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Tara C. Clancy

Tara Clancy is a partner in the firm’s Boston office, where she is a member of the cyber law and cybersecurity practice group. She concentrates her practice in complex technology litigation and provides clients with privacy compliance and cybersecurity preparedness counseling. She provides counseling on best practices in data management and developing privacy and security policies and procedures to meet changing regulatory requirements and assists clients in handling data breach responses and investigations. She has served as the lead counsel for numerous technology companies, including those in the fields of networking hardware and software, security and control systems, chemical compositions, nutritional supplements, heat transfer equipment, medical devices, ion implantation systems, and packaging. She is a partner in the intellectual property litigation practice where she shares global responsibility for the firm’s IP litigation resources and strategy.

Prior to her legal career, Tara worked for the Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Company first as an engineer designing capital projects in the papermaking division and then as a business manager responsible for managing the people, pay, production, and profits in the industrial chemicals division. She has design and on the ground experience in mechanical and chemical manufacturing processes and information management systems.

As an experienced counsel to technology companies with the background of working in a multinational corporation, Tara knows how to leverage litigation, privacy, and security issues to meet business goals.

  • Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US), International Association of Privacy Professionals
  • Certified Cybersecurity: Managing Risk in the Information Age, Harvard University (VPAL)
  • Top Women of the Law Honoree, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
  • Adjunct Professor of Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts. Teaches a class on international intellectual property law and policy focusing on managing global patent strategies. (2008 -- Present).
  • Chair Associate Development Committee, Boston Office of K&L Gates
  • Association of Corporate Counsel, Southern California Chapter: Panelist, The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA): Key Impact Areas (2021)
  • Speaker, “New England Innovates: On the Front Lines of Cybersecurity,” New England Council, October 2019
  • Speaker, “Cybersecurity: Confronting Threats & Safeguarding Energy and the Environment,” Environmental Law Institute, September 2019
  • Speaker, “CFPB Updates Regulation P Instituting Certain Exceptions From Annual Notice Requirements,” January 2019
  • Speaker, “Enforcing University and Institution Patent Rights in Today’s Challenging Environment,” June 2016
  • Speaker, “Hot Topics in Patents and IP for Technology Companies,” June 2010
  • “Here We Go Again - Proposed reforms to the patent system promise lawyers more reasons to litigate (with Thomas F. Holt, Jr.),” Legal Times, July 11, 2005
  • Court Considers Copyright Extension, Mass High Tech, October 2003
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  • Court Considers Copyright Extension, Mass High Tech, October 2003
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