Molly A. Arranz

For Molly Arranz, being a lawyer is about being an advocate. Growing up, she witnessed legal challenges her father faced while he ran his own, small business—issues that resulted from his not finding necessary legal assistance for his company’s needs. Her decision to go to law school stemmed from her desire to address this gap and provide legal support for businesses like the one her father owned.

Molly is the chair of Amundsen Davis’s Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Service Group. She is a certified privacy professional (CIPP-US) and a recognized Privacy Law Specialist by the American Bar Association. With two decades-worth of defending companies in consumer privacy class actions and against a backdrop of emerging data privacy laws, Molly advises companies in all industries regarding compliance with a patchwork of privacy laws and regulations, including: consumer privacy and protection regulations; tracking technology disclosures; consumers’ and employees’ rights to access, limit, correct and delete their data; and state and federally mandated notification, disclosure and consent requirements.

She also advises a range of companies on their incident response protocol and serves as a breach coach for companies of all sizes, including multinational and international companies. She has counseled a global telecommunications software and cloud computing company on compliance issues for its cloud services. She reviews and advises on data protection addendums and agreements.

Molly also chairs the firm’s Class Action Service Group. She has defended more than 150 class actions involving a range of legal theories, including privacy violations, consumer fraud, breach of contract, breach of warranty, breach of confidentiality and misrepresentation. She defends clients in claims arising out of the Federal and State Wiretap Act, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the Chicago Residential Landlord and Tenant Ordinance (RLTO), CERCLA, the Clean Water Act, and RCRA. She represents a wide variety of companies from small family-owned businesses to Fortune 500 companies.

In her career, Molly has also defended more than 75 mass tort cases involving claims arising from allegations of exposure to asbestos, silica and benzene.