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IRVINE, Calif. (March 11, 2024) – Womble Bond Dickinson today announced that partners Scott Hyman, CIPP (US/EU), CIPM, CIPT and Genevieve Walser-Jolly, CIPP/US have joined the Firm’s Business Litigation Group in Irvine. Hyman and Walser-Jolly bring extensive privacy and cybersecurity experience that spans litigation to regulatory and compliance matters. Their practices also focus on representing financial services sector clients in individual and consumer class actions.
“Scott and Genevieve’s credentialing and experience materially expand the support we can offer clients navigating putative class action claims and data privacy matters, among other high-demand areas,” said Business Litigation Practice Group Leader Lisa Rushton. “They bring diverse leadership experience and a strong reputation in Southern California that will further support our growth in that market and across our platform.”
“Scott and Genevieve’s credentialing and experience materially expand the support we can offer clients navigating putative class action claims and data privacy matters, among other high-demand areas. They bring diverse leadership experience and a strong reputation in Southern California that will further support our growth in that market and across our platform.”
Lisa Rushton, Business Litigation Practice Group Leader, Womble Bond Dickinson
These additions build on the Firm’s focus on adding depth to its litigation bench on the West Coast. Since July, 21 lawyers have joined its Mass Torts and Business Litigation Groups in California, including product liability partners Macy Chan, Thomas Remillard, Mirna Scheffy, and Claire Weglarz; complex litigation partners Patricia Cymerman and Edward Kim; and business litigation financial services partners Tomio Narita and Jeff Topor.
About the new partners:
Scott Hyman has three decades of experience representing financial institutions, national banks, automobile finance companies, and loan servicers. He has counseled and defended clients on privacy and cybersecurity, licensing and regulatory matters, and individual and class actions brought under state and federal Truth-in-Lending laws, UDAP laws, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
Hyman holds CIPP (US/EU), CIPM, and CIPT privacy certifications and is a member of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers. He is currently serving his second term on the Debt Collection Advisory Committee of California’s Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI).
Genevieve Walser-Jolly represents financial institutions, including banks, lenders, and loan servicers. Her practice includes defending individual and consumer class actions (e.g., data privacy, mortgage servicing, TCPA, and auto finance) and developing data privacy and security programs that comply with federal statutory schemes and the evolving patchwork of state privacy laws. Walser-Jolly also assists clients as they compile data maps, update vendor management programs, draft contractual privacy requirements and policies, and operationalize comprehensive consumer response programs.
A Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US), Walser-Jolly serves as vice chair of the Privacy and Data Security Subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s Consumer Financial Services Committee. She is also an author of the California Continuing Education of the Bar’s treatises on the California Consumer Privacy Act (Ch.10A, Privacy Litigation) and Privacy Laws Affecting Debtors and Debt Collection (Ch. 2C, Debt Collection Practice).
