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Kate Santon

PRESIDENT OF SANTON GENERAL COUNSEL, P.C.

Kate helps clients build businesses and counsels them through the myriad legal issues that confront and challenge small and growing companies.  

OVERVIEW

Kate acts as outside general counsel to a variety of businesses, which involves addressing a company's day-to-day legal needs in the areas of business and entity formation, founders’ agreements, corporate compliance, contract drafting and review, risk management, negotiation and dispute resolution, employment advice and compliance, intellectual property protection, trademark and copyright protection, and privacy and cybersecurity compliance.  

Kate also provides legal services to nonprofits in the areas of formation, tax exempt status, governance and legal compliance. 

Kate founded Santon General Counsel, P.C. in 2015 after working for six years in a prominent large law firm in Orange County, California.  

SELECT PRESENTATIONS

  • Speaker, "Contemporary Trends in Arbitration," University of San Diego School of Law (2015)

  • Liabilities Arising From Contract Negotiations (2011)

  • Protecting Your Business From Privacy Claims in the Information Age (2011)

  • Ethical Issues for In-House Counsel (2010)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • International Association of Privacy Professionals - Certified Information Privacy Professional, United States (IAPP-CIPP/U.S.)

  • California State Bar Committee on Federal Courts

  • California State Bar Litigation Section's Jury Instructions Committee

  • Board of Directors, Mountain and Sea Educational Adventures, Inc.

  • Board of Directors, Life Time International, Inc.

  • Public Law Center (Silent Auction Committee, Pro Bono Cases)

ATTORNEY ARTICLES

  • President Obama Signs Needed Executive Order Bolstering Security Measures for Federal Credit Cards and Signals Increased Federal Regulation Over Data Breaches (Association of Business Trial Lawyers Report, Winter 2015)

  • Message from New York Court: Rely on CGL Policy Coverage for Data Breaches at Your Own Peril (American Bar Association Business Law Section, 2014)

  • "Antitrust Injury and Standing" in Proving Antitrust Damages, a book published by the ABA Section of Antitrust Law (Contributor)

  • Building a Savvy Privacy Program and Policy (Orange County Business Journal, 2013)

  • No Poaching Allowed: Antitrust Issues in Labor Markets (Antitrust Magazine, Summer 2012)

  • Privacy Regulations and Protecting Data During Mergers in Data-Rich Industries (Orange County Business Journal, 2011)

  • Proposed Rules of Professional Conduct: Impact on Internal Investigations by In-House Counsel (San Francisco Daily Journal, 2010)

  • Ethical Issues for In-House Counsel (2010)