Phyllis Sumner

Practice Areas

Phyllis Sumner is a partner and the firm's Chief Privacy Officer. She leads the Data, Privacy and Security practice. Phyllis regularly counsels corporate boards, senior executives and other clients regarding data breach prevention, emergency response, remediation, compliance, regulatory enforcement, internal corporate investigations and other critical privacy and data security concerns.

As a crisis manager, Ms. Sumner works closely with clients' legal, compliance and business teams to strategize, manage and defend when significant privacy and data security issues arise. She assists her clients with developing mature incident response plans and leads them through security incidents, including investigations, containment, remediation, communications, and contractual and legal obligations. She represents clients defending against class actions resulting from alleged consumer protection and privacy violations, and data security incidents.