Jennifer Ruehr

Jennifer Ruehr is Co-Managing Partner of Hintze Law PLLC and a strategic advisor to companies navigating privacy, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data governance challenges. She helps shape the firm's strategic direction, client service model, and continued growth as a boutique privacy, cybersecurity, and AI governance firm serving sophisticated technology-driven clients. Jennifer also co-chairs the firm's Workplace Privacy Group, Cybersecurity and Breach Response Group, and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Group.

Jennifer helps companies navigate privacy, cybersecurity, AI governance, and workforce data challenges. She serves as a trusted advisor to boards, executive leadership teams, and governance committees on emerging technology, cybersecurity, AI, and enterprise risk management issues. Drawing on nearly two decades of in-house legal experience, she provides practical, business-focused guidance to legal, privacy, security, HR, product, and business teams. Her approach reflects Hintze Law’s “outside in-house counsel” model: collaborative, efficient, and tailored to each client’s business, risk tolerance, and internal decision-making processes.

Jennifer counsels leading technology companies, HR technology providers, mobility and transportation technology companies, manufacturers, media organizations, telecommunications providers, and other innovative businesses on complex privacy, cybersecurity, AI governance, and data-related matters. She works closely with executive leadership, legal, privacy, security, HR, and product teams on enterprise risk management, incident response, and AI governance. Jennifer regularly advises clients on privacy, cybersecurity, and AI issues arising in mergers, acquisitions, strategic investments, and business integrations, including transaction diligence, transaction risk assessments, contractual protections, and post-acquisition integration planning and execution. She is particularly valued for translating complex legal obligations into practical governance frameworks, operational controls, and business-focused solutions that support innovation while managing regulatory and operational risk.

Jennifer has developed a significant practice helping organizations operationalize AI governance and managing requirements and risks related to emerging AI regulatory requirements. Her work includes supporting AI product and system development, enterprise AI programs, workforce AI tools, biometric and voice technologies, automated decision-making, AI vendor management, data use governance, AI risk assessments, and implementation of emerging requirements under U.S. state AI laws, privacy laws, and international frameworks. She helps organizations develop governance structures, risk assessment processes, product review mechanisms, contractual controls, and launch-readiness programs that enable responsible innovation while addressing emerging legal and regulatory requirements She frequently advises boards and senior leadership on AI strategy, emerging technology risk, cybersecurity oversight, and privacy considerations in strategic business initiatives.

Jennifer has special expertise in workplace privacy and AI in employment-related contexts. She advises clients on employee monitoring, workforce privacy notices, internal privacy policies, retention and deletion programs, workplace privacy assessments, biometric and location data, health information, background checks, employee profiling, workplace investigations, workforce AI tools, recruiting and hiring technologies, and automated decision-making in the workplace. Her work in this area often involves helping organizations balance innovation, employee trust, regulatory requirements, and operational realities.

Jennifer maintains an active data and cybersecurity practice advising clients on security governance, program development, incident preparedness, breach response, tabletop exercises, physical security and cybersecurity risk management, and regulatory notification obligations. She regularly helps organizations prepare for, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity incidents while aligning security, privacy, legal, and business objectives.

Before joining Hintze Law, Jennifer served as Legal Counsel, Privacy and Security, at Adobe Systems Incorporated, where she advised on global data protection strategy, privacy compliance, cybersecurity, vendor risk management, product development, incident response, and technology transactions. Her in-house background continues to shape her practical counseling style: concise, actionable advice that helps clients manage risk, support innovation, and achieve business objectives.

Jennifer is a frequent speaker and author on privacy, cybersecurity, workplace privacy, and AI governance issues and regularly presents to legal, privacy, HR, and executive audiences on emerging technology and data governance challenges.

Jennifer is a 2017 Fellow of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity and serves on the International Association of Privacy Professionals Privacy Bar Section Advisory Board. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) and is admitted to practice in Ohio.

Memberships & Leadership

Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, Fellow 2017-Present
International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
- Advisory Board Member, Privacy Bar Section, 2026-2027

Education

University of Akron, School of Law, JD, 2011
Washington State University, BA, 1993

Bar Admission

Ohio

Certifications

Certified Information Privacy Professional – United States (CIPP/US)
Certificate of Intellectual Property Law and Technology, University of Akron School of Law, 2011