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Before joining the firm, Richard worked at Abbott Laboratories as Division Counsel, advising leadership and other stakeholders on a variety of topics ranging from mergers and acquisitions privacy and cybersecurity due diligence and data licensing to privacy, cybersecurity and data risk mitigation strategies related to technology and data products. Richard also served in a similar role within financial services at State Farm, and prior to that as an associate in an AmLaw 100 firm specializing in commercial litigation and products liability.

During that time, Richard also supported compliance teams as they operationalized legal and regulatory requirements for engineering, commercial, sales, marketing and business development teams throughout product lifecycles. Additionally, he helped government relations teams as they developed strategies to effectively respond to a rapidly changing global policy landscape, as well as information security teams as they developed and implemented programs and incident response strategies.

Richard draws upon a deep well of creativity and experience working with a variety of risk appetites and teams and embraces a wide variety of approaches to offer clients solutions for their privacy, cybersecurity and data concerns.

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J.D., Rutgers University School of Law, 2007

B.B.A., Management Information Systems, Howard University, 2004

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Digital Risk Advisory and Cybersecurity

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<li>Provided counseling to business stakeholders regarding privacy and data security implications of leveraging and supporting emerging technologies including blockchains, UAVs and autonomous vehicles.</li>
<li>Supported engineering, marketing, sales and other teams in the evaluation, development and implementation of product design, go-to-market and data monetization strategies for products such as wearable sensors, implantable medical devices, financial instruments and digital health applications.</li>
<li>Supported procurement, sales, digital partnership and vendor risk management processes, developing best practices for drafting and negotiating data privacy and security terms and the assessment and mitigation of vendor and partner risk.</li>
<li>Represented medical device, pharmaceutical and personal care manufacturing clients in civil actions in state and federal court, regulatory agency investigations, internal investigations and pre-litigation disputes relative to medical device products liability, product safety, consumer protection, substantiation, labeling/promotion and other matters.</li>
<li>Provided guidance on incident response, analysis and sharing of intelligence and indicators of compromise, penetration testing, ethical hacking and employment of offensive cyber-capabilities.</li>
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Richard A. Hunter

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