Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® in six different practice areas, John Hutchins is a veteran trial and technology lawyer with broad experience encompassing complex commercial and intellectual property litigation and trial work, privacy and data security, and compliance and strategic counseling on technology matters and transactions.
John’s more than 30 years of first chair trial and litigation experience runs the gamut in subject matter, from software and eminent domain to vintage race cars, privacy class actions and death penalty habeas corpus. He has particular experience in litigating matters involving privacy and data security, technology, intellectual property, government procurement, restrictive covenants and breach of fiduciary duty. He has tried numerous cases to jury verdict in state and federal courts, as well as bench trials, arbitrations, administrative and other evidentiary proceedings. He also frequently represents hospitals and other healthcare organizations in cutting-edge “Pixel” class action lawsuits and other clients in various industries in data breach class actions, in federal and state courts around the country.
His privacy and data security experience includes advising hundreds of clients on incident response, compliance with state, federal and international privacy and data security laws and guidance. He has led clients in responding to data security incidents of all types, including ransomware attacks. He founded the privacy and data security practices at two previous law firms, dating back to 2005.
His transactional practice consists of a mix of complex technology transactions, including sourcing deals, hosted services arrangements, cloud computing, technology licensing, systems procurement and project implementation.
John is a frequent speaker and has published widely on privacy, data security and technology law topics. His published work has been cited by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, and he has been interviewed or quoted by news outlets such as National Public Radio, Fortune, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Forbes, ComputerWorld and Law360. His versatility has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® with listings in six different practice areas – Privacy and Data Security, Litigation (Intellectual Property), Technology, Commercial Litigation, Copyright and Information Technology. He has twice been chosen “Lawyer of the Year” in Atlanta by The Best Lawyers in America® – once in 2017 for Information Technology Law and again in 2020 for Technology Law.