As co-leader of BakerHostetler’s Privacy Governance and Technology Transactions team, Melinda McLellan provides clients with innovative, business-oriented solutions to evolving data protection compliance challenges. She coordinates a talented group of privacy and information security lawyers, leveraging a multidisciplinary approach to develop proactive and pragmatic legal strategies that contemplate the client’s immediate needs as well as long-term goals.
Melinda is a seasoned privacy and cybersecurity law advisor whose practice focuses on the regulation of emerging technologies, compliance with U.S. state and federal privacy legislation and cross-border data protection matters. As leader of the firm’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) initiative, Melinda works with multinational organizations to identify, evaluate and manage the overlapping and intersecting legal obligations associated with corporate privacy and information security practices. Her broader practice includes advising on a wide variety of data management issues, including the use of biometrics, securing the Internet of Things, blockchain technologies and digital currencies, cybersecurity threats to the financial services and energy sectors, autonomous vehicles, genetic privacy, artificial intelligence, information security incident response and negotiating complex tech transactions.