Sheila Sokolowski > Hintze Law > Seattle, United States > Lawyer Profile

Sheila Sokolowski

(872) 310-4062‬ sheila@hintzelaw.com

Position

Partner

Career

Sheila Sokolowski, is a Partner at Hintze Law PLLC and is Lead Co-Chair of the firm’s Health and Biotech Privacy Group. She is ranked by Chambers USA, which described her as “incredibly quick to understand complex, innovative technologies and develop practical, risk-indexed advice that clients understand and use.”

Her clients include Fortune 500 companies, health care data streaming and machine learning platforms, and institutions of higher education. Sheila advises clients on data privacy and security risk mitigation and management strategies, including data breach and security incident responses. She collaborates with in-house legal and technical professionals to develop scalable, risk-based data privacy and security legal compliance solutions, encompassing the FTC Act, HIPAA/HITECH, 42 C.F.R. Part 2, FERPA, and GDPR.

Sheila counsels emerging life sciences companies on practical, business-focused legal compliance strategies to address the federal regulation of health care providers and clinical research, including the Stark Law, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, state and federal false claims acts, HIPAA/HITECH, the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (the “Common Rule”). She also counsels investors seeking to evaluate and understand the health care regulatory risks involved in transactions with emerging life sciences companies.

Sheila regularly speaks to national audiences about health care data privacy and security compliance, as well as data privacy and security risk more broadly.

Memberships

• American Health Lawyers Association

• International Association of Privacy Professionals Education Advisory Board Member

Education

• University of Texas, School of Law, JD

• Barnard College, BA