Legal Notices

Last updated: January 23, 2026

Important: read before proceeding. The following notices refer to McGuireWoods Consulting LLC as “McGuireWoods Consulting.” These notices, along with our Privacy Statement and Cookies Policy, provide information you need to know regarding the use of our website and how we collect and process your personal information. It is your responsibility to familiarize yourself with them. By using the McGuireWoods Consulting website you agree to be bound by the provisions included in the:

Terms of Use set forth below, which describe the general nature of the information provided on the McGuireWoods Consulting website, set out legal disclaimers about past results, and disclose information and additional disclaimers required by certain jurisdictions where we have offices;
Privacy Statement, which describes, among other things, the personal data we collect, how personal data is collected, how we protect your personal data, how we use the personal data collected, and the sharing and transfer of personal data;.
Cookie Policy, which describes our use of Cookies and provides additional information regarding your control over Cookies; and
Copyright Notice, which applies to the entire website.

If you have questions about our Terms of Use, Privacy Statement, Cookies Policy or Copyright Notice, please contact us at info@mwcllc.com or write us at: McGuireWoods Consulting , Gateway Plaza, 800 East Canal Street, Richmond, VA 23219-3916; Attention: General Counsel.

Terms of Use

Take special note of the following Terms of Use, particularly the disclaimers.

By accessing or using this website, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. These Terms of Use affect your legal rights and obligations. If you do not agree to be bound by all of these Terms of Use, do not access or use this website.

The McGuireWoods Consulting website provides information of general interest to the public. The website does not offer legal advice about specific situations or problems. You should consult a lawyer if you have legal issues requiring attention. Nothing on this site creates an express or implied contract. Unless and until we and you agree that we will represent you, we will not have any duties to you, including any duty to keep what you send us confidential or any duty to protect your interests. This means that nothing you send us will be kept confidential, unless we mutually agree that we will keep it confidential.

Past successes described on this website are not indicators of future results. The outcome of particular matters is dependent upon the facts applicable to the matters.

McGuireWoods Consulting is a Virginia limited liability company and operates globally as a limited liability company with offices in the United States. Our parent firm also has an affiliate in the United Kingdom, McGuireWoods London LLP. The personal liability of our partners is limited to the extent allowed by applicable professional rules, regulations and statutory law.

Additional information certain jurisdictions require McGuireWoods to disclose is provided below by office.

California – This website is a communication providing public information about the availability of McGuireWoods Consulting LLC for professional employment. You may have certain rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). For more information, please see our Privacy Statement.

Privacy, Data Protection and Security

Our Privacy Statement describes how we collect, use and safeguard information we obtain from you. Please read it carefully, as it governs our use of the information you provide to us and identifies who you can contact at McGuireWoods Consulting if you have questions, requests or concerns related to privacy or data protection matters.

Transmission Errors or Unauthorized Acts

While we strive to protect your personal information, no data transmission is 100 percent secure. Because McGuireWoods Consulting cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or any information provided online, you do so at your own risk. McGuireWoods Consulting will not be liable for disclosures of your personal information due to errors in transmission or unauthorized acts of third parties.

How to Contact Us

If you have questions about our information practices, contact us at info@mwcllc.com or write us at McGuireWoods Consulting, Gateway Plaza, 800 East Canal Street, Richmond, VA 23219-3916; Attention: General Counsel.

Copyright

Privacy Statement

Last Updated: January 23, 2026

This Privacy Statement describes how we process your personal data as a Data Controller in the course of our operations. It also describes certain privacy rights and data protection laws that may apply to you. It is important that you read this Privacy Statement together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This Privacy Statement supplements other, more targeted notices and is not intended to override them.

When we collect and otherwise process your personal data on behalf of our client, we are acting as a Service Provider under the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) and a Processor under EU data protection laws or other US state comprehensive privacy laws (as applicable). We process and retain your personal data in accordance with the data processing agreement in place with our client. Our agreements with our clients prohibit us from using that information, except as necessary to provide our services to our client or to comply with applicable law.

Where we process your personal data in our capacity as a Processor/Service Provider, and you seek to submit a privacy rights request, we will provide your request to our client (or the ultimate data controller), or you can contact them directly and we will cooperate with the client to facilitate your request.

Contents

Who we are
What personal data do we collect from you?
Why do we collect personal data from you?
How long do we keep your data?
Disclosing your personal data
What rights do I have in relation to my personal data?
What are my rights as a California resident under CCPA?
How do you protect my personal data?
What if I do not want to provide my personal data?
Amendments to this Privacy Statement

Who We Are

McGuireWoods Consulting LLC is a national public affairs firm, a wholly-owned subsidiary of McGuireWoods LLP, an international law firm. This Privacy Statement refers to McGuireWoods Consulting LLC as “McGuireWoods Consulting,” “we” or “us.” For further details concerning the structure and offices of McGuireWoods Consulting, please view our Legal Notices on our website.

