Authors

Scot is Senior Counsel in Taft’s Dayton office, and co-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 a seasoned trial lawyer who concentrates his practice on complex commercial litigation, environmental law, and white collar criminal defense. He holds the CIPP/G, CIPP/US, CPCU designations, is a member of the Sedona Conference Working Groups on Data Security and Privacy Liability, and Electronic Document Retention and Production, and serves as a Steering Committee Member to DRI’s Government Enforcement and Corporate Compliance Committee.

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.

Neal focuses his practice in the areas of business transactions, corporate compliance and securities law compliance, and healthcare/life sciences law. He advises clients across a wide range of industries with respect to the development and implementation of corporate compliance programs, including compliance strategy, codes of conduct, risk assessments, training and reporting.

Brian focuses his practice on technology law, specifically privacy and data security. He has experience in all aspects of the burgeoning privacy law field, including advising on international data transfer regulations. Brian was instrumental in the development of Taft’s Data Breach Recovery Plan.

Barbara Duncombe is a partner with Taft’s Government Contracts practice area, representing clients regionally and nationally. For over 25 years, Barbara has worked with clients to address questions or problems with public contract formation, performance, administration, payment and dispute resolution. She has represented prime contractors, subcontractors and public buyers. Her experience focuses on analysis of contract problems and their resolution through discussion, claims and other dispute forums/processes, including Alternative Dispute Resolution as well as litigation before the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Boards of Contract Appeals and federal and state courts.

Cara focuses her practice on representing private equity sponsors in connection with the acquisition and divestiture of their portfolio companies.  Since graduating from law school, Cara has worked extensively in the middle market private equity space representing sponsors in a variety of M&A transactions and representing portfolio companies in connection with their legal needs.

Jocelyn practices in the area of corporate securities and capital markets. She also earned a CIPP/US certification and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional within the United States.