Elizabeth is a business and technology-specific lawyer with extensive experience involving a variety of regulatory, cybersecurity compliance, and privacy-focused matters. A former Chief Privacy Officer and General Counsel, she brings a unique and informed in-house perspective to her practice. Elizabeth routinely advises her clients on privacy and cyber risks and suggests practical risk mitigation steps that achieve business objectives.

Elizabeth focuses on projects including breach prevention, privacy risk assessments, and management of breach response teams. Elizabeth also focuses on building enterprise-wide privacy and cybersecurity compliance frameworks across industries such as retail, health care, contingent workforce and staffing, education, and state and local governments. She has a breadth of experience creating solutions for privacy issues arising in the employment law context, as she spent the first half of her law career as a management-side employment lawyer.

Leveraging her in-house and Texas state government experiences, Elizabeth works with executive leadership and other stakeholders to provide practical compliance counseling on cybersecurity and privacy requirements, design and conduct tabletop exercises, and create and implement policies, procedures, and employee privacy and security awareness training.

Outside of her law practice, Elizabeth teaches cybersecurity and privacy law topics for the University of Texas School of Information's Master's Program in Information Privacy & Security. She is a thought leader on privacy and cybersecurity matters facing businesses and frequently speaks about and is published on emerging trends in these areas.

Honors & Recognitions

•   Top Latino Lawyers, Latino Leaders magazine, 2019, 2020

•   Outstanding Young Lawyer of San Antonio, 1992