If you have questions about this Privacy Statement or other data protection matters concerning McGuireWoods Consulting, you can contact us at info@mwcllc.com. Additional contact information for McGuireWoods Consulting is provided below.

Data Controllers

For the purposes of data protection under the General Data Protection Regulation and any applicable national implementing laws, regulations, secondary or other legislation (collectively, the GDPR), the legal entities overseeing the processing of your personal data are McGuireWoods Consulting LLC and McGuireWoods LLP. To clarify the essence of the arrangement by which McGuireWoods collects and processes personal data, both legal entities are considered data controllers in their own right. On occasion, for certain processing activities, one of the entities may act as a data processor for the other. There may also be processing activities for which we would be considered joint data controllers in that we may jointly determine the purposes and means by which your personal data is processed by us.

Data Protection Officers

McGuireWoods Consulting LLC and McGuireWoods LLP’s privacy officer in the United States is Stephen Allred, who can be contacted at PrivacyUS@mcguirewoods.com, or by mail at McGuireWoods LLP, Gateway Plaza, 800 East Canal Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219-3916. For purposes of the GDPR, McGuireWoods LLP, in its capacity as a controller of processing activities that are subject to the GDPR, has appointed McGuireWoods London LLP to be its representative within the European Union. Its contact details are email: dpo@mcguirewoods.com, phone: +44 20 7632 1600.

McGuireWoods London LLP appoints the following individual as its data protection officer:

Mehboob Dossa
McGuireWoods London LLP
6 New Street Square
London EC4A 3BF
United Kingdom
PrivacyUK@mcguirewoods.com

Clients, prospects, candidates, providers and other individuals in the EU (or whose personal data is otherwise subject to the GDPR) should contact the data protection officer for the controller with whom they have actively engaged. If you have privacy or data protection questions in connection with the website, please contact us.

What Personal Data Do We Collect From You?

McGuireWoods Consulting only processes personal data for the purposes disclosed in the Privacy Policy, or reasonably necessary or compatible with the disclosed purpose in the Privacy Policy. The type of personal data we collect will depend upon the nature of your relationship with us (e.g., whether you are a client, prospect, candidate, provider, or visitor to our website, event, or office), the purpose for which the data is required, and our legal and regulatory obligations.

The categories of personal data we may collect from clients, prospects, job candidates, providers, and visitors to our website, offices and firm events are described under “More Information,” below. We collect this information in connection with services we provide to clients, from our firm website and blogs, software that we use to register you for events, and software we maintain for marketing our services. We may also collect this information from you when you visit our offices or attend events.

Types of Data Collected

Clients

As a client of ours, the information we collect from you may include the following:

Personal identifiers (contact details, including names, postal addresses, email addresses, and telephone numbers);
Sensitive personal information:
- a copy of your driver’s license or other suitable documentation to identify you;
- information pertaining to your matters with which we are assisting you;
- your bank account details should we need to transfer funds to you;
- health-related information (such as dietary requirements, disability access, medical conditions, etc.) in connection with your participation at our events and activities; and
- information as required by regulatory “know your client,” anti-money laundering, or “proceeds of crime” legislation — some of this information we may request or obtain from third-party sources;
Professional or employment-related information (job titles, previous roles, and professional experience and qualifications); and
Your attendance at firm events and activities.

Prospects

As a prospective client or other business prospect for McGuireWoods Consulting, the information we collect from you may include the following:

Personal identifiers (contact details, including names, postal addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers);
Professional or employment-related information such as job titles, previous roles, and professional experience and qualifications;
Your attendance at firm events and activities; and
Sensitive personal information (health-related information (such as dietary requirements, disability access, medical conditions, etc.) in connection with your participation at our events and activities; and information as required by regulatory “know your client,” anti-money laundering, or “proceeds of crime” legislation. Some of this information we may request and/or obtain from third-party sources).

Third Parties

In connection with the provision of our services, we collect and process different personal data depending on the services being provided, the individuals involved in each of our client matters, and the third parties with whom we communicate, obtain data from, or otherwise deal with in connection with the services we provide to our clients.

Job Candidates

As a job candidate looking to join McGuireWoods, the information we collect from you may include the following:

Personal identifiers (contact details, including names, postal addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers);
Protected classifications and sensitive information:
- your racial or ethnic origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious or similar beliefs in order to undertake equal opportunity monitoring and reporting in the public interest);
- information regarding your criminal and disciplinary records (if any), including from background checking authorities, agencies and any regulators, to carry out our legal and regulatory obligations;
- information from credit reports and the like to the extent permitted by law;
- your nationality and immigration status and information from related documents, such as your passport or other identification and immigration information; and
- a copy of your driver’s license or other suitable documentation to identify you and verify your identity;
Professional or employment-related information (details of your references, including names, mailing addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers);
Education information:
- information about your previous academic and/or employment history, including job titles, previous roles, and professional experience and qualifications, as well as details of any conduct, grievance or performance issues, appraisals, time and attendance, from references obtained about you from previous employers and/or education providers; and
- information regarding your academic and professional qualifications; and
Information we may request and/or obtain from third-party sources, such as from disciplinary records, recruiters, social media, or your references.

