Linn Freedman practices in data privacy and security law, and complex litigation. She is a member of the Robinson+Cole Business Litigation Group and chairs the firm’s Data Privacy+Security Team.
Ms. Freedman focuses her practice on compliance with all state and federal privacy and security laws and regulations, as well as emergency data breach response and mitigation. She counsels clients on state and federal data privacy and security investigations, litigation and data breaches. Ms. Freedman works with companies and organizations to adopt a risk management approach to precisely frame the purpose and means for the collection, maintenance, and transfer of high-risk data throughout their organization. She advises them to identify high-risk data – both paper and electronic – and to implement measures to protect it and help them develop defensible, and reasonable, approaches to comply with constantly evolving regulatory requirements and the risk of a data breach. She has recently helped clients in the following areas:
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Freedman was a partner at Nixon Peabody, LLP, where she served as leader of the firm’s Privacy & Data Protection Group. She also served as assistant attorney general and deputy chief of the Civil Division of the Attorney General’s Office for the State of Rhode Island.
Ms. Freedman received her J.D. at Loyola University School of Law.