Paul Hastings LLP continues to be a trusted adviser to clients navigating complex data breach investigations, enforcement, and class action litigation challenges. The firm is particularly adept at advising on breach-related regulatory investigations brought by the FTC, FCC, SEC, and NYDFS. The practice is jointly led by Aaron Charfoos in Chicago, an expert in data breach class actions involving VPPA, BIPA, and CIPA, and Dallas-based Michelle Reed, with longstanding experience advising companies, boards, and executives on cybersecurity regulation, enforcement, and class action litigation. In Washington DC, Sherrese Smith is equipped to handle AI strategy and governance, regulatory investigations, and enforcement proceedings in the technology, media, and telecommunications industries, while John Gasparini covers transactional matters, compliance, and incident response involving GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA.
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Key clients
- GlaxoSmithKline LLC
- GlaxoSmithKline Patient Access Programs Foundation
- GoTo Group, Inc.
- Dapper Labs, Inc. and National Basketball Association
- Mr. Cooper
- L’Oréal USA Inc.
- City of Dallas
- Waste Management, USA Waste-Management Resources, LLC
- Ubisoft
- Franciscan Alliance, Inc.
- Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, Inc.
Work highlights
Provided services to pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline LLC and the GlaxoSmithKline Patient Access Programs Foundation, both of which were ultimately sued in three class actions filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Defending video game developer Ubisoft, Inc. in a putative class action asserting privacy violations based on Ubisoft’s alleged use of the Meta Pixel tool on its website.
Representing Mr. Cooper, one of the largest home loan servicers in the United States, as lead cybersecurity investigative counsel in an ongoing data breach investigation and remediation efforts related to a security incident attributed to a highly sophisticated advanced persistent threat group that disrupted business and threatened to collapse the ability of millions of customers to pay their monthly mortgages.
Practice head
Aaron Charfoos; Michelle Reed
Other key lawyers
Sherrese Smith; John Gasparini