Providers

From providers of goods and services to McGuireWoods Consulting, we collect limited information that could be considered personal data. The information we collect from you may include the following:

Personal identifiers (your name and contact details, like address, home and mobile phone numbers, email address); and
Financial account information (your bank account details should we need to transfer funds to you).

Visitors to the Website

As a visitor to our main internet site, www.mwcllc.com, or any other website or web address operated by or on behalf of McGuireWoods Consulting that links to this Privacy Statement (the website), we collect information that you submit to us when you interact with features of the site such as subscribing to news alerts, completing a form, or signing up to attend firm-sponsored events. When you do this we collect:

Personal identifiers (your name and contact details (i.e., address, home and mobile phone numbers, email address)); and
Professional or employment-related information (role, employer).

In addition to collecting information you provide, our website automatically collects the following information for purposes of analytics and marketing:

Your internet protocol (IP) address; your login data, browser type and version; time zone setting and location; browser plug-in types and versions; operating system and platform; and other technology on the devices you use to access the website.
We use Google Analytics to ensure website functionality and improve our website and services. This software may record information such as your IP address, location, age and gender, browser type and language, operating system, access time, duration of visit, pages you view within our website, search terms you enter and other actions you take while visiting us, the pages you view immediately before and after you access the services, how often you use our Services, aggregated usage and performance data, app errors and debugging information. Google Analytics is owned and controlled by Google LLC. Data collected by Google is subject to its privacy policy. To learn how Google uses data related to website analytics, please click here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You may opt-out of having your activity on our website made available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics browser add-on, available here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Such disclosure of personal information may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” under the CCPA. California residents may opt-out of the sale/sharing by visiting Do Not Sell or Share My personal data.
We use Meta Pixel to customize our advertising and to serve you ads on your social media based on your browsing behavior. This allows your behavior on our website to be tracked. Meta stores cookies on your device to enable us to measure the effectiveness of Meta ads for statistical and market research purposes. We do not have access to the information collected through Meta’s cookies. However, the information collected via Meta, on the Website as well as other websites on which Meta’s cookies are installed, is also stored and processed by Meta. Meta may link this information to your Meta account and also use it for its own promotional purposes in accordance with Meta’s Data Usage Policy. The Meta cookies also allow Meta and its partners to show you advertisements on and outside of Meta. This may be deemed a sale or sharing under state data privacy laws. To opt-out of this sale or sharing and the processing of personal information for purposes of targeted advertising, visit your Facebook Advertisement Preferences, and you can clear and control the information third parties share with Meta in your Off-Facebook Activity page. If you do not have a Meta account, you can opt-out of Facebook ads through the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) and its AdChoices program. California residents may opt-out of the sale/sharing by visiting Do Not Sell or Share My personal data.
We use the LinkedIn Insight Tag, which enables the collection of data regarding your visits to our Website, including the URL, referrer, IP address, device and browser characteristics (User Agent), and timestamp. The IP addresses are truncated or hashed (when used for reaching members across devices), and LinkedIn members’ direct identifiers are removed within seven days in order to make the data pseudonymous. This remaining pseudonymized data is then deleted within 180 days. The information collected through the Insight Tag is used to improve reporting on campaign performance. You are not able to opt out of ads on LinkedIn, but you can visit LinkedIn Advertising Preferences to choose how data is used. The use of this information for analytics and advertising purposes may be considered a sale or sharing under state data privacy laws. California residents may opt-out of the sale/sharing by visiting Do Not Sell or Share My personal data.

A complete list of cookies and more information about each cookie can be found within our Cookies Policy.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children via the website.

Visitors to Our Offices or Events

As a visitor to a McGuireWoods office or attendee of an event, we may capture the following information about you:

Personal identifiers (contact details (including names, postal addresses;
health-related information (such as dietary requirements, disability access, medical conditions, etc.) in connection with your participation in our events and activities;
email addresses and telephone numbers)); and
Visual information (images captured by our offices’ CCTV cameras).

Why Do We Collect Personal Data From You?

McGuireWoods Consulting collects and processes your personal data in connection with its business as a provider of consulting services and to pursue our related legitimate interests and rights, including the promotion and marketing of our services. We collect this data in order to keep track of clients and prospective clients, and share relevant content, including to market the firm’s capabilities, provide invitations to relevant events and registration for those events, and distribute relevant content.

We collect personal data from the following sources:

Clients, including personal data of employees and other agents of our clients;

Prospects, including prospective clients and individuals to whom we promote or market our services;
Third parties, including providers of services and other individuals as a result of providing our services to our clients;
Job candidates, including prospective employees or other workers in connection with job applications and prospective partners in connection with consideration for partnership;
Providers, including vendors, suppliers, consultants, advisers and business partners;
Attendees of event;
Conference organizers and co-sponsors;
Visitors to our website; and
Visitors to our offices.

The personal data we collect is processed in compliance with relevant data protection laws and regulations. For California-specific guidance, please click here.

