Stephanie Sparks to Speak on Executing Litigation Holds from a Data Breach

Privacy and Data Security attorney Stephanie Sparks will speak on a Webinar panel, “Executing Litigation Holds from a Data Breach.”

Data breach headlines are now unavoidable, underscoring the need for organizations to be prepared for a breach of any type — whether perpetrated by insider, hostile nation-state, or other criminals. Do you know your duties to preserve? This one-hour seminar, part of the “E-Discovery 201” series, includes these topics:

• Notifications requirements and the variations by state laws
• Rules regarding preserving responsive ESI
• E-Discovery best practices for handling a breach

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Stephanie O. Sparks is a shareholder of, and chairs the firm’s Privacy & Data Security and Intellectual Property teams. She counsels companies on privacy laws and helps them create and implement administrative, technical and physical safeguards for data security.

Stephanie also conducts onsite data security and compliance assessments; provides privacy and data security awareness training; prepares record management policies, record retention/destruction schedules, and data breach incident response plans; negotiates business associate agreements mandated by HIPAA, and other agreements involving privacy and data protection, hosting, migration and transfer.

Stephanie manages an online service provider’s responses to government requests for information, including search warrants, pen register trap & trace orders, and Title III electronic surveillance orders. She helps firm clients prepare for, and she manages all aspects of, the inevitable data breach, whether resulting from the ubiquitous stolen laptop, phishing scams, the hacking of servers, or otherwise.