Paul G. Karlsgodt
Baker & Hostetler LLP
Paul Karlsgodt is the national leader of Baker Hostetler's national Class Action Defense practice team, with particular focus on data privacy and consumer class actions. He has represented companies in the insurance, healthcare, retail, energy and telecommunications industries in numerous nationwide and statewide consumer class action lawsuits and related litigation. Karlsgodt is also the Denver office Litigation group coordinator. He is editor and primary contributor to the legal blog, ClassActionBlawg.com, which covers a variety of class action-related issues, including decisions, trends, best practices, news and reform, both in the U.S. and throughout the world. He is an active member of the Class Actions and Derivative Suits (CADS) Committee of the ABA Section of Litigation, chairing the Regional Meetings subcommittee. Karlsgodt has defended clients in class action lawsuits arising out of some of the largest ever data security incidents as well as other class actions involving alleged violations of privacy rights. He was named a Trailblazer in CyberSecurity and Data Privacy by the National Law Journal in 2015 and a Law360 MVP in the area of privacy law for 2014 and 2015.
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