Tenaya Rodewald is a partner in the Litigation and Privacy and Cybersecurity practices, and divides her time between the firm's Silicon Valley and Brussels offices.
Tenaya's litigation practice focuses on intellectual property, media law, defamation defense and First Amendment litigation. She has represented media clients, online music and video distributors, computer hardware manufacturers, nonprofits, and others in litigation in state and federal court.
Tenaya also advises clients of all sizes on legal issues related to privacy, media law and online content distribution, including state and federal privacy laws, intellectual property compliance and enforcement, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, data breach response, and responding to private litigant and government demands for information. Tenaya's recent work has focused on helping global companies, startups and non-profit organizations comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Tenaya was awarded American Lawyer's 2020 Tony Mauro Media Lawyer Award recognizing her zealous advocacy for freedom of the press. She is also deeply committed to pro bono work and was recognized by Sheppard as Bob Gerber Pro Bono Attorney of the Year in 2019 for her work on a series of cases protecting the public's right to know about police uses of force and misconduct in California.
Prior to joining Sheppard, Tenaya was an associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan LLP and at a boutique litigation firm in Los Angeles. Tenaya earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, San Diego.