Holland & Knight Partner Paul Bond Named Cybersecurity & Privacy MVP by Law360
PHILADELPHIA (December 1, 2025) – Holland & Knight Partner Paul Bond has been named a Cybersecurity & Privacy MVP by Law360. He is one of only four cybersecurity and privacy lawyers in the country to be selected for this honor.
In choosing Mr. Bond, Law360 cited his pivotal role in helping to amend the Wiretap Act, which recently has been used to bring suits against businesses that use third-party cookies and pixels on their websites. The amendment clarifies that there is no private right of action under the Wiretap Act and was enacted in May 2024.
"Plaintiffs' attorneys have kind of made it a cottage industry to bring suits against, especially healthcare providers, claiming that the use of this very common third-party technology violates state wiretap laws – wiretap laws that were designed essentially to curb the mafia and organized crime," Mr. Bond told Law360.
The article also recounts Mr. Bond's successful representation of LifePoint Healthcare, which was sued under Tennessee's Wiretap Act, and Comcast, which faced two dozen class actions arising from a cyberattack that affected nearly 36 million Xfinity customers. In that matter, Mr. Bond managed to transfer duplicative actions filed in state courts to the Western District of Pennsylvania, where the judge determined that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue Comcast in any federal court.
In the article, Mr. Bond called cybersecurity and privacy "the central [issues] of our age."
"Everybody wants to be known instantly and be treated in a personalized way, and so for that purpose, everyone wants information to be out there and flowing," he said. "At the same time, there is a contradictory impulse that people want their information to be secure at all times, and for them to have choices about everything, for them to be informed about everything. And those two drives are never going to be fully reconciled."
In addition to defending clients in tech- and data-related class actions, Mr. Bond counsels company founders, senior management and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and households in hardening their defenses against identity theft and responding to identity theft emergencies. Mr. Bond serves on the board of directors of the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a national nonprofit dedicated to assisting victims of identity theft. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor at Rutgers Law School, teaching Privacy Law Essentials for Corporate Counsel and Internet Law.
Read Mr. Bond's Law360 MVP profile here. (Subscription required)
Law360's MVP awards are given annually to a select group of attorneys in recognition of their successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals. After reviewing more than 900 submissions for this year's competition, Law360's team of editors arrived at a final list of 160 MVPs from 76 firms and 35 categories.