Practice Area

Data Privacy

Privacy policies, DPAs, cookie notice and more, all drafted and redlined to BigLaw standard. We provide these at a flat fee, turned around in hours instead of weeks.

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§ 01 — Overview

Your contracts shouldn't slow down your business

Stalled contracts can hold businesses up for weeks. We move at lightning speed: send the contract over Slack, email, or the portal, get a flat-fee quote, and have a marked-up draft back within hours.

Our team has worked on hundreds of commercial contracts for companies of all sizes. They pair their expert judgment with AI that reads every clause so the review you get is faster and higher quality.

§ 02 — What We Handle

Contracts we handle for you

Privacy Policies

U.S.-only and GDPR-enhanced global policies, tailored to your data flows.

Cookie Notices

Consent and opt-out aligned to current state and EU rules.

AI & Data Governance

Training-data, model, and acceptable-use terms for AI features.

Data Processing Agreements (DPA)

Contracts for handling, protecting, and processing personal data.

HIPAA / BAAs

Business Associate Agreements for protected health information.

Misc / Other

Have a contract that doesn't fit a category above? Send it over and we'll scope it.

§ 03 — Your Team

Meet the attorneys who lead this practice area

Kelton Shockey

Senior Commercial Counsel

Kelton is a Senior Commercial Counsel at General Legal, where he focuses on technology transactions, data privacy, and AI governance. He brings nine years of in-house and founder-side experience: as International Regulatory and Product Counsel at Verizon, supporting product launches and enterprise transactions across 34 markets in the Americas; as a manager in Deloitte's global privacy practice, running data protection assessments across more than 150 jurisdictions; as technology policy and IP counsel at CableLabs; and as founder, CEO, and General Counsel of an NSF-funded digital health company, where he built the legal and compliance function from the ground up. Most recently he served as product counsel to a global enterprise technology company, leading its product legal team's AI matters. Admitted in Colorado, Kelton received his J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School, where he was Managing Editor of the Colorado Technology Law Journal. He is a USPTO-registered patent attorney and holds the CIPP/E credential, with the AIGP in progress, and he designs and operates production AI systems himself, which shapes how he advises the companies building with them.

Stephen Ratner

Sr. Counsel and Forward-Deployed Attorney

Stephen Ratner is a commercial, privacy, and product attorney who advises AI and SaaS companies on enterprise contracting, data use, technology transactions, and operational legal strategy. He has served as in-house counsel at leading AI-video SaaS and adtech companies, where he negotiated complex commercial and data agreements and partnered with product and technical teams on generative-AI, model-training, and privacy issues. Stephen also has product-management experience building legal-technology tools and AI-agent workflows, and previously practiced emerging-companies and venture-fund law at Gunderson Dettmer. Before law school, he served as Deputy Press Secretary to the Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice and interned at the White House.

Esther Birlin-Spake

Senior Counsel, Data Privacy

Esther focuses her practice on data privacy and AI governance, with extensive experience building privacy programs across U.S. and European jurisdictions. She studied at Freie Universität Berlin and King's College London, holds an LLM from American University, is admitted in in New York, and holds the CIPP/US, CIPP/E, and AIGP credentials.

Kris Kleiner

Senior Counsel, Data Privacy

Kris focuses his practice on data privacy and information security, and he has extensive experience advising clients across multiple industries on various data privacy and protection issues. Kris earned the Certified Information Privacy Professional for the United States (CIPP/US) credential from the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Liz Paisner

Managing Partner

Liz is a Managing Partner at General Legal. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her undergrad from Harvard College and practiced technology transactions at Cooley LLP, where she represented startups on a range of commercial contracts.

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