Lawyers Christopher Cwalina and Steven Roosa have defected from Reed Smith to establish and co-chair a new data privacy and security team at Holland & Knight. Both men join as firm partners — Roosa in New York, and Cwalina in Washington, D.C. Their unit is within the firm’s public policy and regulation practice group, where they join partners Richard Gold, of Washington, D.C.,  Ieuan Mahony, of Boston, and Shannon Salimone, of Tallahassee, Fla.

Cwalina, who received his J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law, defends companies in litigation and involved with investigations initiated by governmental agencies, such as state attorneys general, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. He also has served as vice president and assistant general counsel for ChoicePoint Inc. and Intersections Inc. “The biggest challenge for companies right now, on the legal side, is that we have industry-specific or data-specific laws that only govern the collection and use of certain categories of data,” Cwalina told LTN, citing the Childrens’ Online Privacy Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (for financial institutions). “But these statutes don’t necessarily contemplate how companies operate in today’s online and mobile world. So it’s tough for companies to know where the lines are or what they can and can’t do.”

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