Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 31, 2025

This policy describes the type of information collected by Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP (the “Firm”) when you visit our website www.wbklaw.com (our “Website“) and interact with the legal services, activities, and events we offer (our “Services”), as well as our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. By using our Website or our Services, you agree to this policy and the information practices described.

From time to time, we may change this policy. If we do, we will post an amended version on our Website. Please review this policy periodically.

  1. What information do we collect?

For purposes of this policy, “Personal Information” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. The information we collect includes the following categories:

  • Identity Information: such as first and last name, title, identity cards, government issued IDs, passports and professional or trade-related information.
  • Contact Information: such as email address, postal address and telephone number.
  • Business Contact Information: such as company name, job title, business email address, business telephone number, business postal address and country of business.
  • Technical Information: such as internet protocol (IP) address and information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and your computer, operating system and browser type.
  • Usage Information: such as email delivery status and details of your visits to our Website.
  • Marketing and Communications Information: such as your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communications preferences.
  • Financial Information: such as payment and other financial information.
  • Legal Services Information: such as information related to legal matters that you may be involved in or for which you and the Firm are considering representation. Please note that the Firm’s receipt of information about you does not create an attorney-client relationship.
  • Involved Individuals Information: such as information about employees of clients that engage us, adverse parties, and other individuals involved in a matter handled for a client.
  • Visitor and Event Information: such as issued identification passes to access premises and other details specific to a particular event or conference that you share with us.
  • Recordings: such as audio and/or video recordings of online webinars and other events, conferences and meetings provided by us.
  • Sensitive Information: Unless we request it, we ask that you do not send us, and you do not disclose to us, any sensitive Personal Information, including, but not limited to, social security numbers, biometric, health and geolocation data, on or through the Services or otherwise.

We also may collect other information which alone cannot be used to identify you as an individual. If you disclose any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

  1. How do we collect Personal Information?

Directly from you when you provide it to us.

  • In email, text, phone calls, other electronic messages and offline interactions between you and the Firm.
  • When you become a client, you may provide information to us about you and about your matter.
  • If you are a client, we may make SharePoint sites and similar data sites available to you and third parties to share information with us.
  • If you are a job applicant or vendor, we may collect Personal Information from you to facilitate that relationship and to communicate with you.
  • If you are counsel for other parties, we may collect information about you from you or third parties to facilitate communications over matters and to fulfill our obligations in our representation of our clients.

From Third Parties.

  • In working on a matter for you, we may receive, learn or infer information about you and your matter from third parties.
  • We may receive information about you from our business and event partners.
  • We may receive information about you or your employer from state and/or federal government regulators in connection with your matter.

Cookies. 

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including details of your visits to our Website, and information about your computer and internet connection.

We use cookies, web beacons and similar tracking technologies on our Website and in our emails for this automatic data collection. A cookie is a small file that is stored on your computer when you visit a website. The cookie allows websites to remember who you are when you visit the website again. Our website only uses necessary cookies required for our Website to function. These cookies cannot be deactivated. 

You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. If you use different devices or browsers, you may need to set your cookie preferences on each of those devices and browsers.

Some web browsers also may allow you to enable a do-not-track feature that alerts the websites you visit that you do not want your online activities to be tracked. Our Website may not recognize or react in response to do-not-track signals. At present, no generally accepted standards exist on how companies must respond to do-not-track signals.

  1. How do we use your information?

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

  • To present our Website and its contents to you.
  • To provide you with the Services and other information or services that you request from us.
  • To inform you about our Services, new legal and policy developments, and relevant information in the industries we serve.
  • To facilitate and participate in conferences and events, and to welcome guests and visitors to our premises.
  • For marketing purposes to send you event invitations and information we think may be of interest to you, and to fulfill your event registration.
  • To evaluate you as a candidate for employment with the Firm.
  • To manage our alumni network.
  • To aggregate and anonymize Personal Information so that it will no longer be considered Personal Information.
  • To administer, maintain and manage the Firm systems and operations, including for safety purposes.
  • To operate, maintain, secure and improve our Website.
  • To perform data analytics and benchmarking.
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts with you.
  • To exercise or defend the legal rights of the Firm and its employees, affiliates, clients, contractors, and agents.
  • To notify you about changes to our Website.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it, any other purpose with your consent, or as otherwise required or permitted by law.
  1. How do we share your information?

