Rebecca Rakoski Esq.

Rebecca L. Rakoski is the co-founder and managing partner at XPAN Law Partners LLC where she works with unions, pension funds, and health and welfare funds on legal responsibilities related to the U.S. Department of Labor’s cybersecurity guidelines. She advises her clients on a proactive, multijurisdictional approach to identify and address data privacy and cybersecurity compliance gaps and potential liabilities. Rebecca uses her extensive experience to work with her clients to create and tailor a security and privacy governance program to limit their regulatory exposure. She counsels and aggressively defends public and private corporations as well as their boards during data breaches and responds to state/federal regulatory compliance and enforcement actions. As an experienced litigator, Rebecca has handled hundreds of matters in state and federal courts. She skillfully manages the intersection of state, federal and international regulations that affect the transfer, storage and collection of data to minimize her client’s litigation risks. Rebecca regularly negotiates complex contractual provisions that are impacted by domestic and international data privacy regulations including the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. She serves on the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Cyber Task Force and is vice-chair elect for the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Law Section. Rebecca has been appointed and has served in multiple highly complex litigation matters by the New Jersey Superior Court as a special master in the areas of technology and eDiscovery. She also served on the Complex Business Litigation Committee that drafted and revised the New Jersey Court Rules involving electronic discovery. Rebecca was on the eDiscovery committee of her prior law firm and created its eDiscovery subgroup. She is on the board of governors for Temple University Health Systems and is also an adjunct professor at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law.