Purpose and Legal Basis for Processing

When processing your personal data, the purpose and legal basis include the following, to the extent that they apply to you:

To perform client services to fulfill our contractual obligations toward you, on the basis of our legitimate interests or our clients’ legitimate interests, and to provide the best client service we can;
To support our business processes (including our information technology, electronic communications and electronic documents storage, management and transmissions), to fulfill our contractual obligations toward you, or, if not applicable, on the basis of our legitimate interests to provide the best client service we can, to support our business operations, administration, IT services, and network security, and to prevent fraud;
To safeguard your personal data and our IT system with appropriate security, on the basis of your and our legitimate interest for such security;
To exchange information, conduct due diligence, answer your questions, take steps required to enter into a contract with you, or for the purposes of our legitimate interests to protect our legal rights and a third party’s rights, or, on the basis of your consent;
For our recruitment purposes, including in the context of a selection and recruitment procedure, to take steps prior to entering into an employment relationship or contract with you or on the basis that it is our legitimate interest to use your personal data in such a way to ensure that we can make the best recruitment decisions — we will not process any special categories of personal data except where we are able to do so under applicable legislation or with your explicit consent;
To keep you up to date with McGuireWoods Consulting events, activities and news that may be of interest to you, on the basis of your consent, or for our legitimate interests to use your personal data for marketing purposes;
To present the website and its content in the best possible way for you and on your computer, on the basis of our legitimate interests to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our outreach and business operations, and to develop marketing strategy;
For business transactions such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets on the basis of our legitimate interests to sell or expand our business operations; and/or
To comply with legal and regulatory requirements applicable to us (including the need to prevent and combat money laundering).

Where the processing of your personal data is based on your consent only, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any time. We will then erase your personal data and stop processing it so long as we are not prohibited from doing so by applicable law.

Marketing

You may receive marketing communications from us if you are an existing client, if you provided us with your consent, or where we are pursuing a legitimate interest and have a lawful right to do so and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing communication. You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the unsubscribe links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting info@mwcllc.com at any time.

How Long Do We Keep Your Data?

Your personal data is kept for the time required to pursue the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy, including for the purpose of satisfying any applicable legal, professional, contractual, regulatory, accounting or reporting requirements unless you have requested deletion and we have honored that request.

If you request that we stop sending you marketing materials, we will continue to keep a record of your contact details and appropriate information to enable us to comply with your request not to be contacted by us.

California residents have special rights with respect to our retention of personal information. These are described here.

We will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, legitimate administrative or operational purposes, and any reporting requirements. In determining data retention periods, we take into consideration local laws, contractual obligations, our professional duties to our clients, our reasonable business requirements, and your expectations and requirements.

When it is no longer necessary to retain your personal data, we will securely delete or, in some circumstances, anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further statement to you. Any such anonymization would be performed in accordance with, and where allowed by, applicable law.

Disclosing Your Personal Data

This website is hosted in the United States. Personal data that is voluntarily provided on or via this website or online, via electronic communication, or otherwise to McGuireWoods Consulting, may be maintained or accessed in servers or files located in the United States.

To provide legal services and effectively run our business, we may need to disclose your personal data as permitted by law. Transfer of personal data may occur internally between McGuireWoods Consulting and/or McGuireWoods LLP offices, to our providers as necessary to provide our services, or to public and regulatory bodies in the event we are required to do so. These transfers may involve international transfer of your personal data to our McGuireWoods LLP offices (including our offices located outside the European Economic Area (EEA)) and data centers or those of our providers or public and regulatory bodies.

We may, however, disclose your personal information with service providers or third parties in accordance with the business purposes set out in this Privacy Statement. At this time, the firm’s website does not have the ability to respond to “Do Not Track” signals sent by individual users’ web browsers.

Disclosure of Personal Data to Service Providers

We disclose and have disclosed in the preceding 12 months personal data to our service providers and contractors for the following purposes.

Auditing of Ad Impression: We disclose personal data for auditing purposes to our marketing service providers related to counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance with this specification and other standards.
Security and Fraud Detection: We disclose personal data to our IT service providers for our security and fraud detection services including detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; and prosecuting those responsible for that activity.
Functionality & Debugging: We disclose personal data to our IT service providers to engage in debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
Short-Term / Transient Use: We disclose personal data for short-term, transient use to our affiliates, marketing, analytics, and IT service providers, including, but not limited to, non-personalized advertising shown as part of a consumer’s current interaction with the business, provided that the consumer’s personal data is not disclosed to another third party and is not used to build a profile about the consumer or otherwise alter the consumer’s experience outside the current interaction with the business.
Services on Our Behalf: We disclose personal data in order to receive services performed on our behalf, including service providers maintaining or servicing accounts, providing client service, verifying client information, processing payments, providing financing, providing analytic services, providing storage, or providing similar services on our behalf.
Advertising and Marketing Services: We disclose personal data marketing services providers to provide advertising or marketing services on our own behalf.
Research & Development: We disclose personal data to our affiliates and analytics service providers for internal research related to technological development and demonstration.
Quality Control & Improvement of Products and Services: We disclose personal data to our affiliates, IT, and analytics service providers to verify, maintain, and improve our products and services.

