Casey Waughn helps clients navigate and comply with complex regulatory regimes, particularly in the data privacy, cybersecurity, and technology spaces. She leverages her experience litigating complex disputes to counsel founders, startups, and established organizations with responding to risk and developing compliance strategies that fit their needs.

Privacy Compliance and Risk Management

Casey counsels clients to develop, implement, and maintain practical privacy and data protection strategies to fit their organization’s needs and risk profile. Her litigation-informed mindset helps clients anticipate how their policies, agreements, and decisions may be interpreted in adversarial settings. She is knowledgeable in a variety of global data privacy regulations and strategies, including the EU and U.K.’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California’s privacy regime (the CCPA/CPRA), FERPA, COPPA, state data breach notification statutes, cross-border data transfers, vendor management, state and federal consumer protection law, the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), CAN-SPAM, laws pertaining to the use of artificial intelligence (AI), and other regulations relating to information use and disclosure. Casey uses this knowledge when drafting privacy policies and procedures, assisting clients through data breaches or incidents, guiding clients through regulatory inquiries, and reviewing contracts, among other things. Casey’s advice is often sought at organizations’ most critical junctures, including M&A transactions, new product launches, software updates, vendor changes, and in the wake of regulatory uncertainty, where clients value her clear, outcome-oriented guidance.

Casey also frequently speaks on and publishes articles about data privacy topics. She is an active member of the privacy bar and recently served a four-year term as the co-chair of the St. Louis chapter of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Complex Technology Litigation

Casey has particular experience representing clients in technology-related disputes. Her technology litigation experience ranges from defending clients in data-breach class actions, to representing businesses that initiate lawsuits to protect their trade secrets, to regulatory matters, to commercial disputes involving technology contracts or technology platforms where millions of dollars are at stake. Casey also represents clients in general business disputes, including disputes among current and former business partners.

An experienced trial attorney, Casey regularly represents clients in state and federal courts throughout the country and has served as lead or secondary counsel on nearly a dozen cases that have been tried to verdict.

Casey’s experience is not limited to disputes among private parties, as she often advises clients in responding to regulatory inquiries and requests from various regulators, including requests from state attorneys general, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Department of Justice.