Dykema Gossett PLLC
Dykema’s Data Privacy and Cybersecurity team is a multidisciplinary group of attorneys with extensive experience working closely with clients to address and to reduce their privacy and data security risks and exposures. Our team’s various areas of expertise and depth of experience are invaluable to our clients in an era of rapidly expanding regulatory requirements for pre-breach cyber security, post-breach response as well as business practices involving the collection and use of consumer information. Available 24/7 to assist clients in the aftermath of a privacy or data security incident, we also help our clients mitigate and contain regulatory and litigation exposure, as well as cyber risk. Our attorneys, many nationally recognized and Chambers-ranked leaders in their areas of expertise are smart, sophisticated, broadly skilled and deeply knowledgeable. Delivering extraordinary client service is at the heart of our close collaboration and cost-effective partnerships with our clients. It is the hallmark of who we are and has defined us as a firm for nearly 100 years.
What’s more, we’re not just committed to diversity – our firm has achieved the highest certifications and levels of industry recognized achievement in diversity commitment.
Kimberly Holmes is Senior Counsel for the Chicago office of Dykema Gossett PLLC. In that capacity, she oversees and manages the firm’s incident response program as well as data privacy and security matters for the firm on behalf of client ranging from Fortune 100 and 200 companies to midsize organizations across multiple industry verticals. Having over twenty years of executive and management experience in the specialty lines insurance industry, Kim collaborates with insured clients, brokers, industry experts and carriers as needed to achieve optimal business solutions across multiple industry landscapes.
Sean Buckley counsels innovators in two worlds—digital media and healthcare. They’re not as different as you might think. Both industries require Sean to master the legal framework and distill the business complexities. With that knowledge, he offers inspired solutions and actionable advice to improve legal processes and contract management and quickly executes deals that hold up over time.
A formidable, forward-looking, and tech-savvy litigator, Melanie Chico is consistently entrusted with protecting and advancing her clients’ interests in high-stakes, complex commercial disputes and defending them against sprawling and potentially catastrophic data privacy claims. Her combination of common sense and uncommonly effective advocacy has earned her the trust of general counsel and C-suite executives from a broad range of industries.
Dante A. Stella brings a wealth of diverse but complementary experience to his practice. A seasoned business litigator, he is also exceptionally well-versed in the multitude of ever-evolving and intersecting laws, regulations, and obligations governing the collection, use, storage, and dissemination of data by businesses across every sector of the economy.
A Certified Information Privacy Professional for both the United States and Canada, Matt Hays recognizes that compliance programs and policies involving data privacy and security can be legally sound in theory but of little value in practice if they are not grounded in business and operational realities. Working primarily with regulated insurance, health, tech, and financial services industry clients, he collaborates closely with CIOs, CMOs, and other internal constituencies to turn chaos into compliance and bring clarity to an often opaque and chaotic patchwork of state, federal, and international legal obligations.

*Designation Date: 2/2023