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Travis co-chairs Cooley’s global cyber/data/privacy practice. He is a top authority on cybersecurity, data privacy, telecommunications, and the regulation of emerging and innovative technologies. Drawing on his broad experience in federal and state government, he helps clients manage regulatory and litigation risk, as well as strategically respond to data breaches, cyberattacks, nation-state attacks, dissemination of stolen data, misinformation campaigns and government enforcement efforts, including those by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and state attorneys general. Travis has served on the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) since his 2019 presidential nomination and unanimous Senate confirmation as a board member on the independent agency tasked with ensuring that the government’s efforts to protect the US from terrorism appropriately safeguard privacy and civil liberties.
In addition to advising boards of directors and senior corporate officers on crisis management, internal investigations, information governance and national security matters, Travis counsels clients on antitrust investigations, telecommunications strategies and regulatory enforcement responses. The respect and skills Travis has earned during his career have translated into appointments across the political spectrum, including his selection by the US Department of Commerce and the European Commission to serve as an arbitrator for the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework.
With his broad understanding of technology, media and telecommunications, as well as his senior government experience at the national and state levels, Travis is uniquely positioned to advise and represent clients in litigation on a range of data privacy, cybersecurity and information management issues, including data breaches, class actions and government enforcement actions. Travis has assisted clients with federal and state telecommunications needs, including FCC proceedings and regulations and merger reviews. He has worked with Congress and other regulatory agencies on behalf of clients and advocated for emerging and established technology companies before regulatory bodies. He also has worked closely with senior officials at other federal, state and international agencies, including the FTC, US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Department of Justice (DOJ), all 50 state attorneys general, and data protection authorities (DPAs) across the globe. His deep understanding of the regulatory and legal landscapes helps Travis strategically respond to and favorably resolve government inquiries and legal disputes.
Until January 2025, Travis served on the PCLOB, a position he had held since 2019 after being nominated by then-President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate. Travis was renominated to the board by President Joseph Biden in 2022. As former chief of the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau during the Obama administration, Travis spearheaded hundreds of enforcement actions involving consumer issues, such as false advertising and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), unfair competition, regulatory compliance, and fraud, waste, and abuse of government programs. Travis is the only former chief of the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau in private practice.
Travis previously served as a senior advisor to former California Attorney General Kamala Harris and as special assistant attorney general of California, where he oversaw the state’s complex policy and litigation in areas including technology regulation, high-tech crime, cybersecurity, privacy, intellectual property, antitrust, healthcare, telecommunications and human trafficking. Before this high-profile California role, he served during the Obama administration as an attorney in the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel, which advises the president, attorney general and executive branch agencies on the constitutionality and legality of US government programs and activities.
Travis’s background and leadership roles, as well as his practice at leading law firms, have translated into advising clients – both nationally and globally – on responding to and finding solutions for novel local, state, federal and cross-border issues. He also has represented companies, boards, founders, CEOs, executives and other prominent individuals in a diverse array of complex and bet-the-company civil litigation, government investigations and advisory matters.
