Brownstein Adds Privacy and Cybersecurity Attorney Jack Hobaugh

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck welcomes Jack Hobaugh to its Corporate & Business Department as a shareholder in the firm’s Denver office. Hobaugh will focus on technology transactions, cybersecurity law and privacy law. 

“Jack approaches issues for clients with a combined technical, policy and legal perspective. His work as inhouse senior privacy and security counsel and data protection officer make him a respected leader in the area of cybersecurity and privacy,” said Jay Spader, chair of Brownstein’s Corporate & Business Department.

Hobaugh combines his global software, database and network engineering experience with his legal practice. A certified information privacy professional, he uses his inhouse experience serving as a data protection officer and an incident response team member to provide legal and cybersecurity guidance to his clients. His work includes privacy trainings, regulatory inquiries and negotiating privacy and security agreements, such as data privacy agreements and data protection impact assessments. He also provides technical license review and analysis. 

An adjunct professor and author of three books on cybersecurity law, Hobaugh is sought out counsel for mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions. Being able to combine his corporate and intellectual property leadership experience allows him to provide efficient guidance for negotiating and closing deals. Hobaugh most recently served as senior corporate counsel – privacy and security, data protection officer in the education technology field covering all areas of privacy and cybersecurity law and compliance. Prior to his legal career, Hobaugh was a software engineer with a focus on international IT consulting and telecom. In addition to litigating and prosecuting patents, he also served as a patent examiner for the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Hobaugh received his graduate degree in computer science from John Hopkins University, his law degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and LL.M. degrees from Georgetown University Law Center and The George Washington University Law School.