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About
Provided by Travis LeBlanc
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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.
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, and his unanimous US Senate confirmation to the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
Career
Travis currently serves on the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, a position he has held since 2019 after being nominated by then-President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate. Travis was renominated to the board by President Joe 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 previously served as a senior adviser to former California Attorney General (now Vice President) 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. Prior to 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.