Tara Sugiyama Potashnik is an associate in the firm’s Regulatory Practice Group, where she focuses her practice on privacy and data security, and consumer credit and financial services.  Ms. Potashnik represents clients in the advertising, banking and consumer finance, communications, information services, marketing, media, and retail industries.  Ms. Potashnik counsels clients on legislation and rulemaking proceedings, and advocates on behalf of clients in ongoing regulatory compliance and other matters before the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, U.S. Department of Commerce and various other federal and state agencies and commissions.  Ms. Potashnik serves on the firm’s CFPB Task Force.

Ms. Potashnik has significant experience as a mediator and with alternative dispute resolution procedures, which informs her approach to assisting clients with ongoing compliance matters.  She holds conflict and dispute resolution certificates from the Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution at The Hague, New York University’s School of Continuing Education and the Michigan Supreme Court Administrative Office’s General Civil Mediation Training.

Prior to joining Venable, Ms. Potashnik served as a judicial extern to the Honorable William H. Alsup in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

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