Maarja Pild-Freiberg

Maarja is an attorney at law with extensive knowledge and a wealth of experience in the fields of media and data protection law. Maarja has successfully represented clients in various litigation proceedings, incl. representing clients in the Court of Justice of the European Union. She the head of the IP-IT, Media and Data Protection competence group of the TRINITI Estonia office, and she is a member of the Estonian Press Council, a voluntary body of media self-regulation to handle complaints from the public about material in the media.

Maarja is an experienced attorney in the field of data protection and media law. She is the head of IP-IT, Media, and Data Protection competence group of the TRINITI Estonia office and a member of the Banking & Finance workgroup, which allows her to offer in-depth and industry-specific advice in day-to-day business and dispute matters.

She has represented clients in many complex disputes, both in court and through various institutions of state authority. Maarja has also represented clients in the Court of Justice of the European Union.

2025 – … Partner at TRINITI Estonia

2020 – 2025 Senior Associate at TRINITI Law Firm

2017– … visiting lecturer, subject “Privacy and Data Protection” at University of Tartu (IT Law master’s studies program)

2017– 2020 Associate at TRINITI law firm

2013 Lawyer at TRINITI law firm

2012 and 2013 Internship at TRINITI law firm

2012 Intern at the Office of the Chancellor of Justice in Estonia

2011 Intern at Tartu County Court

2020– 2024 Member of the Media Union’s Press Council, which is a voluntary body of media self-regulation to handle complaints from the public about material in the media.

2017– Member of the Estonian Bar Association.

2017– 2018 Estonian National Youth Council (member of the supervisory board).

Since 2017 – Visiting lecturer at University of Tartu, IT Law master’s studies program, lecturing subject “Privacy and Data Protection”.

Since 2010 – Member of the Estonian Debating Society.

- Advising clients in the media, insurance, industry, and technology sectors on compliance with data protection requirements, including drafting data processing conditions, conducting impact assessments, conducting legal analyses, and providing day-to-day advice in the field of data protection.

- Providing representation for journalist Toivo Tänavsuu in a precedent-setting dispute in a copyright and social media lawsuit against a hobby artist who used a photo of a child who was suffering from cancer to create a painting.

- Providing representation for a client in the European Union’s first ICO litigation.

- Providing representation for journalist Katrin Lust in a lawsuit which concerned media and copyright issues in connection with the episode which included a chiropractor by the name of Oolo in ‘Kuuuurija’.

- Providing representation for a client in the Court of Justice of the European Union during a mediator’s liability case. The dispute concerned the question of whether and when, under European Union law, an organisation which is representing trademark proprietors is entitled to bring an action before a court in order to protect the rights of trademark proprietors and matters which were related to the response by the mediator.

- Providing representation for Äripäev AS in a precedent-setting dispute with Eerik-Niiles Kross

- Representing a client in an internet jurisdiction dispute before the Court of Justice of the European Union.

- Preparing an amicus curiae opinion for the European Court of Human Rights. The case before the European Court of Human Rights concerned the issue of hyperlinking defamatory statements.

University of Tartu, Faculty of Law

Master of Laws (cum laude)

2013 - 2016

University of Tartu, Faculty of Law

Bachelors

2010 - 2013