The following chart sets forth the categories of personal data we have disclosed to our service providers for a business purpose over the past 12 months. Please note that we may not have disclosed all the information referenced herein regarding you to our service providers and/or may not have disclosed all information regarding you to our service providers for all purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Categories of personal data	Business or Commercial Purposes
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal Identifiers	Auditing of Ad Impression Security and Fraud Detection Functionality & Debugging Services on Our Behalf Advertising and Marketing Services Quality Control & Improvement of Products and Services
Protected Characteristics	Auditing of Ad Impression Security and Fraud Detection Functionality & Debugging Services on Our Behalf Advertising and Marketing Services Quality Control & Improvement of Products and Services
Commercial Information	Services on Our Behalf
Internet Information	Auditing of Ad Impression Security and Fraud Detection Functionality & Debugging Services on Our Behalf Advertising and Marketing Services Quality Control & Improvement of Products and Services
Geolocation Data	Auditing of Ad Impression Security and Fraud Detection Functionality & Debugging Services on Our Behalf Advertising and Marketing Services Quality Control & Improvement of Products and Services
Professional or Employment-Information	Services on Our Behalf
Education Information	Services on Our Behalf

As Necessary Disclosures

We may also use and/or disclose personal data, as necessary: (a) to comply with any law, regulation and/or legal process and/or exercise or defend legal claims; (b) to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (c) to enforce our terms and conditions; (d) to protect our operations and protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others; and € to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain. We may also use and disclose your personal data in connection with or during negotiation of any reorganization, acquisition, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings). You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of or successor to us may continue to use your personal data as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Selling and Sharing (for Targeted Advertisement) of personal data

We do not sell your personal data as that term is commonly understood to be disclosure of your personal data in exchange for money. Rather, as used herein, definition of sale includes situations where another company can use your personal data for its own purposes. Please see the Cookies section above.

We may also share with others certain personal data we have collected from you for cross-context behavioral advertising (targeted advertising).

Notwithstanding the contrary, we will not sell your Sensitive personal data if you are a Maryland resident. Also, if you are a Maryland resident who we know or should know is under 18 years of age, we will not process or sell your personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising.

The chart below shows the categories of personal data we sell (as defined herein) or share for cross-context behavioral advertising (targeted advertising) or that we have sold or shared in the past 12 months, the categories of third parties to whom we have sold or shared personal data and the purpose for the sale or sharing of the personal data.

Categories of personal data

Categories of Third Parties

Names of Third Parties

Business or Commercial Purposes

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal Identifiers

Our affiliate entities

Social media companies

Third party advertising partners

Third parties for marketing purposes

Data analytics providers

Service providers

McGuireWoods LLP

Meta Platforms, Inc.

LinkedIn Corporation

Alphabet Inc.

Auditing of Ad Impression

Security and Fraud Detection

Functionality & Debugging

Services on Our Behalf

Advertising and Marketing Services

Quality Control & Improvement of Products and Services

Protected Characteristics

Our affiliate entities

Social media companies

Third party advertising partners

Third parties for marketing purposes

Data analytics providers

Service providers

McGuireWoods LLP

Meta Platforms, Inc.

LinkedIn Corporation

Alphabet Inc.

Auditing of Ad Impression

Security and Fraud Detection

Functionality & Debugging

Services on Our Behalf

Advertising and Marketing Services

Quality Control & Improvement of Products and Services

Commercial Information

Our affiliate entities

Service providers

McGuireWoods LLP

State, local, and federal officials and agencies

Services on Our Behalf

Internet Information

Our affiliate entities

Social media companies

Third party advertising partners

Third parties for marketing purposes

Data analytics providers

Service providers

McGuireWoods LLP

Meta Platforms, Inc.

LinkedIn Corporation

Alphabet Inc.

Auditing of Ad Impression

Security and Fraud Detection

Functionality & Debugging

Services on Our Behalf

Advertising and Marketing Services

Quality Control & Improvement of Products and Services

Geolocation Data

Our affiliate entities

Social media companies

Third party advertising partners

Third parties for marketing purposes

Data analytics providers

Service providers

McGuireWoods LLP

Meta Platforms, Inc.

LinkedIn Corporation

Alphabet Inc.

Auditing of Ad Impression

Security and Fraud Detection

Functionality & Debugging

Services on Our Behalf

Advertising and Marketing Services

Quality Control & Improvement of Products and Services

Professional or Employment-Information

Our affiliate entities

Service providers

McGuireWoods LLP

State, local, and federal officials and agencies

Services on Our Behalf

Education Information

Our affiliate entities

Service providers

McGuireWoods LLP

State, local, and federal officials and agencies

Services on Our Behalf

As noted above, we use third party cookies.

