With evolving technologies comes the need to protect consumers from data overreach and the need for lawyers who understand data security and privacy law.
Diana Iketani Iorlano is a privacy lawyer and serves as outside general counsel for companies ranging from small businesses to large corporations.
She is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Through the IAPP, she is a Fellow of Information Privacy and a Certified Information Privacy Professional for the U.S., Europe and Asia. She is also a qualified data protection officer under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and is a thought leader on privacy and data security.
Iorlano is a frequent speaker on privacy and cybersecurity matters, as well as on diversity, inclusion and elimination of bias. She conducts training on privacy and cybersecurity and has taught civil procedure and strategies for summary judgments. She has also mentored countless attorneys and law students on how to create the law careers of their dreams.
With her years of experience as a business lawyer and strategist, Iorlano focuses on privacy and data security compliance, contract drafting, prelitigation and government and regulatory actions. She also provides outside general counsel services, including drafting internal policies and procedures, contract review and negotiation.
She is actively involved in all phases of case management, from intake to resolution. She represents clients in entertainment, media, technology, professional and financial services, real estate, insurance, retail, health care and other industries.
Prior to founding her own firm, Iorlano was a senior member of the privacy, data security and litigation teams at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips in Los Angeles. She began her career working at two other law firms in Los Angeles.
She graduated high school at age 16, graduated college at age 20, took a year off to tour professionally in musical theater, then obtained her law degree from University of Southern California, Gould School of Law at age 24.
In 2015, she was named Woman of the Year by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Greater Los Angeles for raising more than $110,000 for cancer research in honor of her stepson, who is a lymphoma survivor.
Iorlano served as a volunteer temporary judge for the Los Angeles Superior Court from 2004 to 2010. She has been admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of California, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and all four federal district courts in California.
Read her story in the article, Diverse & dynamic career paths, in the Summer/Fall 2024 digital issue of SmartLawyer.
