About Travis

Travis co-chairs Cooley’s global cyber/data/privacy practice. He is a top authority on cybersecurity, data privacy, telecommunications, and the regulation of emerging and innovative technologies. Drawing on his broad experience in federal and state government, he helps clients manage regulatory and litigation risk, as well as strategically respond to data breaches, cyberattacks, nation-state attacks, dissemination of stolen data, misinformation campaigns and government enforcement efforts, including those by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and state attorneys general. Travis has served on the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) since his 2019 presidential nomination and unanimous Senate confirmation as a board member on the independent agency tasked with ensuring that the government’s efforts to protect the US from terrorism appropriately safeguard privacy and civil liberties.

Litigation is rarely a first choice. I work to solve our clients’ problems efficiently, aggressively and strategically – whether in the marketplace, media, government agencies, legislatures, courts or all of the above.

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Experience

Admissions and credentials

  • California
  • District of Columbia

Rankings and accolades

Chambers USA: Privacy & Data Security: Litigation – Nationwide (2023 – 2025)

Chambers USA: Privacy & Data Security – Nationwide (2021 – 2025)

The Legal 500 US: Leading Lawyer in Cyber Law (Including Data Privacy and Data Protection) (2023 – 2025)

Daily Journal: Top Cyber Lawyer, 2019-2022

Daily Journal: Top 100 Lawyers in California, 2021-2022

The National Law Journal: Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Trailblazer

Co-chair of the American Bar Association’s National Institute on Cybersecurity Law, 2018-2022

Georgetown Cybersecurity Law Institute Advisory Board, 2018-2022

Incident Response 30 by Cybersecurity Docket, 2018-2022

Memberships and affiliations

  • American Bar Association (ABA)
  • American Law Institute
  • Center for Democracy and Technology, board member
  • Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) Advisory Board, board member
  • Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, advisory counsel
  • Future of Privacy Forum Advisory Board, board member
  • International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), board secretary
  • MLex Advisory Board, board member
  • American Bar Association’s National Institute on Cybersecurity Law, co-chair
  • Georgetown Cybersecurity Law Institute Advisory Board, board member
  • Truman Center for National Policy, board member

LeBlanc named as an attorney who has 'helped make a difference in the fight against criminal cyber activity and towards adding much needed layers of data security in an increasingly digital world of commerce.'

2017 Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Trailblazer by The National Law Journal

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