Please join us in congratulating, Jevan Hutson, Associate at Hintze Law PLLC, for earning recognition as 2023 Washington Rising Star by Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters. Jevan is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) and Certified Information Privacy Manager and key member of Hintze’s Cybersecurity & Breach Response Group and the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Group. His recognition stems in part from his role as a respected expert and thought leader on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) ethics, law, and policy.
Jevan frequently speaks about, and has published a number of scholarly writings on, the topic of AI & ML. He has been featured speaking on privacy in multiple major news outlets, including The Washington Post, MIT Technology Review, Protocol, The Rolling Stone, WIRED, VentureBeat, BuzzFeed News, Reuters, Mother Jones, CNN, The Huffington Post, and The New York Post.
His practice focuses on the intersection of privacy, security, and data ethics, with particular experience in emerging ethical and policy issues in generative AI, large language models (LLMs), ML, and computer vision (CV). Jevan helps clients assess and mitigate the reputational, regulatory, and legal risks associated with the development and deployment of AI/ML technologies.
Jevan routinely advises clients in identifying, evaluating, and managing complex global privacy and cybersecurity risks and compliance issues. He also helps clients develop and implement privacy programs and guides them on state, federal, and global privacy and cybersecurity compliance and data breach notification laws. Substantive areas of expertise include, AI policy, breach response, facial recognition and biometrics, the FTC Act, consumer protection, dating platforms and intimate privacy, M&A due diligence, California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Jevan received his J.D. from the University of Washington where he held positions as a law clerk for the Federal Trade Commission’s Northwest Regional Office, a policy advocacy intern for the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington’s Technology & Liberty Project, and a legal intern for Nintendo of America.
As a law student, Jevan also led facial recognition and AI policy development at the University of Washington School of Law’s Technology Law and Public Policy Clinic. As part of that work, he engaged extensively with state and national policy debates around privacy, AI, and facial recognition and represented the University of Washington on the Port of Seattle’s External Advisory Group for biometrics. Jevan also served as president of the University of Washington Student Bar Association and received several honors and awards, including the Gregoire Fellowship, Jack MacDonald Merit Award, and Pro Bono Honors.