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Privacy & Data Security: Healthcare - USA - Nationwide

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What the Team is Known For

McDermott Will & Emery continues to display impressive strength in the healthcare sector. Renowned for its excellent HIPAA practice, with a strong US base and key locations nationally to provide an expansive service. Also advises clients on privacy-related matters concerning M&A and other transactions, as well as advising clients on GDPR compliance, class actions and investigations by the FTC, OCR and FCC. Additional expertise in cyber crises, e-commerce and internal investigations. Called in to handle breaches and ransomware attacks affecting healthcare companies.

Work Highlights

  • McDermott Will & Emery LLP represented National Spine and Pain Centers in a class action dispute under the Telephone Consumer Protect Act.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Alexander Southwell
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Alexander Southwell
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Alexander Southwell represents clients on myriad privacy and data security matters, notably including cybersecurity. His practice is focused on contentious issues, class actions and regulatory investigations and frequently sees him representing household names in enforcement actions.

Alex Southwell is an outstanding attorney and we appreciate his continued support.

Alexander is practical and superb.

He is a go-to resource for many of our most critical matters at our company.

Alexander is fantastic, my go-to person for difficult regulatory work in the US. He has a very calm demeanor, very thoughtful and good at managing balance in regulatory engagements.

Ed Zacharias
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Ed Zacharias
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Ed Zacharias co-head of the firms Digital Health practice and is noted for his in-depth experience in guiding healthcare technology companies through incidents, investigations and compliance matters.

Ed is one of my favorite attorneys and people to work with. His insights are invaluable.

Ed is a really great lawyer, really well versed in a lot of broad issues across the industry for privacy.

I have a lot of respect for Ed. He is a smart guy and plugged into more sophisticated issues.

Ed is great to work with - very knowledgeable and attentive to our needs.

Daniel Gottlieb
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Daniel Gottlieb
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Daniel Gottlieb is a healthcare privacy specialist, advising businesses and investors in the sector on both general and healthcare-specific regulations.

He has very good, substantive knowledge of privacy regulation and how it might be interpreted in an enforcement environment.

He's incredibly in tune with the details and minutiae of the regulatory space, has amazing balance in terms of client service/interpersonal skills and communicates the issues to a diverse audience.

I have worked with Daniel for over 20 years and he is always my first choice.

Daniel is an invaluable resource to us. He is knowledgeable, available, and thorough in his guidance. He has deep industry insight and is always a pleasure to work with.

Elliot Golding
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Elliot Golding
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Elliot Golding is adept at advising clients in sectors inclusive of automotive, health/life sciences and technology, on national and international data matters covering compliance, data transfers and governance and issues arising from new laws.

Elliot doesn't just give you the rule of law he tells you what everyone else is doing, which is often a risk calculation for us. Goes through all of the angles and helps us come to an answer.

Elliot is patient, trustworthy, highly knowledgeable and extremely reliable. His technical knowledge is a major asset in implementing practical, business minded solutions.

Elliot is a very proactive and engaged lawyer who is excellent.

Elliot has a wealth of knowledge in the area of privacy and data security. He stays up to date with current legal issues and takes initiative to predict foreseeable issues that may affect his clients.

Elliot has been a great partner and counsel on numerous matters. His support has been instrumental in moving our business forward and making sure we're compliant and ahead of the regulatory curve.

Michael Morgan
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Michael Morgan
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Michael Morgan leads the firm's Global Privacy & Cybersecurity practice group and is regarded highly for his work in compliance, incident response, cybersecurity and data breaches.

Michael has a deep understanding of data security and privacy law, and is able to identify issues and advise on risk mitigation approaches in a business friendly, practical manner.

What I most appreciate about Michael is he's very down to earth and very knowledgeable. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of privacy.

He's been above and beyond professional. He's been very accessible, he's knowledgeable and we've had some good results.

Michael is an ideal partner who provides thoughtful counsel. We couldn't do what we do without him and he's helping us to rethink and reshape our work.

Ranked Lawyers at
McDermott Will & Emery LLP

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USA - Nationwide

Privacy & Data Security: Healthcare

Ed Zacharias
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Ed Zacharias
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Daniel Gottlieb
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Daniel Gottlieb
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Privacy & Data Security: Litigation

Alexander Southwell
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Alexander Southwell
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Privacy & Data Security: Privacy

Elliot Golding
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Elliot Golding
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Band 5
Michael Morgan
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Michael Morgan
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Band 5

Members

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Amy C. Pimentel

David P. Saunders

Mark Schreiber

Michael Morgan

Scott Ferber

Todd McClelland