Kari Prochaska focuses her practice on data privacy and cybersecurity, corporate due diligence, and complex civil litigation. She has counseled clients regarding incident response, breach notification obligations under state privacy statutes, and data governance. Kari has advised clients on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) contractual compliance and cross border data transfer mechanisms. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Also, she has extensive experience supporting clients in corporate transactional due diligence, including data privacy, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganization, real estate portfolio acquisition and post-closing support in the healthcare and life sciences, intellectual property, manufacturing, technology, finance and media industries.
Kari has significant experience and counseling clients on data privacy issues related to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance, document preservation and collection, early case assessment, technology-assisted review and the use of analytics. She has a wide range of experience in the areas of federal healthcare investigations, patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, antitrust investigations, shareholder derivative suits, internal investigations and audits, product liability defense, and pharmaceutical litigation.
As part of her pro bono practice, Kari has drafted executive clemency petitions, Certificates of Good Conduct and power of attorney documents. She has assisted clients in receiving protection from removal under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Education
University of Iowa College of Law, JD, 1998
University of Iowa, BA, with distinction and honors, 1994
Admissions
Illinois
Courts/Agencies
US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
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