Our Privacy Law and Litigation Practice
Practice Areas
- Privacy and Data Security (CCPA, GDPR and other laws)
- Outside General Counsel Services
- Business Litigation
- Entertainment Litigation
- Contracts
- Negotiation
Experience
Representative Matters
- Lawyer advising 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, and other documents required under applicable privacy state, federal and international laws.
- Implement consumer and data subject access request policies and procedures.
- Supervise client data mapping and data flow analyses.
- Conduct extensive contract drafting and review to include GDPR and CCPA provisions in service provider 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.
- Counseled clients during ransomware events.
- Guide clients on security incident investigation, containment, and mitigation.
- 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.
- Prepared pro bono conservatorship applications for developmentally disabled young adults.
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