SAN FRANCISCO — Cybersecurity and data privacy partner Françoise Gilbert joined Greenberg Traurig’s Silicon Valley office on Friday. She was previously founder and managing director of the IT Law Group in Palo Alto.
A French native, Gilbert has been working in cybersecurity since “way, way, way before it was fashionable,” she said. She authored a two-volume treatise on privacy and security law in 2009 and serves as co-chair of the Practising Law Institute’s Annual Privacy and Security Law conference.
“I personally have done this type of work since the early 1990s,” Gilbert said. “As time has gone by and there have been more laws, people have been waking up slowly to the need to think about privacy and security.”
Gilbert said the cybersecurity boom has no end in sight. The rise of the so-called “Internet of Things”—as more and more of our household objects become mines of personal data—would just create a new frontier.
Gilbert said her longtime friend Ian Ballon, an intellectual property litigation shareholder at Greenberg, recruited her to join the firm. Gilbert’s niche law practice is disbanding, as its two other attorneys go their own ways.
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