We may disclose Personal Information that we collect or you provide to third parties as follows:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support the Firm, such as providers of data hosting or processing services, email services, payment processing, and security and fraud prevention services.
  • To third parties as part of performing Services in a matter, subject to the applicable rules of professional responsibility, confidentiality and privilege.
  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Firm’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding.
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it, for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information or with your consent.
  • To fulfill our legal and compliance-related obligations, including complying with applicable laws and legal processes (including laws outside your country of residence), responding to requests from government authorities, meeting national security or law enforcement requirements, and compliance with requirements set by industry-specific supervisory bodies, such as bar associations.
  • To enforce or apply our rights arising from any contracts.
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Firm, our clients, property or the public.

We do not sell your Personal Information to third parties, and we do not share your Personal Information with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.

  1. What rights and choices do I have about my information?

You may choose not to provide Personal Information. If you choose not to provide Personal Information (or ask us to delete it), we may not be able to provide you with our Services or certain functionality of our Website. You may instruct us not to use your contact information to contact you by email by following the instructions located at the bottom of any commercial emails you may receive or by emailing us as set forth below. Please note that, regardless of your request, we may still use and share certain information as permitted by applicable law. For example, you may not opt out of certain operational or transactional emails, such as those reflecting our relationship or transactions with you, or important notifications regarding the Services we are providing to you.

  1. Notice to California Residents.

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires us to provide California residents with a privacy policy that contains a comprehensive description of our online and offline practices regarding our collection, use, sale, sharing and retention of their personal information, along with a description of the rights they have regarding their personal information. This section of our Privacy Policy provides the information the CCPA requires, together with other useful information regarding our collection and use of personal information. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this policy.

The CCPA defines “personal information” to mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular California resident or household. Personal information does not include publicly available, deidentified or aggregated information or lawfully obtained, truthful information that is a matter of public concern. For purposes of this Notice to California Residents section, we will refer to this information as “Personal Information.”

Collection and Use of Personal Information

We currently collect and, in the past 12 months, have collected the following categories of Personal Information:

  • Identifiers: real name, alias, postal address, online identifier, IP address, email address or other similar identifiers.
  • Personal information described in California’s Customer Records statute (California Civil Code § 1798.80(e)): name, signature, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, membership in professional organizations, professional licenses and certifications, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number or any other financial information.
  • Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law: age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, reproductive health decisionmaking, military and veteran status, or genetic information (including familial genetic information).
  • Internet or other electronic network activity information: activity on our Website, such as system usage and electronic communications with us.
  • Geolocation data: time and physical location related to use of our Website.
  • Sensory data: audio, electronic, visual, or similar information.
  • Professional or employment-related information: current or past job history.

We collect Personal Information from California residents and from our clients through forms or other information provided directly to us; indirectly through interactions with our Website; from our service providers, business partners and marketing partners; and from public records or government entities. We do not collect all categories of Personal Information from each source.

In addition to the purposes stated above in the section How do we use your information?, we currently collect and, in the past 12 months, have collected the above categories of Personal Information for the following business or commercial purposes:

  • Improve our services, client relationships and experiences.
  • Protect the Firm, employees, or operations.
  • Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality of our Website.

Sale, Sharing, and Disclosure of Personal Information

We do not sell and, in the past 12 months, have not sold your Personal Information to third parties. We do not share, and in the past 12 months, have not shared your Personal Information with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.

The chart below identifies the categories of entities to whom we have disclosed Personal Information for a business purpose over the past 12 months, along with the personal information categories disclosed.

Category of Personal Information

Categories of Recipients

Identifiers (real name, alias, postal address, online identifier, IP address, email address or other similar identifiers)

Law enforcement/legal requests, website service providers, event service providers, email service providers

Personal information described in California’s Customer Records statute (California Civil Code § 1798.80(e)) (name, signature, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, membership in professional organizations, professional licenses and certifications, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information)

Law enforcement/legal requests

Personal information described in California’s Customer Records statute (California Civil Code § 1798.80(e)) (bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information)

Payment processors, billing platform providers


We use sensitive Personal Information only for purposes permitted by the CCPA and its regulations.

Your Rights and Choices

If you are a California resident, the CCPA grants you the following rights regarding your personal information:

  • Right to Know and Data Portability Requests: You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your Personal Information (the “right to know“), including the specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you. Our response will cover the 12-month period preceding the request, although we will honor requests to cover a longer period that do not extend past January 1, 2022, unless doing so would be impossible or involves disproportionate effort. Once we receive your request and confirm your identity (see How to Exercise Your Rights below), we will disclose to you:
  • The categories of: (i) Personal Information we collected about you; and (ii) sources from which we collected your Personal Information.

