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Polsinelli PC

Privacy & Data Security: Healthcare

Global Guide 2026 : USA


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Privacy & Data Security: Healthcare - USA

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What the Team is Known For
Polsinelli is renowned for its team of experienced practitioners, often previously in a privacy government role. It is a go-to firm for HIPAA advice for clients in the healthcare industry. The team has further experience of assisting clients with incident responses and related class actions. The practitioners are adept at handling issues containing cross-border elements.
Strengths

The Polsinelli team is innovative and creative when novel questions arise, collaboratively and their high level of responsiveness distinguish them from others.

Polsinelli have a good amount of breadth in their team. They have lawyers that look at different issues from different perspectives such as litigation, regulatory as well as the business perspective.

Polsinelli provides specialized services related to cybersecurity breach events and skilled professionals knowledgeable of the law in that area.

Polsinelli has excellent negotiation skills. Always does a thorough investigation and liability analysis and is prepared to rebut any allegations/arguments against our clients without hesitation.

Polsinelli have superior expertise and knowledge, responsiveness and follow through. They have strong partners across international data privacy issues and are great business partners.

Notable practitioners
Iliana Peters
Iliana Peters of Polsinelli specializes in the intersection of privacy law with the healthcare sector, including the protection of electronic health and HIPAA compliance.

Iliana's experience as a former OCR investigator enables her to give quick, practical advice to clients.

Iliana has deep knowledge and expertise in all privacy matters, especially HIPAA, HHS, and OCR. She is very valuable to me and we will always reach out to her first on privacy matters.

Iliana has a really strong regulatory background. She maintains knowledge of what is going on from the litigation perspective and is good at bringing issues and complex topics down to practical levels

Iliana is very inclusive, she knows the inside of the regulatory space and is very approachable. She provides excellent client service.


John Thomas Malatesta
John Thomas Malatesta handles a wide spectrum of cybersecurity issues including class actions and investigations. He also has notable experience of responding to ransomware attacks.

John is very smart and very good with strategy.

John is a prominent force in the cybersecurity space especially for financial industries.


Starr Turner Drum
Starr Turner Drum has a burgeoning practice in this space. She is noted for her ability to represent clients in complex privacy litigation, as well as investigations by regulatory bodies such as the FTC and OCR.

Starr's advice reflects thorough understanding of the privacy landscape, ability to anticipate legal implications of business decisions and creativity when challenging facts require novel solutions.

Starr is an expert in privacy regulation.

Starr has superior expertise and responsiveness. A great business partner.

Starr is an expert in the space on both international and state rules. She is expert at flipping things in a quick and understandable manner.

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