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Privacy & Data Security: Litigation

USA - Nationwide

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Provided by Melissa Siebert

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Melissa is the chair of Cozen O'Connor's Emerging Data Privacy Trends practice. She and her team represent clients nationwide in privacy and data-related class actions, “mass” and individual arbitrations, and individual litigation in federal and state courts, including cases involving Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA), the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), and claims involving pixels, cookies, and website analytics, as well as the recent surge in “trap and trace” litigation. The team is at the forefront of defending litigation based on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and currently are defending several AI-based class actions. Melissa and her team also provide significant privacy-related compliance counseling and regulatory advice.

Melissa's experience handling BIPA cases has made her one of the leading lawyers in the rapidly developing area of biometric privacy litigation. She has argued and won some of the most significant BIPA appeals to date, garnering defense victories before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. These landmark wins are recognized as laying the groundwork for one of the few clear paths to victory for BIPA defendants.

Education

Northwestern University School of Law

JD

1992

Northwestern University - Kellogg Graduate School of Management

MBA

2000

Bucknell University

BA

1989

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Privacy & Data Security: Litigation - USA - Nationwide

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Band 3
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Chair of Cozen O'Connor's emerging data privacy trends practice, Melissa Siebert has a distinguished practice that involves representing clients in data-related class actions. She regularly handles cases related to the GIPA, CIPA and VPPA.

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