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Trends and Developments Contributed by: Christina Morgan, Jason Blackstone and Matthew Yarbrough Buchalter LLP Buchalter LLP is a full-service law firm with over 560 attorneys across 35 practice areas. The Privacy and Data Security team helps clients navigate local, state, federal, and international privacy and data security laws, including multi-state and multi-national com - pliance and industry-specific self-regulatory frame - works. The firm advises across industries on website practices, data collection and storage, privacy pro - gramme development, breach notification obliga - tions, and responses to investigations, penalties, and related litigation. Interdisciplinary by design, Buchal -
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ter draws lawyers from litigation, healthcare, intellec - tual property, finance, corporate, and employment to integrate privacy compliance and cybersecurity into business operations and keep decisions practical and defensible. Buchalter is adept at dealing directly with key policy and technical principles to provide policies, procedures, and technical implementations that can be easily operationalised while remaining flexible to endure in the face of ever-changing regula - tions and threat actors.
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Christina Morgan is a Certified Information Privacy Professional and co-chair of the Privacy and Data Security practice group at Buchalter LLP. She is well versed in consumer privacy laws, including the California
preparing clients for argument before fact finders through an emphasis on the singular story approach. He has dealt extensively with artificial intelligence for over a decade and successfully counselled clients on data life cycle, data governance, cybersecurity, data asset management, and created evergreen, reactive privacy and data management systems.
Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA). Ms Morgan routinely conducts privacy reviews and counsels clients on privacy compliance and consent management. She has prepared myriad policies and terms for client websites, including privacy policies, notices of collection, and terms of service. Ms Morgan also supports clients who are sharing personal information with vendors and other third parties by negotiating data processing agreements.
Matthew Yarbrough is an internationally recognised trial lawyer, former federal prosecutor, co-creator of the Texas AG’s Internet Bureau, and the FBI’s Texas Computer Forensics Laboratory. He has over 30
years of experience in IP, cybersecurity and data privacy. He has conducted more than 2,000 internal corporate investigations involving governance, compliance, securities fraud, cybersecurity, and trade secret theft. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Matthew prosecuted high-profile cybersecurity cases: U.S. v. Gl0balHell; and U.S. v. PhoneMasters. He led the DOJ’s first-of-its-kind trial task force, Criminal Intellectual Property and Computer Crimes. He has also authored numerous articles, including “Suing the Insecure in Cyberspace.”
Jason Blackstone is an experienced intellectual property litigator who has focused on bringing an interdisciplinary, asset-based view of cybersecurity and data privacy practice. He has guided clients in
both reactive scenarios dealing with breaches and unconventional threats and on the proactive side,
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