Jo-Ellyn Sakowitz Klein

Senior Counsel, Health Industry Practice Group @Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Washington, DC, US

Jo-Ellyn devotes a substantial portion of her practice to assisting clients in the health sector and beyond with issues arising under state and federal privacy, security and data breach notification laws and regulations. She assists clients with matters concerning the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH), Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act and myriad state privacy, security and breach notification laws, as well as adjacent regulatory regimes such as the ASTP/ONC Information Blocking rule. She advises clients on navigating the intersection between federal privacy and data protection laws and state regimes such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA).Jo-Ellyn has examined privacy and data protection issues arising in settings ranging from hospitals to professional sports, to the medical device industry to the technology sector. She assists clients with compliance activities, policy initiatives, data breach preparedness and response efforts, complex agreements and litigation. She regularly assists clients in efforts to comply, in a harmonized manner, with an array of applicable privacy and information security laws and contractual obligations.

Georgetown Law

JD

Duke University

AB, Public Policy Studies