Kirk Nahra, CIPP/US

WilmerHale

Co-Chair, Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice

Kirk J. Nahra is a partner with WilmerHale in Washington, D.C., where is Co-Chair of the firm’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice as well as Co-Chair of the Big Data Practice. He assists companies in a wide range of industries in analyzing and implementing the requirements of privacy and security laws across the country and internationally. He advises companies in virtually all industries, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups, on issues including data breaches, enforcement actions, contract negotiations, business strategy, research and de-identification issues and overall privacy, data security and cybersecurity compliance. 

He teaches both Information Privacy Law and Health Care Privacy and Data Security Law as an adjunct professor at the Washington College of Law at American University. He teaches regularly as an adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve University Law School and the University of Maine Law School, and guest lectures regularly at other law schools on privacy and data security issues. In addition, he currently serves as a fellow with the Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine & Law at Washington University in St. Louis and as a fellow with the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology.

He served as a longtime member of the IAPP Board of Directors, as Chair of the Publications Committee and was a founding member of the Privacy Bar Section. He received the 2021 Privacy Vanguard Award from IAPP in recognition of his “exceptional leadership, knowledge and creativity in privacy and data protection.” 

 

Contributions by Kirk Nahra

  • Managing Legal Ethics in Uncertain Legal Times – MCLE Ethics Credit Eligible
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2025
  • Managing Legal Ethics in Uncertain Legal Times – MCLE Ethics Credit Eligible
    Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2024
  • Managing Legal Ethics in Uncertain Legal Times – MCLE Ethics Credit Eligible
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2024
  • Law. Ethics. Technology. Uncertainty. MCLE Ethics Credit Eligible
    Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2023
  • AI Era: Challenges and Opportunities in AI Oversight
    Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2023
  • Academia Meets Private Practice: Building Better Privacy Laws
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023
  • Law. Ethics. Technology. Uncertainty. MCLE Ethics Credit Eligible!
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023
  • Foundations of Privacy & Data Protection
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023
  • Privacy Bootcamp
    Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2022
  • Academia Meets Private Practice: Developing the “Best” State Privacy Law
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2022
  • Law. Ethics. Technology. Uncertainty. (MCLE Ethics Credit Eligible!)
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2022
  • Law. Ethics. Technology. Uncertainty. - MCLE Ethics Credit Eligible!
    Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2021
  • Privacy Bootcamp
    Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2021
  • A public service announcement about the HIPAA Privacy Rule
    Privacy Perspectives
  • 6 things to watch for in the US privacy law debate
    Privacy Perspectives
  • Healthcare Privacy Law Developments to Watch in 2021
    Speaker at Virtual St. Louis KnowledgeNet: January 21, 2021
  • Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination in Health Care and Beyond
    Web Conference Speaker
  • Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2020 - Canceled