As the firm's Los Angeles and Costa Mesa Digital Assets and Data Management Leader, Jennifer Mitchell leverages more than 15 years of legal, compliance and operational experience, much of it in-house, as she helps clients navigate the complex landscape of global and strategic privacy matters. Having most recently served in executive privacy leadership roles for two global Fortune 100 companies, she is well versed in providing practical business solutions to maintain compliance with U.S., EMEA, LATAM and APAC privacy regulations. Jennifer also has in-depth experience with implementing data-driven initiatives in compliance with GDPR, HIPAA and CCPA, and provides strategic privacy counseling in mergers and acquisitions and divestitures across industries, including medical device and entertainment.
Jennifer has supported employee data programs for companies, including providing strategic privacy counseling to tackle the challenges posed by return-to-work initiatives during the pandemic, both in-office and at production locales. She has also supported global data subject rights requests in the employment context, and provides strategic counseling in preparation for CPRA employment data compliance.
Jennifer recently served as the Vice President of Privacy at Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., where she was responsible for overseeing Sony Pictures' global privacy program across businesses. In addition, Jennifer was the Global Privacy Officer for Abbott Laboratories' Diabetes Care Division and a partner at an international law firm specializing in white-collar criminal defense, government investigations and litigation. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US/EU) and a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM).