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Priscilla Combari

Priscilla Combari represents clients on a wide variety of complex commercial transactions, specializing in technology-driven matters that enable clients to innovate and become industry leaders. She has significant experience negotiating outsourcing and other technology-driven agreements, including agreements for software development and implementation, data and software licenses (including for cloud or SaaS deliveries), professional services for both service providers and customers, commercial partnerships and collaborations, reseller and white-label arrangements, and distribution deals. She represents clients in a wide array of industries, including technology, life sciences, public utility, consumer goods, airline, hospitality, automobile and banking.

Priscilla also spent time working in-house at a technology company, where she sharpened her business acumen and deepened her understanding of strategic decision-making. Understanding the concerns and motivations of service providers enables Priscilla to approach negotiations with a balanced mindset, prioritizing achieving solutions that are not only legally robust, but also aligned with operational realities and commercially advantageous for all parties involved.

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As many data breach litigation cases have demonstrated over recent years, the question of a plaintiff’s standing can be quite important to the outcome of each case.  While the Supreme Court has addressed standing issues in several cases with potential applicability in the data breach litigation context, most recently in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins and Clapper v. Amnesty International, the Court has not yet addressed head-on the question of standing requirements for plaintiffs in data breach litigation.  More recently, a cert petition in another data breach standing case (In re Zappos.com), discussed below, has been distributed for conference this Friday, December 7, 2018.  As the Court considers whether to grant cert and address this issue, this post provides an overview of the circuit split on standing in data breach litigation cases and efforts to convince the Court to revisit the issue and provide more precise guidance. 
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