Jonathan Neiditz

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Jon Neiditz co-leads the Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Governance Practice at Kilpatrick Townsend. One of the first lawyers to focus broadly on data governance and knowledge asset protection, he remains the only person recognized by Best Lawyers in America® both for Information Management Law and for Privacy and Data Security Law, and most recently he has been recognized for Technology Law and by BTI as a 2022 Client Service All-Star. For decades Jon has helped clients anticipate, obviate, and manage information privacy and security risks; appropriately monetize information; comply with privacy, data protection and cybersecurity laws around the world in pragmatic ways; and contain and prevent harm from incidents while maximizing resilience and minimizing regulatory issues. Jon has always collaborated with clients and peers on pragmatic innovation; for example, in the 1990s, he helped to define what accountable health care and health care reform might look like; in the 2000s he helped to invent multi-disciplinary incident response and the role of the “breach coach” and to define proportionate search in e-discovery; and in the 2010s he helped pioneer governance of “big data” and protection of “crown jewels.” Jon has been selected as a “Cybersecurity Trailblazer” by the National Law Journal, as a Ponemon Fellow, and by Who’s Who Legal for Data Law. Jon is certified by the IAPP in Europe as well as in the U.S. (CIPP/E, CIPP/US and CIPM).

Jon has a B.A., magna cum laude with high distinction in anthropology and citations in religion and classics courses, and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of Regulation and codirected the Hospital Legal Services Clinic.