Kara K. Trowell

Kara K. Trowell focuses her practice on technology, privacy, and security matters, with a depth of knowledge in the fields of data privacy and cybersecurity. She counsels a variety of clients, including technology companies, communications companies, advertisers and publishers, educational institutions and affiliates, and political campaigns, on their data privacy and information governance obligations under state, federal, and foreign laws and regulations. In addition, Kara assists clients by drafting and negotiating contracts for her technology clients, including end-user license agreements, inbound and outbound licensing agreements, and distributor/reseller agreements.

Kara regularly teams with her clients' legal, technology, and information security professionals to ensure their compliance with applicable privacy laws and regulations at every step of the product or service lifecycle, from design and development to vendor contracts and marketing and advertising activities. She works with clients at all stages of development in a data privacy program, and has experience authoring privacy policies, drafting and negotiating data protection agreements, establishing data subject response protocols, devising incident response plans, and helping clients to understand how the latest developments in the data privacy and cybersecurity field may impact their entity.

Kara also has substantial experience in handling complex commercial litigation and internal corporate investigations, which allows her to identify and address potential gaps in clients' data privacy frameworks before a threat materializes.