Dan is a recognized cybersecurity, privacy, and information management lawyer, with significant experience working with education and public sector organizations in Canada. Dan helps organizations:
- respond effectively to security and cyber incidents
- defend security and privacy complaints, claims and grievances
- handle complex freedom of information matters and appeals
- negotiate optimal agreements with data hosts and other technology vendors
- address security and other operational issues while minimizing privacy risks
Dan's practice has covered a wide breadth of information related matters since 2003. He has strong advisory and commercial expertise, and has also represented clients in significant privacy, security and freedom of information litigation, including at the Ontario Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Canada. This gives Dan a full perspective on complicated matters along with a practical focus. He is a leading Canadian “breach coach," having handled his first major incident in 2006.
Dan has been recognized by Best Lawyers, Chambers Canada, Who's Who Legal and Lexpert, and has authored and contributed to privacy and e-discovery texts.
Experience
- Defended two grievances on behalf of universities whose unions challenged the outsourcing of email systems to the cloud.
- Represented a legal publisher in two “right to be forgotten” cases brought by individuals challenging the publisher’s right to publish case law on privacy grounds.
- Helped an educational institution obtain an Anton Piller order and recover data stolen by student hackers.
- Helped a municipality obtain injunctive relief to address the theft and misuse of confidential information by a public official and resolve related privacy breach claims.
- Defended two grievances on behalf of universities whose unions challenged the outsourcing of email systems to the cloud.
- Represented a legal publisher in two “right to be forgotten” cases brought by individuals challenging the publisher’s right to publish case law on privacy grounds.
- Helped an educational institution obtain an Anton Piller order and recover data stolen by student hackers.
- Helped a municipality obtain injunctive relief to address the theft and misuse of confidential information by a public official and resolve related privacy breach claims.
