Mountain View, Calif. (November 24, 2014)– Fenwick & West announced today that partner Tyler Newby has been recognized as MVPs of the Year by national legal news publication Law360 in respectively the securities litigation, privacy and capital markets categories. With two attorneys recognized across two specialties, Fenwick is among the top 20 percent of law firms with the most MVP attorneys.
“Competition for the MVP distinction was fiercer than ever this year, with editors reviewing more than 800 MVP submissions to arrive at the winners,” Law360 noted in an editorial.
Law360 said that the MVPs, or “Dream Team Lawyers,” are “attorneys who had extraordinary wins and contributed most to their practice area in the past year.”
Tyler Newby, who rejoined Fenwick from the U.S. Department of Justice in 2011, has been on the cutting edge of cybersecurity and online privacy issues since the topics first became matters of government oversight. Now co-chair of Fenwick’s Privacy and Information Security Group, Newby advises high technology companies on how to balance the demands of law enforcement requests, national security and the privacy of their users and uses his DOJ trial experience to go to bat for his clients at trial in privacy litigation cases.
This summer, Newby obtained a resolution of a privacy class action against Fenwick client Pandora and obtained dismissal with prejudice of a putative class action against client Symantec. He is currently representing numerous Fenwick start-up clients in various consumer privacy and Telephone Communication Protection Act cases. In addition to his litigation practice, he regularly counsels clients on data collection and use, children’s privacy, privacy investigations by various arms of the government and investigations of network security breaches.
The full list of MVPs of the Year is available through the Law360 website (subscription required).
About Fenwick & West
Fenwick & West provides comprehensive legal services to ground-breaking technology and life sciences companies at every stage of their lifecycle. We craft innovative, cost-effective and practical solutions for established and emerging companies on issues ranging from venture capital, public offerings, joint ventures, M&A and strategic relationships, to intellectual property, litigation and dispute resolution, taxation, antitrust, and employment and labor law. For more than four decades, Fenwick has helped some of the world's most recognized companies become and remain market leaders.