Roma Patel

Roma Patel
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Professional Biography

Roma Patel focuses her practice on a broad range of data privacy and cybersecurity matters. She handles comprehensive responses to cybersecurity incidents, including business email compromises, network intrusions, inadvertent disclosures and ransomware attacks. In response to privacy and cybersecurity incidents, Roma guides clients through initial response, forensic investigation, and regulatory obligations in a manner that balances legal risks and business or organizational needs.

Prior to joining our firm, Roma worked at an Am Law 100 firm where she assisted clients in the healthcare industry on a broad range of privacy and cybersecurity matters. In addition to incident response, Roma worked with clients on HIPAA and privacy issues, including responding to patient complaints, advising on ACA Section 1557 nondiscrimination compliance, counseling on health information access matters, and guiding healthcare providers through compliance related to use of website tracking/advertising technologies.

Roma’s prior legal experience also includes working as an associate for a nationally recognized, Boston-based Am Law 100 firm. Her work there ranged from assisting in a pharmaceutical patent trial, including second-chairing a deposition and drafting expert reports, to coordinating responses to a state attorney general’s privacy investigation into a large technology company. At this firm, Roma prepared NORA and PARR responses in response to Consumer Finance Protection Bureau investigations and counseled clients on various privacy matters, including on BIPA, TCPA, and VPPA compliance.

While in law school, Roma was a Legal Scholar at the Google Legal Summer Institute, where she gained insight across legal functions at Google, including privacy, intellectual property, and policy. She also served as a law clerk for AARP, assisting with various consumer protection matters.

Roma currently serves on the Board of the South Asian Bar Association of Philadelphia as the Gala Co-Chair. She also serves on the Judiciary Committee of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Pennsylvania.

In addition to English, Roma is fluent in Gujarati.

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