Emerging Laws Affecting Cross-Border Discovery

Whitney McCollum is the Global Data Privacy attorney for AECOM, a Fortune 500 company that designs, builds, finances and operates infrastructure assets for governments, businesses and organizations. With offices in over 150 countries, Whitney is responsible for staying current on the privacy laws that affect AECOM globally and working with AECOM’s security, legal, HR, compliance, and procurement teams worldwide to keep AECOM’s data safe. Whitney also manages employment law matters for AECOM’s EMIA region.

Before AECOM, Whitney was Corporate Counsel at Renesas Electronics America where she advised the Renesas business teams on legal issues involving privacy, licensing, and commercial transactions and chaired the Intellectual Property Committee and Global Open Source Software subcommittee.

Before going in-house, Whitney was an intellectual property litigator at Morrison Foerster and O’Melveny & Myers. Whitney is CIPP/US certified and a member of the U.S. Patent Bar.

Darin Sands is a litigator whose practice focuses on data security, privacy, antitrust and the resolution of other complex commercial disputes. Darin represents clients in a wide range of matters, including data breach and privacy litigation, international antitrust investigations and litigation, class actions, claims involving breach of contract and fiduciary duties, and counseling related to using technology to more efficiently achieve legal objectives. Darin is licensed to practice in Oregon, Washington and California, and works with clients in Lane Powell’s Portland and Seattle offices.

He currently represents numerous companies in ongoing data breach litigation and data breach response preparation efforts. He also frequently counsels clients on privacy-related legal challenges.

Darin is the Co-chair of the Firm’s Privacy and Data Security Practice Group and Co-chair of the Electronic Discovery, Technology and Strategy Practice Group.

He is also a member of the Firm’s Business Crisis Management and Emergency Remedies Practice Group and has significant experience representing clients at the TRO and preliminary injunction stage of litigation.

He is a skilled project manager with a Yellow Belt certification in Legal Lean Sigma? and Project Management.

In 2006 and 2007, Darin served as a Judicial Clerk to the Honorable Robert S. Lasnik of the Western District of Washington.