Offering ‘well-reasoned advice in a prompt manner’, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP covers the spectrum of cyber law matters, from program development and incident preparedness to reactive incident response, regulatory investigations and litigation defense. The firm advises clients on the various state and federal privacy legislation as well as on the TCPA. The team is led by the ’exceptional privacy attorney’ Brandon Reilly in San Francisco, who is well-versed in compliance, regulatory and incident response matters. Working in Boston, Amy MacDonald is a noted privacy and data security advisor. Paul Luehr, based in Washington DC, specializes in HIPAA, GDPR and state privacy law advice. In April 2024, Kareem Salem and Jessica Sklute joined from BakerHostetler and McDermott Will & Schulte. Scott Lashway and Christopher Lisy left the firm in May 2024.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘The team works well with other practices and is always able to offer well-reasoned advice in a prompt manner.’

  • ‘Brandon Reilly is an exceptional privacy attorney. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of various privacy laws and can advise on a wide range of data privacy issues in a reasoned, risk-based manner.’

Key clients

  • New York eHealth Collaborative
Practice head

Brandon Reilly

Other key lawyers

Amy MacDonald; Kareem Salem; Jessica Sklute