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Provided by Phyllis Sumner
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.
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Phyllis Sumner of King & Spalding is a noted incident response and litigation practitioner. She advises many well-known clients across a range of sectors including leisure and finance. She also has strong experience in privacy counseling on CCPA and Schrems compliance.
Provided by Chambers
"She has deep knowledge of both litigation and cybersecurity and she is excellent to work with."
"She has deep knowledge of both litigation and cybersecurity and she is excellent to work with."
