backNEW YORK, December 15, 2016 — Law360 has profiled King & Spalding partner Phyllis Sumner as a 2016 Privacy MVP. She earned the recognition for “guiding major retail names through class actions over high-profile data breaches and winning summary judgment to protect credit reporting agency practices.” Click here to read the full profile.
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Phyllis Sumner is a Partner in King & Spalding's Business Litigation Practice Group in Atlanta. She leads the Firm’s Data, Privacy & Security practice which spans multiple practice groups and offices. She regularly counsels corporate boards, senior executives and other clients on data breach prevention, emergency response, remediation, compliance, regulatory enforcement, internal corporate investigations and other data security issues of critical concern to leading companies worldwide.