Lisa Sotto Receives ‘Distinguished Leader’ Award from New York Law Journal
August 12, 2022
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is proud to announce that partner Lisa Sotto has been selected as a 2022 ‘Distinguished Leader’ by the New York Law Journal. Sotto and the 14 other honorees will be recognized at the publication’s annual legal awards event highlighting professional excellence in legal work across New York.
The Distinguished Leader category recognizes attorneys in leadership roles who achieved impressive results in the last year while demonstrating clear leadership skills. Honorees were selected through a combination of factors, including the amount or significance of the issue at stake in the work described, the impact or innovative nature of the work, diversity, practice area, and pro bono work.
A longtime leader in global privacy and cybersecurity law, Sotto has dedicated her career to promoting sound global data privacy and security practices. She chairs the firm’s privacy and cybersecurity practice and is the managing partner of the firm’s New York office. In addition to heading the firm’s privacy and cybersecurity team, in 2001, Sotto co-founded the Centre for Information Policy Leadership, a think tank within the firm that collaborates with industry leaders, policymakers and regulators to develop global solutions and best practices for data privacy and responsible data use.
Sotto is so well respected in matters of cybersecurity and privacy that governments and lawmakers around the world seek her counsel in regulating the space. Clients have praised her as “the queen of breach,” “the high priestess of privacy’” and “by far the country’s gold standard for privacy and cybersecurity matters.”