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Lucy Inger

The early days. Lucy started her career as an in-house IT trainer and trouble shooter for the Royal Institute of British Architects. She went on to join the IT team at Herbert Smith where she developed a keen interest in all things legal which led to a law degree at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.

Legal career. Lucy completed her legal training at Clifford Chance and joined Masons (now Pinsent Masons) in 1996 where she specialised in data protection, technology and ecommerce. She was promoted to Senior Associate in 2000 and left shortly after to become AstraZeneca’s lead IT/IS and data protection in-house lawyer. Lucy left AstraZeneca in 2005 to set up her own consulting business, The Privacy Practice, and joined forces with Amanda Kearsley to form lawmatix LLP on 22 January 2007. lawmatix LLP became lawmatix Ltd in February 2011. Lucy is the author of the data protection volume of Butterworth’s Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents, is on the editorial board of Data Protection Law & Policy, a member of the SCL’s Privacy & Data Protection Interest Group, and an examiner for the British Computer Society’s ISEB Certificate in Data Protection.

Clients. Lucy has advised a wide range of clients on privacy, data, technology and ecommerce matters, including one of the UK’s leading providers of commercial data, a national distributor of food products, a household name dance company, several financial institutions, public utilities, direct marketing organisations and the public sector.

Notable projects

• Data protection / exploitation. Conducted several full scale data audits for large organisations in the food industry, retail sector and financial sector; advised on the value of a national supermarket’s customer database as part of a joint venture deal; advised on privacy issues arising from the conduct of multi-site clinical trials; drafted data protection notices to minimise marketing opt out rates.
• IT contracts. Drafted an entire suite of IT contracts for a large multinational organisation which included software licensing and development, systems integration, hardware procurement, turnkey agreements, content development, electronic data capture and hosting services.
• Outsourcing. Advised a global organisation on the outsourcing to IBM of the whole of its IT infrastructure across multiple countries. This was one of the largest IT outsourcing projects in Europe at the time.
• Ecommerce. Advised on the creation and launch of the first European interactive patient website for asthma sufferers, which allowed patients to monitor their condition on line (through the use of specially created peak flow meters) and share data with their doctor.