Cyber & Technology Law

The digital landscape does not wait — and neither does the legal exposure it creates. Galloway Johnson Tompkins Burr & Smith provides cyber legal counsel that protects organizations before a breach occurs and defends them when one does.

We advise and defend businesses and their insurers across Louisiana, Texas, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Missouri, operating at the intersection of cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, and risk governance. Our counsel is calibrated to the operational realities of corporate legal departments and insurance programs, with jurisdiction-specific awareness built into every engagement.

Companies across industries are collecting sensitive data at an unprecedented scale — creating legal obligations to take reasonable protective measures, respond appropriately when data is compromised, and notify affected individuals and regulators as required. Galloway technology attorneys bring experience, legal precision, and technical fluency to these challenges.

Cyber Liability Defense and Incident Response

Galloway supports clients through the full incident lifecycle:

• Incident readiness and response — Coordinated crisis management, breach notification analysis, and real-time support during an incident, followed by post-incident litigation strategy where necessary.
• Privacy and data governance — Counsel on data collection, management practices, and business-to-business agreements that incorporate cyber risk allocation and regulatory obligations.
• E-commerce and vendor ecosystems — Drafting and negotiating vendor agreements, terms of use, privacy policies, and electronic contracts aligned with business operations and risk transfer objectives.
• Technology professional liability — Defense of claims involving IT professionals and security leadership, including evaluation of master service agreements, licensing, hosting, and data processing issues.
• Insurance alignment — Analysis of cyber insurance coverage, policy terms, exclusions, and gaps to ensure clients fully understand the scope of their coverage.
• Privileged protocol — Structuring attorney-client privilege and work-product protection around pre-breach risk assessments and vendor security reviews to preserve confidentiality from the outset.

Regulatory Expertise

Galloway attorneys provide regulatory advice grounded in federal and state breach notification law. We maintain active expertise across HIPAA and HITECH, GDPR, DoD Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification and CUI requirements, the FTC Safeguards Rule, and SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules.

We offer flexible engagement models to match business objectives — discrete project engagements with defined deliverables (ideal for policy development, privilege design, insurance alignment, and training), or retained advisory relationships providing ongoing access to legal strategy as regulatory requirements and risk landscapes evolve.

Galloway also delivers targeted education and training to compliance, legal, and operations teams on notification obligations and data protection requirements under applicable regulatory frameworks.

Artificial Intelligence Governance, Compliance, and Defense

Galloway assists organizations in governing and defending AI use in ways that align operational objectives with regulatory expectations. We draft and implement AI use policies, employee monitoring disclosures, data retention policies, and data protection frameworks compliant with GDPR, HIPAA/HITECH, state biometric and disclosure laws, and emerging federal AI guidance.

We track regulatory and professional body developments in real time, advise on evolving AI liability trends — including negligence and product liability — and support compliance and risk management as issues arise. Where AI intersects with data and platform operations, we align contracting with business needs and risk transfer objectives, and coordinate incident response and post-incident litigation as needed.

Coverage, Litigation, and Regulatory Defense

Galloway provides thorough coverage analysis across technology, cyber liability, and personal and advertising injury claims, with careful attention to coordination among stakeholders. When disputes or enforcement actions arise, our attorneys apply focused early case assessment and motion practice while remaining prepared for trial — analyzing scope and exposure, jurisdiction and venue, and discovery proportionality to sharpen decision-making throughout the matter lifecycle.

Risk Integration

Galloway bridges legal obligations, insurance requirements, and operational guidance. Our attorneys identify legal exposure in current data collection and management practices, assign accountability, implement data retention policy, and align legal strategies with organizational controls — including drafting and negotiating vendor agreements and terms of use.

We build the framework before pressure applies. Our pre-incident notification architecture is designed so that when a triggering event occurs, decisions and actions are automatic, not improvised.

Why Galloway

• Prevention first. We focus on eliminating breach exposure before a crisis, not just managing one after the fact.
• When incidents occur, we respond swiftly to protect your business and brand.
• Every engagement produces usable assets: policies, frameworks, checklists, and playbooks.
• We speak the language of risk officers, boards, and insurers — bridging legal strategy with operational reality.
• We actively track HIPAA, GDPR, state law, and FTC developments to keep clients ahead of the regulatory curve.
• With 14 offices across seven states, we have the regional reach and venue knowledge to serve regional and national clients across state lines.