Overview

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Managing Partner: Susan Hintze

Number of partners: 8

Number of lawyers: 17

Languages: English, Spanish

Firm Overview:

Hintze Law PLLC is a boutique privacy firm that provides counseling exclusively on global data protection. The firm’s attorneys and privacy analysts support technology, health, biotech, advertising, social networking, media, gaming, ecommerce, and mobile companies, organizations, and industry associations in all aspects of privacy and data security.

Regulatory & Public Policy:

Hintze Law provides strategic counsel on legislative, regulatory, and other policy matters, including crafting tactical input to developing laws, guidelines, standards, and self-regulatory principles.

Global Privacy and Data Compliance:

Hintze Law provides guidance on cross-border data transfers and compliance with international data protection laws, working as needed with a hand-picked team of regional counsel.

Enforcement Defense:

Hintze Law has extensive experience responding to FTC, Attorneys General, and international data protection authority inquiries and investigations, as well as managing compliance with consent decrees and settlement agreements.

Privacy & Security Policies & Programs:

Hintze Law helps clients develop privacy and security policies, training, and programs, including privacy-by-design privacy product reviews, to help build and maintain trust and compliance with privacy and data protection laws.

Privacy Assessments:

Hintze Law conducts privacy assessments and reviews at systems and product levels to identify the data clients collect, use, and store; evaluate risks; and provide strategic recommendations and solutions using efficient methods tailored to each client’s size and needs.

Data Transactions:

Hintze Law understands the value and pitfalls of consumer data in technology and marketing transactions and helps clients negotiate terms designed to protect data rights, avoid data risks, and meet regulatory and industry privacy requirements.

Privacy & Security Due Diligence:

Hintze Law has deep expertise conducting and responding to privacy and security due diligence inquiries in corporate M&A deals and developing cybersecurity and privacy SEC disclosures.

Data Security & Breaches:

Hintze Law advises clients on strategies to minimize the risk of data breaches and provides counseling on effectively and efficiently responding to data breaches.

Strategy & Communications:

Hintze Law works with companies to build privacy into their brands, create competitive differentiation strategies, and develop key messaging.

Health & Biotech:

Hintze Law provides sophisticated counsel to clients on the complete range of health information privacy and security issues and regularly develops comprehensive privacy and security compliance programs for biotechnology, medical device, digital health, and consumer wellness companies, as well as data analytics and machine learning platforms that work with health information.

Artificial Intelligence:

Hintze Law provides sophisticated privacy and data protection counsel to help clients assess and mitigate the legal, regulatory, policy, and reputational risks associated with the development, deployment, and implementation of artificial intelligence & machine learning technologies.

Contacts:

Susan Hintze, Email: susan@hintzelaw.com

Mike Hintze, Email: mike@hintzelaw.com


Rankings

Hintze Law PLLC is nationally ranked in 2 practice areas and metro ranked in 2 practice areas. Best Law Firms rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process.

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National Rankings

Tier 3
Tier 3 for Information Technology Law
Tier 3 for Technology Law

Metro Rankings

Seattle
Tier 1 for Information Technology Law
Tier 1 for Technology Law

Rankings

National Rankings

Tier 3
Tier 3 for Information Technology Law
Tier 3 for Technology Law

Regional Rankings

Seattle
Tier 1 for Information Technology Law
Tier 1 for Technology Law

Practice Areas

The below are areas of legal specialty volunteered by the firm and do not designate a specialty in which a Best Law Firms ranking is held.
  • Privacy and Data Security Law

Individuals Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America®

Hintze Law PLLC has 2 lawyers recognized for individual performance in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. By receiving this Best Lawyers recognition from their peers for their professional excellence, these lawyers made Hintze Law PLLC eligible for evaluation for Best Law Firms rankings. For almost two decades, Best Lawyers has awarded these singular accolades, making them the foundation of our Best Law Firms awards. Read more about our Best Lawyers process here.
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Awards

Awards are self-reported by firms and are not verified by the Best Law Firms rankings.
  • Chambers Global 2024 - Hintze Law PLLC
  • Chambers Global 2024 - Susan Hintze, Managing Partner
  • Chambers Global 2024 - Mike Hintze, Member Partner
  • Chambers Global 2024 - Sheila Sokolowski, Partner
  • Chambers USA 2024 - Hintze Law PLLC
  • Chambers USA 2024 - Susan Hintze, Managing Partner
  • Chambers USA 2024 - Mike Hintze, Member Partner
  • Chambers USA 2024 - Sheila Sokolowski, Partner

Main Location

Seattle, WA
518 Yale Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98109
United States
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Management and Personnel

Member Partner
Mike Hintze
Managing Partner
Susan Hintze

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