Scot is a partner in Taft’s Dayton office, and chair of the firm’s Privacy and Data Security Practice.  As a former chief privacy officer and leveraging more than ten years of management and compliance experience in Fortune 500 companies, Scot brings a diverse business background to his privacy and data security practice. Scot has represented clients in a variety of sectors, including consumer reporting, construction, healthcare, and manufacturing.

Bill is widely recognized as an accomplished and successful trial attorney. He has substantial experience with matters involving environmental law, mass torts, class actions, defense of enforcement actions by federal and state agencies, and insurance coverage and cost recovery actions. Bill has extensive experience trying and winning cases involving complex, scientific issues in civil and criminal trials in federal and state courts, administrative hearings, and arbitrations throughout the country.

Marcus has established one of the country’s leading practices devoted to drafting and negotiating Enterprise Software related licenses, implementation and SaaS agreements, as well as litigating failed software implementations in courts and before arbitration panels across the country. He is one of the foremost attorneys in the country representing government entities, distributors and manufacturers in recovering damages arising out of failed Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software implementations.

Zach’s practice focuses on privacy and data security. Specifically, Zach assists clients in the areas of privacy compliance, defense litigation, class action defense and guidance in the aftermath of an information security event, including data breach. Zach has experience advising clients with respect to FTC investigations, federal privacy regulations such as HIPAA, FCRA, TCPA, and GLBA, as well as state laws governing personally identifiable information. For his clients, he also provides regulatory analysis, risk management, policy development, training and audits.

Jennifer represents clients throughout Ohio in both federal and state courts in litigation matters related to employment agreements, personnel policies and workers’ compensation. With previous experience working in-house as a human resources manager and attorney in the public sector, Jennifer has direct experience working with clients on labor and employment issues such as recruitment, performance evaluations, disciplinary actions, benefits programs, collective bargaining matters and ensuring employee procedures and policies are in compliance with state and federal laws.

Zenus focuses on addressing a variety of business and finance matters, including data governance regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, COPPA, PCI-DSS, and state data breach notification laws. He also assists clients with internal policy development, implementation, assessment, training, and incident response management.

Jordan is a member of Taft’s Employment and Labor Relations practice group. Her practice focuses on the collection, processing, sharing, transferring and retention of personal data domestically and abroad. She has experience negotiating data processing and sharing agreements for companies in various countries including those located in the European Union, United Kingdom, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East.

Mehmet focuses his practice on information privacy and security, technology, and financial services regulation. Mehmet is known for his expertise in crafting contracts for internet-based services, which encompasses the drafting and negotiation of software and data licenses, Software-as-a-Service agreements, terms of use, privacy policies, and various technology agreements. He provides valuable guidance on large and complex technology agreements, servicing, and payment matters for his clients.