Expert guidance at the intersection of AI risk, privacy, and organizational governance.
Privacy Legal helps executive teams understand where digital risk originates, how regulatory duties apply across jurisdictions, and which controls are necessary to maintain trust and accountability. Drawing on extensive advisory experience, the firm provides strategic guidance to organizations that require informed, defensible decision-making in complex environments.
Core Advisory Capabilities
Privacy Legal supports leadership teams with strategic guidance across the areas most affected by AI, data-intensive systems, and evolving regulatory expectations. Our capabilities focus on strengthening governance, improving decision quality, and helping organizations operate responsibly in complex digital environments.
AI & Digital Risk Advisory
Organizations face increasing exposure as AI systems influence decisions, workflows, and public-facing interactions. Privacy Legal provides strategic guidance on assessing risk, understanding liability, and establishing the oversight required to ensure AI is deployed responsibly. Our advisory support helps leaders evaluate tools, anticipate consequences, and implement structures that preserve accountability.
Privacy & Data Governance Strategy
Effective data governance is a precondition for compliance, trust, and operational resilience. We help organizations design or refine governance models, evaluate data practices, address cross-border data flows, and align internal processes with regulatory obligations. Our approach emphasizes clarity, defensibility, and long-term organizational maturity.
Regulatory Interpretation & Compliance Guidance
Modern privacy and AI regulation evolves faster than many institutions can respond. Privacy Legal translates statutory requirements into practical, implementable guidance tailored to organizational context. We support clients in understanding multijurisdictional obligations, preparing for emerging regulatory trends, and ensuring that actions taken today withstand future scrutiny.
Governance Structures & Accountability Models
Leadership teams require clear frameworks that define responsibility, oversight, and escalation across the organization. We assist with designing governance structures that reflect legal duties, operational realities, and the risks introduced by data-driven systems. This includes role definition, policy development, accountability mapping, and ongoing oversight protocols.
Executive and Board Education & Leadership Briefings
Organizational decisions are only as strong as the understanding behind them. Privacy Legal provides tailored education for boards, executives, and senior leaders, focusing on AI risk, privacy obligations, digital autonomy, and the implications of system-level change. These sessions equip decision-makers with the judgment needed to navigate complex technological environments.
Incident Response & Risk Mitigation Analysis
When breaches or governance failures occur, organizations require rapid, informed guidance. We support incident response with structured analysis, support for counsel, remediation planning, and operational lessons that strengthen future resilience. Our work emphasizes clarity, defensibility, and the disciplined management of sensitive information.
Deep experience in global privacy, data governance, and digital risk.
Privacy Legal is led by Constantine Karbaliotis, a senior privacy lawyer and advisor with more than two decades of experience supporting organizations facing complex data governance, AI risk, and regulatory challenges. His professional designations—CIPP/C/US/E, CIPM, CIPT, CDPSE, FIP, AIGP and QTE—reflect recognized expertise across global privacy law, program design, information governance, and digital risk management.
Constantine has developed and operated international privacy programs, managed cross-border data obligations, and guided organizations through significant domestic and international breach events. His advisory work spans private-sector enterprises, public institutions, industry associations, and law firms that require clear, defensible guidance in fast-moving regulatory environments.
Privacy Legal provides direction aligned with current global and regional standards, including GDPR, PIPEDA, PIPL, CPRA/CCPA, VCDPA, CPA, CTDPA, and CASL, and assists organizations in preparing for emerging legislation and evolving governance expectations. This ensures clients maintain compliance, accountability, and operational clarity as frameworks mature worldwide.
As a recognized international speaker and educator, Constantine brings clarity to issues that are often difficult for leadership teams to assess. His experience across legal, operational, and strategic domains ensures that every engagement delivers practical, informed, and defensible guidance—grounded in real-world complexity and relevant across jurisdictions.
How Organizations Work With Us
Organizations engage Privacy Legal when they require informed, defensible direction on privacy, data governance, and AI risk. Our advisory support is structured to meet the needs of leadership teams that must respond to complex technological, operational, and regulatory demands.
We work with clients through focused strategic engagements, retainer-based advisory support, or on-demand guidance for emerging issues. Whether assisting boards, executive teams, counsel, or public institutions, our priority is to provide clear judgment, disciplined analysis, and practical direction tailored to organizational context.
Who We Support
Privacy Legal works with organizations that operate under complex legal, operational, and governance demands, including:
- Public-sector institutions
- Large and mid-sized enterprises
- Highly regulated industries
- Industry associations
- Domestic and international law firms
- Multinational organizations managing cross-border data obligations
