Tenaya Rodewald is an associate in the Privacy and Cybersecurity and Litigation practices, and divides her time between the firm’s Palo Alto and Brussels offices. Tenaya advises clients of all sizes on legal issues related to privacy and online content distribution, including state and federal privacy laws, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, data breach response, and responding to private litigant and government demands for information.
Tenaya’s recent work has focused on helping US companies and non-profit organizations comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Tenaya’s litigation practice focuses on intellectual property litigation, consumer class action defense, defamation defense and First Amendment litigation.
She has represented online music and video distributors, computer hardware manufacturers, publishers, nonprofits, and studios in litigation in state and federal court. Prior to joining Sheppard Mullin, Tenaya was an associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan LLP and at a boutique litigation firm in Los Angeles.
Tenaya was a judicial intern for the Honorable Naomi Reice Buchwald, Southern District of New York, and an intern in the United States Attorney’s Office, Civil Division, Southern District of New York. Tenaya earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, San Diego in 2003.
Education:
- J.D., New York University School of Law, 2006, cum laude
- Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2003
- B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1997, highest honors
Admissions :
- California
- Northern and Central Districts of California
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