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Ballard Spahr LLP Offices
1909 K STREET, NW
12th FLOOR
WASHINGTON DC 20006-1157
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Kim Phan

Work Department
Business and Transactions
Position
Partner
Career
Kim Phan counsels clients on privacy and data security law in areas including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), and other federal and state privacy and data security statutes and regulations, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Her work in this area encompasses strategic planning and guidance for companies to incorporate privacy and data security considerations throughout product development, marketing, and implementation. She also assists companies with data breach prevention and response, including establishing effective data security programs prior to a breach and the assessment of breach response obligations following a breach.
Admissions:
District of Columbia
Virginia
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
U.S. Supreme Court
Memberships
International Association of Privacy Professionals
American Bar Association, Consumer Financial Services Committee
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association-Asian Pacific American Bar Association, Financial Services Network
Mortgage Bankers Association
Real Estate Service Providers Council
American Financial Services Association, CCPA Working Group
Education
George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School (J.D. 2006)
Notes Editor, Federal Circuit Bar Journal
President, Student Bar Association
11th Circuit Lt. Governor, American Bar Association
University of Pennsylvania (B.A., cum laude, 2001)
Benjamin Franklin Scholar
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Fintech
Ballard Spahr LLP has established an extremely good reputation for banking, payments and financial services regulatory advice. The multi-disciplinary practice is especially good at defending clients against regulatory enforcement actions and investigations. On the transactional side it assists major banks in developing in-house products and relationships with technology companies. New York’s James Kim and Minneapolis-based partner Ronald Vaske jointly lead the fintech and payments team, which includes Washington DC-based privacy and data security partner Kim Phan. Philadelphia’s Peter Jaslow co-leads the blockchain technology and cryptocurrency group, while recently promoted New York partner Judy Mok is active in the payments arena. In Philadelphia, consumer financial services co-head Mark Furletti ‘knows everything that could be known about financial regulations’.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): municipal
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Industry focus > Energy: renewable/alternative power
- Media, technology and telecoms > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Project finance