Phillip J. Wiese
Phillip J. Wiese advises and defends clients in the complex and evolving privacy and cybersecurity landscape. He assists forward thinking, innovative companies across various industries, including technology, retail, and healthcare, in navigating issues such as facial recognition, biometrics, wiretapping, artificial intelligence, and website cookies. Phillip is a skilled litigator, adept at practicing in US federal and state courts through each phase of litigation, from pre-trial strategy assessments to trial and appeals.
Phillip regularly advises technology and retail clients on compliance with data privacy and cybersecurity requirements, information security policies, and incident response plans. He is well-versed on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and similar US state privacy laws; the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA); the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA); the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA); state data breach notification laws; and other state and federal laws in the ever-changing privacy landscape. Phillip works with his clients to develop creative approaches to resolve these privacy matters. While he is skilled at counseling clients through legal issues and advocating for favorable settlements, he is equally comfortable taking cases to trial when the circumstances merit.
Phillip is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) with the International Association of Privacy Professionals. He is also a member of the firm’s privacy and cybersecurity practice, as well as its class action working group. Additionally, he routinely writes on recent data privacy and CCPA developments.
Phillip has an active and wide-ranging pro bono practice. He helped a transgender inmate secure the first-in-the-country sex reassignment surgery and worked with the ACLU to support indigent criminal defense in counties across California.
While in law school, Phillip served as a judicial extern for Judge Virginia M. Kendall in the Northern District of Illinois. He was a journalist at a community newspaper before he attended law school.
