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Privacy & Data Security: Highly Regarded - USA - Nationwide

3
Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Freshfield's privacy and security practice leverages its global relations to handle national and cross-border matters regarding data breaches, regulatory investigations, risk management, data fraud, cybersecurity and incident response. Leveraging a bench of former FTC commissioners and investigators, the firm is highly equipped to respond to complex challenges for clients in the technology, financial services and automotive sectors.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Christine E Lyon
3
Christine E Lyon
3
Band 3

Christine Lyon of Freshfields is the global cochair of the firm's privacy practice, with deep experience in privacy counseling. She is noted for her ability to advise clients in the technology, life sciences and retail sectors.

Christine is very practical and provides quick responses. She has great and extensive privacy law subject matter knowledge, is reliable, thoughtful and very pleasant to work with.

Christine is very approachable, savvy, connected in this space and can give that extra layer of what's going on behind the scenes and where the law is going.

Beth George
5
Beth George
5
Band 5
Beth George is held in high regard for her ability to advise clients on crisis management and preparation.

Beth is a very, very talented lawyer. She is highly sought after in multifaceted cases. Incredibly talented.

Beth is really an incredibly smart lawyer. She is extremely good at the big picture and looking at a situation holistically, figuring out the issues and determining and communicating risk profiles.

Beth has a ton of presence and is good at understanding the pulse of things. She brings presence and confidence when working with clients.

Beth has an ability to communicate complex issues in a relevant and digestible way.

Timothy Howard
5
Timothy Howard
5
Band 5

Timothy Howard, former chief of complex frauds and cybercrime for the US Attorney's office, has an extensive background in privacy and data protection, particularly regarding white-collar crime. He regularly represent companies facing data breaches and internal investigations by the DOJ, SEC and FTC.

Timothy is very responsive and is passionate about the work he does.

Timothy is phenomenal. He understands the landscape and has that ability to balance detail with simplicity.

Timothy is very thorough, precise, detailed and extremely responsive.

Timothy is a fantastic attorney, super bright, an excellent writer and advocate. He has good litigation chops, is pretty unflappable and has government connections.

Tim is the absolute best. He's available 24/7, personable, and truly wants to mesh the right legal strategy with what is best for the business. His knowledge of the law is superb.

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USA - Nationwide

Privacy & Data Security: Cybersecurity

Timothy Howard
5
Timothy Howard
5
Band 5
Privacy & Data Security: Privacy

Christine E Lyon
3
Christine E Lyon
3
Band 3
Beth George
5
Beth George
5
Band 5

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