Jay Johnson

Managing Director, Deputy Chief Counsel

Charles Schwab

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Jay Johnson is Managing Director and Deputy Chief Counsel in the Technology, Digital and Innovation legal group at Charles Schwab and oversees privacy and cybersecurity for the company’s legal team.  He also is an adjunct professor at the SMU Dedman School of Law, where he developed and teaches the school’s flagship class on data privacy and cybersecurity law.  Jay previously was a partner in Jones Day’s Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Data Protection practice group and an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Texas.  At the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he coordinated the U.S. Attorney’s efforts to investigate and prosecute cyber crime and IP theft, and he served as the primary internal resource for the district’s prosecutors on issues related to the collection and use of electronic evidence. At the outset of his career, Jay clerked for federal judges in the District of Kansas and at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.”