Karen Painter Randall is a Partner and Certified Civil Trial attorney at Connell Foley
LLP in New Jersey, where she serves as Chair of the firm’s Cybersecurity and Data
Privacy practice group. Randall has an extensive background counseling lawyers and
law firms, health care entities, financial institutions, educational facilities, transportation
and retail clients on information security laws and regulations, including GDPR, and
providing proactive plans to address the myriad industry cyber risks they each face.
She serves as a "breach response coach" across various industries, as well as for
cyber insurance carriers, and offers strategic solutions related to post-breach matters
including statutory consumer notification requirements, class action litigation, regulatory
compliance and enforcement actions, forensics investigation and remediation. She also
represents businesses in all facets of information security preparedness and incident
response. Randall advises clients and assists with conducting security risk assessments,
including assessing vendor contractual relationships, as well as implementing data
security and information governance policies and procedures, security awareness training
for employees and incident response plans.
A member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and co-chair
of its New Jersey KnowledgeNet Chapter, Randall is integral to numerous efforts to
guide clients on information security and the ethics of data protection. She received
two ABA presidential appointments to serve on the Cybersecurity Legal Task Force and
the Standing Committee on Lawyer’s Professional Liability. She is a founder and co-chair
of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Cybersecurity Legal Task Force. Randall
also serves as vice chair of the USLAW Network Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Group,
and is the director of the University of South Carolina School of Law’s Cybersecurity
Legal Task Force. In addition, she is a member and presenter for Healthcare Information
Management Systems Society. She was selected as Contributing Practitioner on cyber
and privacy issues for Bloomberg Law: Privacy & Data Security, focusing on the regulatory
and compliance landscape of data protection laws in the U.S. and globally. A Fellow
of the American Bar Foundation, Randall was appointed by Chief Justice Stuart Rabner
to serve on the Board on Civil Trial Certification.