A Partner at Mullen Coughlin, Ed Finn assists organizations of all sizes with ensuring compliance with a wide variety of state and federal data privacy and information security rules, statutes, and regulations, as well as with various state consumer and data protection statutes. He has significant experience handling hundreds of data privacy and security incidents, including those impacting organizations in the healthcare and life sciences; manufacturing and distribution; financial services; professional services; government, including the defense industrial base; retail/e-commerce; technology; and education industry sectors.
Ed serves as the Regional Chair of the Litigation practice group for the Eastern United States, leading a team of litigators in their provision of all aspects of single-plaintiff, class action, and B2B data privacy and security-related litigation defense. Ed routinely represents organizations against data breach allegations and other privacy-related claims, including those stemming from alleged website technology tracking issues such as Meta Pixel. Ed also assists clients in B2B disputes related to contractual indemnification and wire fraud.
Additionally, he has extensive experience guiding organizations through both informal and formal regulatory investigations from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (HHS-OCR), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), European data protection authorities, and various state Attorneys Generals.
Ed also assists organizations with the development and implementation of pre-incident Advisory Compliance solutions. He is often called upon to develop Incident Response Plans (IRPs) and other compliance policies, including those related to artificial intelligence (AI), and also conducts Cyber Incident Response Tabletop Exercises and counsels on proper risk assessment procedures.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
- Won dismissal of a data breach class action on behalf of a Florida-based food charity on grounds that Plaintiff’s complaint failed to comply with Rule 8(a)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure by not containing “a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief.”
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS & PRESENTATIONS
- “How to Meet the New CMMC Requirements,” Ultimate Risk Services, Virtual, November 12, 2026
- “How to Meet the New CMMC Requirements,” Ultimate Risk Services, Virtual, August 13, 2026
- “How to Meet the New CMMC Requirements,” Ultimate Risk Services, Virtual, May 14, 2026
- “How to Meet the New CMMC Requirements,” Ultimate Risk Services, Virtual, February 19, 2026
- “Charting the Future of Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Law: Where We Are and Where We Are Heading,” 2025 ISACA Philadelphia Fall Summit, Malvern, PA, November 20, 2025
- “How to Meet the New CMMC Requirements,” Ultimate Risk Services, Virtual, November 6, 2025
- “America’s Cybersecurity and the War in Ukraine,” Tech360, Exton, PA, November 3, 2022
- “Cyber Attacks and Incident Response: Trends and Takeaways,” American Global, Virtual, May 11, 2022
- “Developments in Ransomware and Other Cybersecurity Threats and Issues,” 2021 RCM&D Consortium Services Program, Virtual, September 30, 2021
- “Interactive Business Interruption Scenario,” NetDiligence Cyber Risk Summit 2021, Philadelphia, PA, July 13, 2021
- “Data Privacy Administrative Law Refresher,” Wayne, PA, June 20, 2018
- “Responding to Cyber Attacks – Using Structured Data Sources in Data Breach Investigations,” ABA Criminal Justice Section, New York, NY, August 10, 2017
- “Cybercrime – What You Need To Know,” Cybersecurity Panel, Miami, FL, March 1, 2017
- “Engaging Both Old and New Methods to Resolve Cyber Breach Claims,” 2017 Annual CLM Conference, Dallas, TX, February 23, 2017
- “Bond School: Anatomy of a Cyber Claim,” Virtual, September 16, 2016
- “Professional Liability – Lawyers: Global Perspectives on Data Collection, Transfer, Use and Disclosure,” 2016 Annual CLM Conference, Boston, MA, July 14, 2016
- “Cyber Response Forum – We Have a Breach, Now What?,” Charlotte, NC, June 1, 2016
- “Cyber Response Forum – We Have a Breach, Now What?,” Blue Bell, PA, April 27, 2016