Julia B. Jacobson is a Partner in Squire Patton Boggs' Data Privacy, Cybersecurity & Digital Assets Practice. For over 20 years, a world-class roster of national and multinational clients has turned to Julia for practical and tactical advice and counsel on privacy and cybersecurity compliance strategies, data breach response, technology transactions and marketing initiatives.
A significant portion of Julia’s practice is devoted to advising clients on an array of privacy, cybersecurity, data breach and data governance matters. She assists clients with the design and development of privacy-sensitive policies for the collection and use of personal data. Julia regularly advises businesses on the privacy and cybersecurity aspects of ESG programs, ethical data use, machine learning and artificial intelligence, vendor contracting and management and business sales, combinations and acquisitions. She has helped her clients design, develop and implement compliance programs to meet the challenges of the evolving privacy and cybersecurity law landscape, including the California Consumer Privacy Act and other US state privacy and cybersecurity laws, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, the UK Data Protection Act 2018, cross-border personal data transfers and New York Department of Financial Services Cybersecurity Regulations, as well as to align with industry standards, including the NIST cybersecurity and privacy frameworks and ESG standards and frameworks. Julia also serves as the data breach coach for several national and international clients.