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Margaret Dale

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(212) 969-3315 mdale@proskauer.com

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Litigation

Position

Margaret Dale is a trial lawyer and first-chair litigator handling complex business disputes across a wide variety of industries, including: consumer products, media and entertainment, financial services, telecommunications and technology, and higher education. She is a former vice-chair of Proskauer’s Litigation Department, and heads the Department’s Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice Group.

Margaret’s practice covers the spectrum of complex commercial disputes, including privacy and data security matters, as well as disputes involving M&A, intellectual property, bankruptcy and insolvency, securities, corporate governance, and asset management.

Margaret regularly counsels clients before litigation commences to assess risk, adopt strategies to minimize or deflect disputes, and resolve matters without going to court.

Margaret is a frequent writer, including authoring a regular column on corporate and securities law in the New York Law Journal. She also serves as the lead editor of Proskauer’s blog on commercial litigation, Minding Your Business. She also authored the chapter titled “Privileges” in the treatise Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts (Haig, 5th ed.), as well as the chapter titled “Data Breach Litigation” in PLI’s Proskauer on Privacy.

Margaret maintains an active pro bono practice advocating on issues relating to women, children and veterans. She serves on the Board of Directors of CFR (Center for Family Representation), VLA (Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts), JALBC (Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert), and the City Bar Fund.

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United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)

The privacy and cybersecurity team at Proskauer Rose LLP counsels clients from a broad range of industries, bringing together team members’ experience in corporate law, litigation, and sports law to serve clients’ data and cyber-related needs, its cyber work for sports clients a particular hallmark. Ryan Blaney co-heads the team with Leslie Shanklin, who joined the practice in July 2023 from an in-house position; both are based in Washington DC. Blaney has notable experience defending clients in regulatory investigations, and in working with healthcare industry clients. New York-based Margaret Dale co-heads the firm’s data privacy and cybersecurity litigation group, specialising in complex business disputes. Co-heading the cyber litigation group with Dale in New York is Nolan Goldberg, whose practice focuses on technology-centric litigation.

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