Practices
Cyber/Data/Privacy
Guiding the world’s top companies and their boards and executives across the full spectrum of cybersecurity, data protection, and privacy issues
Why Cooley
- Nearly 100 lawyers globally counseling on privacy, cybersecurity and data protection matters
- Holistic approach to compliance and security, built to preserve and protect enterprise value
- Market-leading experience successfully navigating clients through privacy and data breach litigation
- Comprehensive and timely guidance through CooleyREG, our innovative approach that brings together regulatory practitioners from across the firm to help clients navigate every regulatory twist and turn
Cyber
- 24x7 incident response team
- Advised on the most significant of security incidents of the past decade
- Brokered contracts with forensic, cybersecurity, crisis communication and related companies for urgent incident response situations
- Defended Google and Facebook in data breach class actions
- Team includes a former commissioner for the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency
Data
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), governance, outsourcing, licensing and more
- Global creation, use and commercialization strategies
- Retention, security and destruction programs
privacy
- Law 360’s Cybersecurity & Privacy Practice Group of the Year
- Significant class actions in recent years for clients including Google, Facebook/Meta Platforms, Zoom, LinkedIn, Coinbase and eBay
- Regularly defend clients, including Chegg, in privacy and security investigations by the Federal Trade Commission, state attorneys general, and other regulatory bodies
- Team includes a former senior adviser to then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris, former chief of the Federal Communication Commission’s Enforcement Bureau, and presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed member of the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
24x7 incident response team
In the event of a suspected data incident, members of Cooley's data incident and breach response team can be reached at
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Recognition
- The Legal 500 US: Tier 1 Ranking for Cyber Law (including Data Privacy and Data Protection)
- Chambers: Privacy & Data Security
- Law360: Cybersecurity & Privacy Practice Group of the Year
- Vault: #1 on Best Firms for Privacy & Data Security list
Cooley has successfully litigated a wide range of cases involving privacy and data breach issues, including class actions and government enforcement actions.
