Faculty Profile: Lynn Sessions

Lynn Sessions leads the Healthcare Privacy and Compliance team in the Digital Assets and Data Management Practice Group and serves as national co-lead of the Healthcare Industry team, demonstrating a career of advising healthcare industry clients in various areas of the law. She focuses her practice now on healthcare privacy and data security, breach response, regulatory defense and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance. Having previously served as in-house counsel and director of several departments at Texas Children’s Hospital, Lynn collaborates closely with healthcare clients and approaches her legal representation from a client’s perspective.

Lynn also regularly advises universities, medical schools and other higher educational institutions on breach preparedness, incident response and regulatory defense, and proactive compliance.

Lynn is a frequent speaker and writer on a range of topics affecting healthcare industry and university clients, including HIPAA compliance, data breach response, Office for Civil Rights investigations, Department of Education investigations, cyberliability and enterprise risk management.