Jenn O. Hatcher

Jenn focuses her practice on class action and complex litigation, as well as appellate work, particularly in the areas of privacy and cybersecurity law. Jenn’s experience in complex litigation involves handling matters at every stage from pretrial counseling to appeals. Before joining Shook, she clerked for the Missouri Supreme Court and the Nevada Supreme Court. Jenn brings her perspective as an experienced appellate clerk in developing strategy at all stages for her clients.

A litigator at the forefront of privacy and cybersecurity-related class action defense, Jenn defends clients in lawsuits arising from technologies used to collect, store, use, or share personal information. Jenn’s representative matters include the following:

• Data Breach Litigation – Jenn has successfully represented major health care providers, banking institutions, government agencies, and private universities, among others, in large-scale data breach class actions. 
• Website Privacy Litigation – Jenn has represented a variety of entities in lawsuits arising from the use of website marketing tools, like session replay, tags, and pixels. These “novel” lawsuits are based on alleged violations of state/federal wiretap laws, federal privacy laws, state consumer protection laws, and common law theories of liability.  
• Biometric Technology Litigation – Jenn has represented scores of companies in lawsuits (and proactive counseling) arising from clients’ use of technology that uses biometric identifiers for authentication. Most significantly, her work has involved the defense of companies sued under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. 
• Privacy and Cybersecurity Litigation and Legislation Tracking – Jenn leads a team of lawyers responsible for identifying and tracking trends in emerging privacy litigation. Bolstered by her experience as a legislative policy fellow for former Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval, Jenn closely monitors these developments to ensure her clients are proactively positioned to defend pending litigation as well as mitigate future risks. 

Jenn previously was a high school English teacher working in learning development and improvement, and designed district-wide curricula for other teachers. Relying on her background as a high school teacher, Jenn focuses her active pro bono practice on helping juveniles through contact with the legal system in any form—ranging from juvenile delinquency charges to adoption proceedings.