Amy Keller has held leadership positions in a variety of complex litigations across the nation, where she successfully litigated high-profile and costly data security and consumer privacy cases. As the Managing Partner of the firm’s Chicago office and the Privacy, Technology, and Cybersecurity practice chair, she is the youngest woman ever appointed to serve as co-lead class counsel in a nationwide class action. In the multidistrict litigation against Equifax related to its 2017 data breach, Amy represented nearly 150 million class members and helped to secure a $1.5 billion settlement, working alongside federal and state regulators to impose important security practice changes to protect consumer data.
Amy has represented consumers against industry titans like Apple, Marriott, Electrolux, and BMW, securing victories against each. She has been appointed to leadership positions in more multidistrict litigations than any other woman in the past eight years, each case requiring sophistication in not only understanding complex legal theories, but also in presenting multifaceted strategies and damages modeling to ensure favorable results. For example, in leading a nationwide class action related to a data breach that exposed the confidential information of over 300 million individuals, Amy worked with her team to develop an argument recognized by the trial court that the loss of someone’s personal information, alone, could trigger financial liability, and later secured a rare victory, certifying that case to proceed as a class action to trial. In another matter, Amy defended her team’s victory all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, ensuring that consumers would be able to band together as a class when a company defrauds them for small amounts individually that are worth millions of dollars in the aggregate.
Amy is rated by Chambers & Partners for her work in cybersecurity litigation and is an elected member of the American Law Institute. She serves on the Steering Committee of the Sedona Conference’s Working Group 11, which focuses on advancing the law on issues surrounding technology, privacy, artificial intelligence, and data security, and she is also on drafting teams for both Model Data Breach Notification Principles and Statutory Remedies and the California Consumer Privacy Act. Her work in cybersecurity and privacy has been recognized many times over—in both 2021 and 2022, she was honored as one of Benchmark Litigation’s Top 250 Women in Litigation; in 2020 and 2021, she was named by The National Law Journal as one of the Elite Women of the Plaintiffs Bar; and the practice group which she chairs has won Practice Group of the Year in 2020, 2021, and 2022 by Law360 and in 2020 by The National Law Journal. Amy is also recognized by Illinois Super Lawyers as a Rising Star and was named a “trailblazer” by The National Law Journal. In 2022, Amy was named to the “40 Under 40” list by Crain’s Chicago Business for her leadership in litigation roles and promoting diversity and inclusivity in the bar.
Amy proudly holds leadership positions in both the American Association for Justice and the Public Justice Foundation, organizations which both focus on access to the courts for civil litigants.
Updated Sep 2024
