PaulYovanic

Associate

Paul helps his clients navigate complex litigation matters and resolve their legal challenges through cost-effective and practical solutions.


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Paul’s practice focuses on class actions, including data, privacy, and information security litigation. He has extensive class action experience and defends clients against data breach and various state law privacy claims, including the highly litigious Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), often litigating matters of first impression. He also counsels and performs risk assessments for clients using or considering biometric-capable technologies. Paul has defended dozens of BIPA class actions, both employment and consumer, including some of the most high-profile lawsuits in the country. His attention to detail and team-first mentality has made him a key member of various bet-the-company cases.

Paul is co-editor of Seyfarth’s Consumer Class Action Defense Blog. In addition, Paul regularly writes, presents, and comments on emerging issues affecting privacy class actions, and is an active member of the Sedona Conference’s Working Group 11 on Data Security and Privacy Liability. He also represents clients in a variety of industries against commercial contracts, product liability, premises liability, employment discrimination, and bankruptcy litigation.

Paul was a summer associate at Seyfarth in 2016. During law school, he was an extern at the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a CALI Award recipient for Appellate Advocacy and Writing. Paul was also the president of Loyola’s Labor & Employment Law Society and a member of the school’s ABA Negotiation Team. As a 711-licensed law student, Paul gained valuable experience representing pro se litigants through the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Settlement Assistance Program for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

  • JD, Loyola University Chicago School of Law

    Dean's list
    Advocacy certificate
    American Bar Association Negotiation Competition
    CALI Excellence for the Future Award for appellate advocacy
    Labor & Employment Law Society president
    US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission legal unit student externship
    Obtained a 711 license for the Northern District of Illinois' Settlement Assistance program

  • BS, Loyola University Chicago
  • Illinois
  • US Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
  • US District Court, Central District of Illinois
  • US District Court, Northern District of Illinois
  • US Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Illinois