Recognized by Best Lawyers® in six different practice areas, John Hutchins is a veteran trial and technology lawyer with broad experience encompassing privacy and data security, complex commercial and intellectual property litigation and trial work, and compliance and strategic counseling on technology matters and transactions.
John’s privacy and data security practice involves advising clients on incident response, compliance with state, federal and international privacy and data security laws and guidance. He has led hundreds of clients in responding to data security incidents of all types, including ransomware attacks. He founded the privacy and data security practices at two previous law firms, dating back to 2005.
His 30 years of first chair trial and litigation experience runs the gamut in subject matter, from software and eminent domain to vintage race cars and death penalty habeas corpus, and he has particular experience in litigating matters involving privacy and data security, technology, intellectual property, government procurement, restrictive covenants and breach of fiduciary duty. He has tried numerous cases to jury verdict in state and federal courts, as well as bench trials, arbitrations, administrative and other evidentiary proceedings.
His transactional practice consists of a mix of complex technology transactions, including sourcing deals, hosted services arrangements, cloud computing, technology licensing, systems procurement and project implementation.
John is a frequent speaker and has published widely on privacy, data security and technology law topics. His published work has been cited by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, and he has been quoted by news outlets such as National Public Radio, Fortune, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Forbes, ComputerWorld and Law360. His versatility has been recognized by Best Lawyers® with listings in six different practice areas – Privacy & Data Security, Litigation (Intellectual Property), Technology, Commercial Litigation, Copyright and Information Technology. He has twice been chosen “Lawyer of the Year” in Atlanta by Best Lawyers® – once in 2017 for Information Technology Law and again in 2020 for Technology Law.