infringement, and licensing disputes.
- Prosecuted and defended claims on behalf of producer and distributor of entertainment titles in copyright infringement matters.
- Managed two-year investigation of financial services client by state regulatory agency.
- First chair in Department of Health and Human Services administrative hearing relating to Medicare billing privileges.
- First chair in California OAH administrative hearing defending speech therapy service provider in audit by Department of Developmental Services.
- Defended financial advisor in arbitration of breach of fiduciary duty and negligence claims related to sales of securities and other investments.
- Served on of team of attorneys as Special Counsel to a Select Committee of Inquiry of the Connecticut General Assembly considering whether to recommend the impeachment of former Governor John Rowland.
- Obtained dismissal of major online dating service from negligence action alleging liability for user interaction.
- Litigated music royalty action for prolific producer and composer of music from Motown and disco eras.
- Resolved royalty action on behalf of distributor of nature sound CDs after jury trial in federal court.
- Obtained dismissal on behalf of manufacturer and distributor of CDs, along with 11 retail stores who sold product, in action alleging violations of California's unfair competition statute.
- Successfully defended FOIA request by media for government records of online ticketing company's arena agreements.
- Obtained speedy resolution on behalf of distributor of compilation CDs of action for alleged invasion of privacy under Ohio statute for use of stock photography on CD packaging.
- Obtained summary judgment in favor of national retailer on issue of whether retailer storefronts constitute public forums for alleged free speech activities.
- Defended proceeding before California Labor Commissioner alleging violations by music producer of the Talent Agencies Act.
- Prepared permanent guardianship and special juvenile immigrant status (SIJS) applications in pro bono matters for Guatemalan and Mexican juveniles abandoned by parents.
- Obtained U-Visa status for crime victims who suffered physical and mental abuse and assist local, county and state law enforcement in the investigation and prosecution of those crimes.
- Prepared pro bono conservatorship applications for developmentally disabled young adults.
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