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Movers & Shakers

Judy Selby, a frequent contributor to this newsletter's predecessor, e-Commerce Law & Strategy, left her position as co-chair of Baker & Hostetler's information governance team, to become a managing director at BDO Consulting, with a focus on cybersecurity and cyber insurance.

Saul Ewing added April Doss, previously an associate general counsel for intelligence law at the National Security Agency, as a partner in Baltimore and Washington, DC, where she will lead the firm's newly formalized cybersecurity and privacy practice.

Richard Borden, a former senior vice president and assistant general counsel at Bank of America Corp., joined Hartford, CT-based Robinson & Cole as counsel for its cybersecurity and data privacy team.

DLA Piper hired Rena Mears, managing director of data risk, cybersecurity and privacy at Am Law 200 firm BuckleySandler, as a principal for its cybersecurity group in San Francisco. Mears, a former leader of privacy and data protection services at accounting giant Deloitte, does not provide legal services as a nonlawyer.

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