Katherine Kwong advises clients on how to leverage legal frameworks for privacy and cybersecurity to solve problems and create opportunities. With a background in life sciences and technology, she understands the underlying issues and can explain how they interact with legal considerations.

Katherine counsels clients on privacy and cybersecurity issues at every stage, from policy development to incident response, government investigations, and enforcement actions. She builds on her experience with multiple regulatory frameworks for health care, research, and data protection to answer novel questions at the evolving edge of health, science, law, and technology.

Katherine helps clients create policies and processes that comply with regulatory requirements and manage risk exposure without hindering innovation. She regularly advises clients on security incidents, breaches, investigations, and government inquiries. Katherine resolves the immediate issues they are confronted with while addressing underlying needs with long-term solutions.

In addition to her regulatory counseling, Katherine works with cross-disciplinary teams to provide subject matter knowledge for privacy- and security-related litigation and commercial transactions. Her pro bono work includes cases advocating for health policy groups and advising nonprofit clients on data sharing and compliance.

While in law school, Katherine was active as a student attorney in the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Cyberlaw Clinic. She was a member of the executive board of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, including serving as head of the article selection process.

Katherine has a Master of Public Health in public health genetics from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Science in biology from the University of Minnesota. She clerked for Justice Natalie E. Hudson of the Minnesota Supreme Court.