Amanda McAllister Novak

Education

• University of Minnesota Law School, JD (magna cum laude), Order of the Coif, 2017
• University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, BA (with honors), 2012

Amanda is a member of the Cyber and Data Privacy team and focuses her practice on complex and emerging privacy, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity matters. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional in US (CIPP/US) and European law (CIPP/E) as well as an Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP) through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Amanda advises clients of all sizes across diverse sectors on security incident response by coordinating and overseeing digital forensics investigations, ransom negotiations, and network remediation, analyzing obligations under state, federal, and international data breach notification statutes, facilitating the fulfillment of consumer, contractual, and regulatory notification obligations, and responding to investigations from government agencies and regulators.

Amanda provides compliance advice and guidance on the evolving state, federal, and international privacy regimes, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and other data security and privacy laws and regulations. She also helps clients to draft and implement privacy compliance programs, including data subject request processes, internal and external-facing privacy and security policies, cross-border data transfer mechanisms, incident response plans, data processing agreements, and privacy and data security provisions in service agreements.

During law school, Amanda was an editor of the Minnesota Law Review, where she wrote on the intersection of artificial intelligence and the law. She has since published articles in academic journals on issues pertaining to international law, emerging technologies, and peace and security.

Amanda is very active in her local and legal community. She has provided pro bono legal services to asylum seekers and has been involved in international advocacy, conflict research and education, and reports advancing human rights, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law through her work with various human rights organizations. She is also a board member of The Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota, where she has assisted with the rehabilitation of injured raptors.

In 2017, Amanda received the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center Award for Outstanding Contribution and was awarded the Rada Distinguished Alumni Award by the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse in 2024.

Memberships

• Member, International Association of Privacy Professionals
• Board Member, The Raptor Center of the University of Minnesota