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Julia Alonzo is the Litigation Department Legal Director.  She works closely with the department’s co-chairs to manage its business and operations, and works with the entire department to execute on its strategic plan.  As a long-time Proskauer lawyer, and an accomplished member of its Litigation Department,  Julia has taken on an additional firm-wide leadership role that focuses on building a community that  provides fair opportunities for women attorneys across all departments and at all stages of their careers.

Julia also serves on the Firm’s Hiring Committee and Summer Program Committee.

Until 2024, Julia was a Senior Counsel in Proskauer’s Litigation Department, with a focus on securities, corporate governance, and restructuring litigation.

Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”) is alive and well as a potential breeding ground for litigation for tech companies. In the last month, two settlements have been announced in class actions where the plaintiffs alleged violations of BIPA in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. These settlements show that companies collecting biometrics should take care to ensure that their practices do not run afoul of BIPA’s requirements.