Paul Luehr is a privacy and cybersecurity partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, where he also co-leads the firm’s AI practice. With experience across law, government and consulting, he works with clients on a variety of data governance issues in retail, health care, financial services, technology, higher education and manufacturing.

Paul is consistently rated among the top incident response attorneys in the country, and previously as a consultant, he led forensic teams responding to some of the largest cyber breaches on record. Paul started his legal career at the Federal Trade Commission where he led the agency’s first internet team. As a federal prosecutor, he then pursued major cybercrimes for the U.S. Department of Justice and oversaw searches of the “20th hijacker’s” laptop after 9/11.

Paul graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and received his law degree from UCLA. Before law school he was an international commodities trader.