John Hutchins’ practice is a combination of commercial litigation and trial work, compliance advice and counseling, and technology transactions. His 23 years of litigation experience runs the gamut in subject matter, from data breaches, to eminent domain, to vintage race cars, to death penalty habeas corpus, but he has particular experience in matters involving intellectual property, privacy and data security, information technology, government procurement, restrictive covenants and breach of fiduciary duty.

As lead counsel he has tried numerous cases to jury verdict, as well as bench trials, arbitrations and other evidentiary hearings in state and federal courts.

His compliance practice focuses on state, federal and international privacy and data security issues, the Internet, e-commerce, cloud computing, social media, and records management. He leads LeClairRyan’s Privacy & Data Security Team and is the Editor of the firm’s blog – Information Counts. His transactional practice consists of a mix of complex technology transactions, including sourcing deals, hosted services arrangements, cloud computing, technology licensing, systems procurement and project implementation.