Liisa Thomas was profiled by her alma mater, the University of Chicago Law School, tracing how she built an innovative career at the forefront of privacy and cybersecurity law. The profile highlights her commitment to continuous personal and professional growth—including earning a 2021 master’s degree in learning and organizational change—along with her leadership as co-leader of Sheppard’s global privacy and cybersecurity practice and Chicago office managing partner.
The feature also covers key moments that shaped her practice, from early work involving online trademark and child-safety issues that helped lead her to privacy law, to founding and leading privacy programs, teaching privacy and data security and authoring widely used treatises on global privacy laws and breach response. As Thomas notes about navigating an evolving landscape, “The legislative and regulatory environments in my fields are fragmentary and fluid, so there’s a lot of learning to be done and a lot of change to be managed.”
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