Eleanor is a specialist data protection and regulatory lawyer with significant experience of acting for a range of clients including insurers, banks, healthcare providers and credit reference agencies.

Data Protection

Eleanor has particular expertise in advising insurers on data protection matters, including having spent a year on secondment to one of the world's largest insurers in its global privacy compliance team, deputising for the Data Protection Officer.

Eleanor’s recent experience includes guiding an insurer through various data security breaches, notifying the appropriate regulators and managing correspondence with them thereafter. Eleanor regularly advises insurers in respect of data subject rights and recently managed a sizeable and highly sensitive employee data subject access request for an insurer.

Eleanor has advised clients in respect of the data protection compliance steps for the global roll out of various new technologies, including undertaking appropriate data protection impact assessments. Eleanor has assisted clients with GDPR readiness and implementation programmes and has drafted and negotiated appropriate contractual documentation. Eleanor also recently assisted a client with a detailed review of its GDPR programme to ensure ongoing compliance.

Eleanor is experienced in managing multi-jurisdictional projects, including assisting in the roll-out of new data protection laws project plans for clients.

Eleanor regularly provides bespoke training to clients on a range of data protection topics.

Regulatory

Eleanor has experience of acting on a range of regulatory issues including contentious and non-contentious matters. Her recent experience includes advising on material outsourcing issues for an insurer. When Eleanor practised in commercial litigation, she acted on contentious regulatory investigations for professional services firms. The combination of her contentious and non-contentious regulatory experience makes her well-placed to liaise with regulators and advise clients on the development of regulatory investigations.

Returners Issues

Eleanor is one of five Back to Law Ambassadors for the Law Society, assisting people who are returning to the law after a career break, whether through providing feedback on CVs, helping people prepare for interviews or more generally in building confidence in readiness for a return. She regularly speaks at events on issues specific to people returning to careers in law, including challenging stereotypes and misperceptions.