Mari Dugas

Mari focuses her practice on cybersecurity and data privacy and protection. She works with clients across a wide range of industries, focusing on financial services institutions and technology companies. Mari has experience in incident preparedness and response, risk management, information security governance and data governance/mapping. Mari also counsels clients on privacy and cybersecurity compliance regimes and privacy- and cybersecurity-related legal issues and risks in commercial agreements and corporate transactions. Mari has helped clients navigate and respond to complex state, multistate and federal regulatory investigations and examinations – including before the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), state attorneys general, and other state financial supervisory and enforcement bodies.

Mari maintains an active pro bono practice, focusing on immigration and election protection/voter rights, and leads diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in Cooley’s Washington, DC, office.

Mari is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US). She has been an adjunct professor of cybersecurity and privacy law at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia School of Law and frequently guest lectures at top law schools. Mari is a frequent contributor to publications and professional conferences on topics related to cybersecurity, national security and financial regulatory matters. She also is actively involved in supporting the security researcher community.

Before joining Cooley, Mari served in the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate of the US Cyber Command and worked on cybersecurity and election security policy issues at the Harvard Kennedy School.