Rachel Hudson > Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP > San Francisco, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Rachel Hudson

Work Department
Intellectual Property
Position
Rachel Tarko Hudson is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the firm’s San Francisco office and the leader of the Retail, Fashion, and Beauty Team.
Rachel specializes in advising retail, fashion and beauty companies, food and beverage companies, and other consumer product companies and brands. Her clients also include software and technology providers and wholesale and material suppliers.
Rachel counsels her clients on all things privacy and advertising. She brings her deep subject matter and industry expertise and pragmatic approach to bear on projects ranging from review, clearance, and structuring advertising claims, programs, and campaigns to complying with the complex and ever-changing web of United States and international privacy laws. Drafting and negotiating commercial and IP agreements rounds out her practice.
Education
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2010, Executive Editor, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2004, cum laude
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
The privacy and cybersecurity practice group at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is a go-to for high-profile brands and retailers, advising on the development of compliance policies along with preparation for and response to data security incidents. Liisa Thomas, based in Chicago, co-heads the practice and brings global experience to international data concerns and digital advertising matters; co-head Craig Cardon works out of Century City and has particular intellectual property expertise. In California, Del Mar-based Wynter Deagle designs and implements privacy and cybersecurity compliance programs, while Moorari Shah in Los Angeles advises on federal consumer protection laws and regulations and Rachel Hudson in San Francisco, leads the firm’s retail, fashion and beauty team with notable reference to the collection and use of data in these industries. For disputes based work, privacy litigation specialist Kari Rollins is noted in New York while Century City’s Jay Ramsey heads the firm’s consumer class action defense team.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Government > Government contracts
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Real estate > Real estate finance