Houlton, Sabrina

Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Lawyer Overview

Sabrina Houlton is an associate in Wiggin and Dana's Litigation Department in the firm's New Haven office. Her practice deals with privacy issues, including preventing and addressing data breaches and complying with privacy laws and regulations. Sabrina's work in privacy law has included handling internal investigations and responses to data breach incidents, drafting and reviewing privacy policies, providing advice regarding business practices that raise privacy concerns, and advising clients dealing with identity theft issues, including under the Red Flags Rule. Sabrina's practice also includes white collar defense, internal investigations, litigation, and appellate.

Prior to Wiggin and Dana, Sabrina worked as a Trial Attorney for the Public Integrity Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C., where she investigated and prosecuted public corruption cases and successfully argued a vote-buying case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She also served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia, where she tried over 25 misdemeanor criminal trials. Sabrina spent over four years as an associate with a Washington D.C. based law firm, where she worked on a civil trial resulting in a verdict of over $500 million and on an Independent Counsel investigation.

Sabrina clerked for one year for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. She received her B.A. from Wesleyan University, where she graduated with Honors and as Phi Beta Kappa, and her J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Areas of Practice

• Litigation
• Appellate
• White-Collar Defense, Investigations & Corporate Compliance
• Insurance

West Practice Categories

Business Organizations, White Collar Crimes, Insurance Law, Litigation & Appeals, Federal Appellate Practice, State Appellate Practice

Bar Admissions

• Connecticut
• District of Columbia
• Maryland

Past Employment Positions

• U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C., Trial Attorney
• District of Columbia, Special Assistant United States Attorney
• United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, Clerk

Education

• Stanford Law School, Stanford, California, 1998
  J.D.
• Wesleyan University, 1993
  B.A.
  Honors: With Honors

Fraternities/Sororities

• Phi Beta Kappa

Address

One Century Tower
265 Church Street
Post Office Box 1832
New Haven, CT 06508-1832

Phones

(203) 498-4342

Faxes

(203) 782-2889

Emails

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Websites

http://www.wiggin.com