Denise Backhouse

Practice Areas

Class Action; eDiscovery; International Employment Law; Litigation and Trials; Privacy and Data Security.

Career

Reinforcing the firm's commitment to providing its clients with leading-edge solutions in the rapidly developing area of eDiscovery, Denise provides focused guidance and expertise on information governance and electronic discovery matters to Littler's lawyers and their clients.

Backhouse is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E). She is a frequent lecturer on eDiscovery and data protection issues, including on such topics as developing trends, cross-border discovery, data protection and privacy, and privilege and ethics in eDiscovery.

Additionally, Backhouse is a founding director of the Cardozo Data Law Initiative (CDLI), Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University and serves on the Steering Committee of the American Bar Association Cross-Border Discovery Institute and the Working Group Series Leadership Council of The Sedona Conference®.

Publications

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), International Corporate Practice, Practicing Law Institute, Chapter Co-Author, March 2022

Cyber Evidence, Corporate Criminal Defense: Compliance, Investigation, and Trial Strategies, Aspen Publishers, Chapter Author, 2012 and 2013

Social Media and Employment, Labour & Employment, Getting the Deal Through, Law Business Research Ltd., Contributing Author, 2011, 2012 and 2013

Professional Memberships

American Law Institute; International Data Law Association - Founding Member, Board of Directors; American Bar Association Annual Cross-Border Institute: The Interplay Between Global Discovery, Privacy and Data Security, 2023; American Bar Association Annual Cross-Border Institute: The Interplay Between Global Discovery, Privacy and Data Security, 2017-2023

Education