BOSTON – Mintz is pleased to announce that Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly has recognized Cynthia Larose on its 2022 list of "Go To Cybersecurity/Data Privacy" lawyers. The editors selected attorneys who are "top lawyers across the Commonwealth," and who are leaders in their practice fields with long records of success.

Based in the Boston office, Ms. Larose is the Founding Chair of Mintz’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice, where she is a trusted adviser to companies across industry sectors when they turn to addressing and managing the information risk posed by rapidly-changing privacy laws and data breach incidents.

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly noted that Ms. Larose, a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) and a Certified Information Privacy Professional-Europe (CIPP-E), has “quickly risen to the position of a highly regarded authority in the modern field.” It also referenced her skilled management of a multi-million record data breach for a publicly traded worldwide leading provider of software solutions and a significant data-mapping project across 15 major cosmetics and haircare brands.

Ms. Larose has extensive experience in privacy, data security, and information management matters, including state, federal, and international laws and regulations on the use and transfer of information, behavioral advertising, data security breach compliance and incident response, data breach incident response planning, as well as data transfers in the context of mergers and acquisitions and technology transactions.

She also conducts privacy audits and risk assessments to determine data and transaction flow and to assess privacy practices, and assists with drafting and implementation of privacy policies and information security policies and procedures and monitoring of privacy “best practices” across all levels of the enterprise.

Under Ms. Larose’s leadership, Mintz’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice has been praised by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business as possessing “a breadth of knowledge on international privacy laws that is astonishing…” In addition, she has been recognized as a Client Service All-Star by BTI Consulting, a Best Lawyer in America for Privacy & Data Security Law, as well as, a top Cybersecurity author by JD Supra since 2018. 

View the full Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly supplement here.

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