The Role of Attorney at Law in Ensuring Compliance of Personal Data Processing with the Data Protection Law
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The article analyses the role of attorney at law in ensuring compliance of personal data processing with EU and national data protection law. The author points out the growing complexity of data protection regulations, particularly arising from the new legal acts, and highlights the challenges faced by attorneys at law in practice. The analysis emphasises that effective legal assistance provided by attorney at law remains crucial for many controllers and processors to be able to comply with their legal obligations. The study identifies typical areas related to the requirements set out in the GDPR where an attorney at law can provide support to controllers and processors. The analysis also covers the question of whether an attorney at law can perform the function of a data protection officer. The author underscores the importance of legislative developments and the need to engage and improve the qualifications of legal professionals to effectively meet new legal requirements in the data protection.
Source: Studia Iuridica Lublinensia
Institution: John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4415728197
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