Under various US privacy laws, the disclosure of data to third-party advertising and social media partners may be considered a sale of personal data. To opt-out of such disclosure, select Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information.

We do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal data of consumers under 16 years of age.

International Transfer of Your Personal Data

Subject to the terms of any engagement agreement or other agreement that we have with you, we allow McGuireWoods Consulting’s offices, branches and associated firms, to access your personal data, and may allow access to your personal data, or parts of it, to our service providers required to obtain the services we need to operate our business or to provide legal services to our clients.

McGuireWoods Consulting, McGuireWoods LLP (based in the United States), and McGuireWoods London LLP share infrastructure, personnel and providers of services in connection with the services we provide and marketing activities that we undertake. McGuireWoods Consulting also provides client and support services to McGuireWoods LLP, McGuireWoods London LLP, and other offices located outside the EEA. As a result, McGuireWoods LLP and its offices in the United States may receive and have access to your personal data.

Many of our third-party service providers are based outside the EEA so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of your personal data outside the EEA.

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, where required by law, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission.
Where we use certain providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission, which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.

Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanisms we use when transferring your relevant personal data out of the EEA.

What Rights Do I Have in Relation to My Personal Data?

Depending on the facts and circumstances related to the personal data we collect or obtain about you — including, for example, the nature of the information we process, where you are located or reside, or whether we obtain the information in connection with legal services we provide to our clients — you may have rights regarding the personal data we hold about you afforded under relevant data protection laws. These may include the right to request information about, or access to, the personal data we hold, and rights to complain about how we handle your personal data. McGuireWoods Consulting is committed to honoring rights you have been afforded under data protection laws while ensuring that such rights are exercised in accordance with our other legal and ethical obligations. At that point if you believe our decision related to your request was in error, you may have the right to submit an appeal using the method(s) above. If the result is the same, you can also seek assistance and/or redress from your state attorney general.

California residents have special rights with respect to personal information. These are described here.

Right to Request Under the GDPR

Under certain European data protection laws and certain conditions, you may have the right to request from McGuireWoods Consulting, among other things:

Access to certain information concerning your personal data and the way we are processing it;
Rectification of inaccurate or incorrect personal data;
Erasure or restriction of inaccurate, incorrect personal data or personal data unlawfully processed;
To stop certain processing, at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, including profiling, and to stop any processing, at any time, where it relates to direct marketing; and
To receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, enabling you to transmit the personal data to another data controller.

For more information on the full extent of your rights or to exercise your rights, please contact your local data protection officer by mail or e-mail at the addresses indicated above with a brief explanation of your request. When exercising any of those rights, please let us:

Have enough information to identify you;
Have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driver’s license or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill); and
Know the information to which your request relates.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

If you would like to unsubscribe from any email publication you can also click on the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of the relevant email publication. It may take up to 10 days for you to be removed from the applicable distribution list.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal information (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

Right to Complain Under the GDPR

We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your personal data. However, if you believe your personal data is unlawfully processed by McGuireWoods Consulting under applicable European data protection laws, you may lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns or telephone: 0303 123 1113.

What Are My Rights as a California Resident Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, As Amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA)?

California Privacy Rights

California consumers have certain rights under the CCPA, which are described below. Please note that these rights are subject to certain exceptions and certain of these rights are subject to verification mechanisms under the CCPA.

Right to Know/Access Personal Information Collected About You. You have the right to know: (1) the categories of personal information we have collected about you; (2) the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected; (3) the business or commercial purpose for collecting personal information; (4) the categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information; and (5) the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
Right to Know Personal Information Disclosed, and to Whom. You have the right to request that we disclose to you: (1) the categories of personal information that we collected about you; and (2) the categories of personal information that we disclosed about you for a business purpose and the categories of persons to whom it was disclosed for a business purpose. However, McGuireWoods does not sell or share your personal information.
Right to Request Deletion of Your Personal Information. You have the right to request that we delete your personal information. Following receipt of a request, we will let you know what, if any, personal information we can delete from our records. If we cannot delete all of your personal information, we will let you know the reason.
Right to Correct Inaccurate Information. If you believe that any of the personal information we maintain about you is inaccurate, you have the right to submit a request for us to correct that information. Upon receipt of a request, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct the information as you direct.
Right to Opt Out of the Sale and Sharing of Your Personal Information. You have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information. McGuireWoods does not have actual knowledge of the sale or sharing of personal information of minors under the age of sixteen (16) years old. To opt out of the sale/sharing of your personal information, select Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information.
Right to Limit the Use of Your Sensitive Personal Information. You have the right to request that we limit the use or disclosure of your sensitive personal information to that use which is necessary to perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected. However, McGuireWoods does not process sensitive personal information in a manner that gives rise to this right.
Right to Non-Discrimination for Exercising Your Rights. If you choose to exercise any of your rights, you have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment by us.

Your Rights If You Are a Resident of Any State Other than California

Depending on your state of residency, you may have certain rights related to your personal data. California residents should refer to the “Your Rights if You Are a Resident of California” section above and for a description of California specific rights and Nevada residents should refer to the “Nevada Privacy Notice” below.

