Partner, Phillips Lytle LLP
Anna Mercado Clark, Esq., CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP is a partner at Phillips Lytle LLP, a full service law firm in the U.S. and Canada. She leads Phillips Lytle’s Data Security & Privacy and e-Discovery and Digital Forensic Practice Teams and is the co-team leader of the firm’s Cryptocurrency & Bitcoin Mining Practice Team. Additionally, Anna focuses her practice in the areas of business and commercial litigation and as a former district attorney, also handles white-collar criminal matters and investigations. She regularly counsels sophisticated clients on technology solutions, risk mitigation, data protection, and compliance strategies given the constantly evolving regulatory landscape, and speaks at national and international conferences as a subject-matter expert on these issues. Ms. Clark is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University, School of Law, teaching a course on data security and privacy, as well as fundamental lawyering skills.
Ms. Clark obtained her BA in Biology from Rutgers University and J.D. from Fordham University School of Law. She was recognized in Crain’s New York Business Notable Women in Law 2022 publication, named to The Responsible 100 list and the Above & Beyond Innovators list in City & State magazine, the Lawyers of Color’s Inaugural Nation’s Best List and is a recipient of the Hon. Denny Chin ‘78 Alumni Awardee for Excellence in the Legal Profession from the Fordham University School of Law Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, among other awards. She is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Most recently, Ms. Clark was named a Ponemon Institute Distinguished Fellow and an IAPP Fellow of Information Privacy.
Ms. Clark is a member of her firm’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee, where she designs and facilitates an award-winning diversity pipeline program titled, “Peace Out!” She is a founding member of the Filipino American Lawyers Association of New York (FALA NY), for which she was the inaugural vice president. Ms. Clark is also on the Board of the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY) where she serves as Development Director and is the Northeast Regional Governor of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA). She serves as the Science & Technology Law Section Cloud Computing Committee Vice-Chair and Privacy and Computer Crime Committee Co-Chair.