Justine Phillips
Biography
Practice Focus
Justine focuses her practice on both proactive and reactive cybersecurity and data protection services, representing multinational clients in matters related to incident preparedness and response, compliance with global cyber laws, privileged cyber investigations and gap assessments, data governance, data and cyber litigation.
She provides actionable and practical guidance to help businesses manage data, technology, cyber threats, privacy, security and digital assets. As businesses navigate complex and far-reaching laws and regulations, Justine proactively creates compliance programs customized to client needs and budgets, including data mapping, vendor management, privacy and security by design, cyber risk management and mitigation, workforce policies, data retention and destruction policies and implementation, consumer request workflows, cyber-awareness policies and trainings, and CCPA/CPRA readiness audits. Justine is nationally recognized for her thought leadership and role in providing reactive cyber services, including incident response, crisis management, privileged forensic investigations into business email compromises, data breaches and ransomware attacks, compliance with notice obligations to individuals and regulators, regulatory inquiries and investigations, and cyber litigation. Justine also handles employment litigation and counseling, as well as commercial litigation.
Professional Honors
- Named to The Best Lawyers in America for Privacy and Data Security Law (2023)
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Infragard San Diego - Vice president
- Cyber Law Symposium - Founder and chair
- San Diego Cyber Council - Founder
Admissions
- California~United States
- U.S. Supreme Court
Education
- University of San Diego School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude) (2005)
- University of San Diego (B.A.) (1999)