Please note that not all of these rights may be applicable to you, these rights are subject to certain exceptions and certain of these rights are subject to verification mechanisms.

The Right to Know. You have the right to know whether we are processing your personal data.

The Right of Access. You have the right to access your personal data, and to obtain a copy of it in a readily usable format, if feasible.

The Right to Correct Inaccuracies. You may request that inaccuracies in your personal data be corrected.

The Right to Delete. You have the right to request that your personal data be deleted, except in cases where retention is required, for example, by law or contractual obligation.

The Right to Data Portability. You have the right to obtain a copy of your personal data in a portable and, if feasible, readily usable format.

The Right to Opt-Out. To the extent applicable, you may elect to prevent your personal data from being:

(1) Used in targeted advertising;

(2) Sold; or

(3) Used for automated decision making or profiling purposes that may produce legal or similarly significant effects.

The Right to Non-Discrimination for Exercising Your Rights. If you choose to exercise any of your rights, you have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment by us.

Rights Regarding Sensitive personal data. Depending on your state of residency, we will either: (a) not process your Sensitive personal data without first presenting you with clear notice and an opportunity to opt out of the processing; or (b) not process your Sensitive personal data without obtaining your consent. You have the right to withdraw your previous consent and opt out of further processing of your Sensitive personal data.

Furthermore, if we have actual knowledge that you are 13 years of age and not older than 18 years of age, we will not without your consent process your personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising, profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal effects or effects of similar significance or selling your personal data.

Rights of Nevada Residents

If you are a consumer in the State of Nevada, you may request to opt out of the current or future sale of your personal information. We do not currently sell any of your personal information under Nevada law, nor do we plan to do so in the future. However, you can submit a request to opt out of future sales by contacting us at info@mwcllc.com. Please include “Opt-Out Request Under Nevada Law” in the subject line of your message.

How to Exercise Your Rights

You may submit requests regarding your rights described above, by emailing your request to info@mwcllc.com or contacting us by phone at 1-800-775-2202.

To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with the requests to know, delete and/or correct. Our verification procedure may differ depending on the nature of your relationship to the firm, and the request you are making. The following generally describes the verification processes we use:

For requests to know categories of personal information, we will verify your identity to a reasonable degree of certainty by matching at least two data points provided by you with reliable data points maintained by us.
For requests to know specific pieces of personal information, we will verify your identity to a reasonably high degree of certainty by matching at least three data points provided by you with reliable data points maintained by us. We may also require a declaration, signed under penalty of perjury, that the person requesting the information is the person whose information is the subject of the request or that person’s authorized representative. We will maintain all signed declarations as part of our records.
For requests to correct or delete personal information, we will verify your identity to a reasonable degree or a reasonably high degree of certainty depending on the sensitivity of the personal information and the risk of harm posed by unauthorized deletion. We will act in good faith when determining the appropriate standard to apply.

If there is no reasonable method by which we can verify your identity, we will state so in response to a request to know or delete personal information, including an explanation of why we have no reasonable method to verify your identity.

If you use an authorized agent to submit a request to know, delete or correct, we may require the authorized agent to provide proof that you gave the agent signed permission to submit the request. We may also require you to do either of the following: (a) verify your own identity directly with us; or (b) directly confirm with us that you provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request. This requirement does not apply if you have provided the authorized agent with power of attorney pursuant to Probate Code sections 4121 to 4130.

We will respond within 45 days of receipt of your request to know or request to delete. If we cannot verify your request within 45 days, we may deny your request. If necessary, we may take up to an additional 45 days to respond to your request but in such an event will provide you a notice and an explanation of the reason that we will take more than 45 days to respond to your request.

How Do You Protect My Personal Data?

McGuireWoods Consulting employs industry-standard best-practice protection to safeguard the personal data it collects.

Security Measures

McGuireWoods Consulting has implemented security-by-design infrastructure utilizing technologies such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, anti-malware detection, data loss prevention, zero-day threat protection, and endpoint encryption. Our security measures include:

Offering encrypted email using Transport Layer Security (TLS) within Microsoft Exchange. Other types of encryption are also available.
Delivering systems that guarantee confidentiality screening for specific lawyers and matters pertaining to certain clients. This screening capability is also available for any matter for which higher levels of confidentiality are required by clients. This provides only individuals who have a “need to know” access to information about client matters.
Providing a secure, encrypted file transfer solution, known as MWFiles, that allows very large files to be transferred back and forth between McGuireWoods Consulting and clients.
Requiring multifactor authentication for remote access into McGuireWoods Consulting’s systems for all employees.
Utilizing external security experts to conduct annual security audits of our environment, including penetration testing and social engineering testing.
Performing regular security audits of McGuireWoods Consulting’s service providers to ensure client information is handled with appropriate safeguards.
Employing advanced threat intelligence to stay abreast of emerging threats in the ever-changing security landscape.
Conducting weekly vulnerability assessments of all McGuireWoods Consulting systems to ensure that new threats are addressed quickly and completely.

