Michelle Reed

Practice Areas

Michelle Reed is co-head of Akin’s cybersecurity, privacy & data protection practice. She has nearly two decades of experience advising companies, boards, and executives on navigating the evolving risks in privacy and cybersecurity regulation and enforcement, assisting clients in conducting comprehensive privacy and security risk assessments, and developing policies and procedures to mitigate and remediate privacy and cybersecurity threats. Michelle is especially adept at working across business units in finding practical, compliant solutions for clients. She also counsels corporations in data breach investigations and notifications, Securities and Exchange Commission cybersecurity and compliance and regulatory issues, privacy and data protection compliance, and cloud computing advice. In addition to her work in cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, Michelle also represents clients in a variety of complex civil litigation matters, including securities class actions, derivative suits and consumer class actions.

Personal

J.D., Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School, summa cum laude, 2003

B.A., Brigham Young University, with honors, 1999