Starr Turner Drum

Maynard Nexsen

Starr leads the privacy division of Maynard's Cybersecurity & Privacy Practice. She assists clients with everything from developing globally-compliant privacy programs to defending privacy-focused litigation and regulatory investigations. Starr has successfully developed hundreds of internationally compliant privacy and information governance plans across several sectors and has served as privacy due diligence counsel in billions of dollars’ worth of private equity and M&A-related transactions. Starr is passionate about defending her clients’ interests in adversarial proceedings and has successfully defended numerous state and federal privacy and security class actions and regulatory investigations. She is regularly invited to speak on emerging privacy and data issues, such as AI, biometrics, children’s privacy, digital marketing, data analytics, and more. She also serves as an adjunct professor at The University of Alabama School of Law where she teaches privacy and data security law.