What if I do not Want to Provide My Personal Data?

For clients of McGuireWoods Consulting, prospects, job candidates, and providers, it is in your discretion to provide personal data to us. However, for us to enter into a contract with you, or other professional, employment or business relationship with you, we will need to obtain certain information, including personal data that may be necessary or legally required. If you do not provide us with all or some of the personal data we request, we may be prevented from entering into a contract with you, providing you with legal services, hiring you for employment, or sending you marketing information or other communications that you have requested.

For users of the website, providing your personal data is purely voluntarily. Not providing such data may only prevent you from receiving information from McGuireWoods Consulting. Analytical information captured during your visit to our website is described in our Cookies Policy.

Amendments to this Privacy Statement

McGuireWoods Consulting may update this Privacy Statement from time to time, and we reserve the right to do so to comply with applicable data protection laws. The effective date of this Privacy Statement is noted at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this page periodically. If we make material changes to the way that we collect, use or disclose personal data that you have provided, we will post the revised Privacy Statement on our website.

Cookies Policy

Last Updated: January 23, 2026

McGuireWoods Consulting uses cookies on our website. This Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third parties we may partner with may use cookies on our site, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your computer or mobile device. They are widely used to make websites work or improve the efficiency of a website. Cookies help with website functionality and user experience because websites can read and write to these text files, enabling the site to recognize you and remember important information that will make your use of the site more convenient (i.e., by remembering your language or font preference settings).

Cookies Used By Our Website

Our site may use the following cookies:

Strictly Necessary Cookies. These are cookies required for the operation of our website and cannot be disabled. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log in to secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. Below is a description of the cookies of this type that we use on our website, including the retention period for such cookies.

Name	Type	Description	Domain(s)	Expiration
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Analytics and Performance Cookies. These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they use it. This helps us improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. Below is a description of the cookies of this type that we use on our website, including the retention period for such cookies.

Name

Type

Description

Domain

Expiration

Adobe Analytics Cookie

Gathers data regarding site usage and visitor behavior.

.linkedin.com

Session

Adobe Analytics Cookie

Same as above, set on mwcllc.com.

mwcllc.com

Session

_ga

Google Analytics Persistent Cookie

Records a unique ID used to generate statistical data on website usage.

.mwcllc.com

2 years

_ga#

Google Analytics Cookie

Distinguishes individual users with a random identifier to calculate visits and sessions.

.mwcllc.com

2 years

wpEmojiSettingsSupports

WordPress Cookie

Enables emoji support on pages using WordPress.

mwcllc.com

Session

Advertising Cookies. Our sites make use of different third party applications and services to make advertising messages more relevant to users, improve targeting, and measure campaign effectiveness. As a result, cookies may be set by these third parties, and used by them to track your online activity.

Name	Type	Description	Domain	Expiration
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UserMatchHistory	LinkedIn Marketing Cookie	Provides insight into website audiences based on LinkedIn profile data to improve targeting.	.linkedin.com	1 month
_fbp	Facebook Pixel	Identifies visitors for personalized advertising.	.mwcllc.com	3 months
bcookie	LinkedIn Ad Analytics Cookie	Used to optimize advertising on LinkedIn.	.linkedin.com	1 year
lastExternalReferrer	Meta Referrer Cookie	Detects how the user reached the site by logging the last URL address.	mwcllc.com	Session
lastExternalReferrerTime	Meta Referrer Cookie	Records the timestamp of when the user arrived on the site from an external URL.	mwcllc.com	Session
ar_debug	LinkedIn Ads Debugging Cookie	Used for LinkedIn Ads debugging/testing.	px.ads.linkedin.com	Session

Third Party/Embedded Cookies. Our sites make use of different third party applications and services to enhance the experience of website visitors. These include social media platforms or embedded content from Youtube and Vimeo. As a result, cookies may be set by these third parties, and used by them to track your online activity. We have no direct control over the information that is collected by these cookies.

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VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	YouTube Cookie	Used by YouTube to measure bandwidth and determine whether the user gets the new or old player interface.	.youtube.com
YSC	YouTube Session Cookie	Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos the user has seen.	.youtube.com
PREF	YouTube Preference Cookie	Stores user preferences such as language, autoplay, and player size.	.youtube.com

How to Manage, Disable or Opt-Out of Cookies Used By This Site

You may refuse, accept or remove cookies from our website at any time by activating or accessing the Cookie preferences setting on your browser. To change your Cookie preferences or disable cookies altogether, refer to https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html for information on commonly used browsers. Please be aware that if cookies are disabled or removed, not all features of this website may operate as intended.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Disclosure of your information to third party providers of cookies and other automatic trackers (beacons, pixels, etc.) may be considered a sale, targeted advertising, or “sharing.” To opt out of this processing activities, visit Do Not Sell or Share My personal data.

If you have questions or concerns or require further information, do not hesitate to contact info@mwcllc.com.

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