In September, Mullen Coughlin welcomed three (3) new Associates to the Firm: Celia Uwaekwe to the Incident Response practice and Jacob Schultz and Travis Randle to the Litigation practice.
Celia, based in Texas, is a former Law Clerk with the Firm and re-joins the Firm now licensed to practice in Texas. She will continue to build on her Law Clerk experience, assisting organizations respond to and investigate data privacy and security incidents. With particular experience counseling organizations in the financial services industry, as well as those regulated by the SEC, Celia is well-versed in the relevant laws and regulations that pertain to them in the context of data protection, privacy and information security. In addition to her J.D. from Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law, she also holds a Master of Laws in Cyber Law and Data Privacy from Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law and a BBA cum laude in Economics from Kennesaw State University.
Jacob joins the Litigation practice and is based in Devon. A former litigator at an AmLaw200 law firm, he has over five (5) years of experiencing defending organizations in security and privacy litigation, including single-plaintiff, class action and B2B. In addition to being well-versed in common defenses, he has vast experience in successfully identifying and arguing novel legal theories related to data privacy and security incidents and related litigation. Jacob received his J.D. from Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law and a B.A. in East Asian Languages and Civilization from the University of Chicago. Jacob is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He is business-level fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and French, and conversational in German and Italian.
Travis also joins the Litigation practice and is based in Maryland. With over five (5) years of litigation experience, a majority with AmLaw100 firms, Travis is well-versed in defending organizations from numerous highly-regulated and complex industry sectors such as healthcare and life sciences, financial services, education, and government. At Mullen Coughlin, he will build upon his previous regulatory and compliance experience by defending organizations in single-plaintiff, class action and B2B privacy and security disputes in U.S. state and federal courts nationwide. Travis is licensed to practice in Washington, DC and Virginia. He holds a J.D. from Howard University School of Law, a Master of Public Policy from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and a B.A. cum laude from Morehouse College.