  • The business or commercial purpose for collecting your Personal Information and, if applicable, selling or sharing your Personal Information.
  • If applicable, the categories of persons, including third parties, to whom we disclosed your Personal Information, including separate disclosures identifying the categories of your Personal Information that we: (i) disclosed for a business purpose to each category of persons; and (ii) sold or shared to each category of third parties.

  • A copy of your Personal Information, subject to any permitted redactions, if you request your Personal Information in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format (the “right to data portability”).

  • Right to Delete and Right to Correct: You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions and limitations (the “right to delete“). Once we receive your request and confirm your identity, we will delete your Personal Information from our systems unless an exception allows us to retain it. We will also notify our service providers, contractors, and other recipients to take appropriate action. You also have the right to request correction of Personal Information we maintain about you that you believe is inaccurate (the “right to correct“). We may require you to provide documentation, if needed, to confirm your identity and support your claim that the information is inaccurate. Unless an exception applies, we will correct Personal Information that our review determines is inaccurate and notify our service providers, contractors, and other recipients to take appropriate action.

  • Right to Limit Sensitive Personal Information Use and Disclosure to Permitted SPI Purposes: You have a right to ask businesses that use or disclose your sensitive Personal Information to limit those actions to those purposes permitted by the CCPA and its regulations (the “right to limit“). As we do not use or disclose sensitive Personal Information beyond these purposes, we do not currently provide this consumer right.
  • Personal Information Sales or Sharing Opt-Out Rights: You have the right to request that businesses stop selling or sharing your Personal Information at any time (the “right to opt-out“), including through a user-enabled opt-out preference signal. As we do not sell or share consumers’ Personal Information, we do not currently provide these consumer rights.

  • Right to Non-Discrimination: You have the right not to be discriminated or retaliated against for exercising any of your privacy rights under the CCPA.

How to Exercise Your Rights

You can submit a request to exercise one or more of your data subject rights stated above using the following methods:

After we receive your request, we will determine if the request is a verifiable customer request before acting on the request. You must provide enough information for us to be able to verify that the proper person is making the request. We have 45 days in which to take action on your request. If we run into issues in honoring your request, we will notify you within those 45 days. The original 45-day period may be extended by 45 days if reasonably necessary. We will inform you, without delay, of the reasons, if we decide not to take action on your request.

If you use an authorized agent to submit a request and the authorized agent does not provide a proper power of attorney, we may require you to either (1) verify your identity directly with us, or (2) directly confirm with us that you provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request.

  1. Notice to European Residents

Our Website and Services are hosted in and provided from the United States, and your use of our Website and Services is governed by United States law. If you are using our Website or Services from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States where our systems and facilities, and those of our third-party providers and recipients of information, are located. By using our Website and Services, you consent to your information being transferred to our systems and facilities, and to the systems and facilities of those third parties to whom we disclose information as described in this policy.

If you are located in the European Union, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you may be entitled to exercise the rights set forth above in the section Your Rights and Choices. See the section above titled How to Exercise Your Rights for information on submitting a privacy rights request. You can also lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in your country.

The legal bases for our use of your personal information are as follows:

  • Where use of your information is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under our agreements with you, such as to provide requested Services;
  • Where use of your information is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation, such as reporting criminal or fraudulent activity or for complying with tax, employment, or other applicable laws;
  • Where use of your information is necessary for the exercise or defense of legal claims, such as if you bring a claim against us or we bring a claim against you;
  • Where use of your information is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of others, such as, for example, to secure, update, and improve our Website and Services; to communicate with you and respond to your requests and inquiries; to monitor and prevent any problems with our Services; to personalize your experience with our Website or Services; for fraud prevention; and to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims; or
  • Where we have your consent, in accordance with applicable law, such as, for example before we send you marketing messages.
  1. Security and Retention of Your Personal Information.

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures commensurate with the sensitivity of the Personal Information in our possession to protect Personal Information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us using the contact information set forth below.

We retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collect it, such as to provide you with the service you have requested, and for the purpose of satisfying any legal, accounting, contractual, or reporting requirements that apply to us. To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your information, the purposes for which we process your information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

  1. Third-Party Sites

Our Website may provide links to third-party sites that are outside our control and not covered by this policy. This policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties. The use of an external website or any information or other content found on an external website is subject to and governed by the terms and conditions of such website. We encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on such third-party sites.

  1. Children Under the Age of 18.

Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 18. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us as indicated in this policy.

  1. Changes to Our Privacy Policy.

The “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy indicates when this policy was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on this page. 

  1. Contacting Us.

If you have questions about this policy, please email us at privacy@wbklaw.com or contact:

Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP

1800 M Street, NW, Suite 800N

Washington, DC 20036

771-203-5995