Karen H. Shin

Karen Shin focuses her practice on a diverse range of data privacy and information security matters, including compliance with various privacy laws and regulations, such as state comprehensive privacy laws, biometric privacy laws, state consumer health data privacy law, artificial intelligence laws, HIPAA, and state data protection and breach notification laws.

Karen also assists clients develop and implement internal and external privacy policies, drafts consents and authorizations with respect to consumer health data and protected health information, drafts various commercial and technology-related agreements on both the customer and service provider side (including contracts for goods, professional service agreements, cloud services and software, mobile applications and data licensing agreements, end user license agreements, terms of service, business associate agreements, and data processing agreements/addenda), provides compliance advice with respect to tracking technologies deployed on websites, and performs due diligence reviews related to data privacy and security for entities in the healthcare and life science industry.

She previously served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Josephine L. Staton, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. During law school, Karen served as a staff editor for the UC Irvine Law Review and a research fellow for the Korea Law Center and Lawyering Skills. She also served as co-chair for the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association and the communications chair for the Entertainment and Sports Law Society.

• 2026–2027, Ones to Watch, Corporate Law, listed in Best Lawyers in America©
• 2023, Voice for Girls Spotlight Award, by Girl Scouts of Orange County