Speaker profile: Will Richmond-Coggan

Will Richmond-Coggan is a partner at top 50 law firm Freeths LLP, specialising exclusively in data, AI and cybersecurity law. He heads the firm’s data and cyber disputes team and is regularly instructed in large scale data breach litigation. He also supports a wide-range of clients with strategic data, AI and other cyber risk related issues. Those clients range in size from start-ups to multi-nationals, across a wide array of sectors. Will is recognised as a key lawyer in data protection, privacy and cyber-security by the latest edition of the Legal 500 directory, where he is described as “impressive in terms of legal knowledge as well as all-round practical, strategic advice”. Earlier this year The Times profiled him as their lawyer of the week for his work on a complex and high-profile data breach claim.