Blair Dawson and Dominic Paluzzi selected to Cybersecurity Docket's Incident Response Elite for 2026

McDonald Hopkins is proud to congratulate data privacy and cybersecurity attorneys Blair Dawson and Dominic Paluzzi on their selection to Cybersecurity Docket's Incident Elite for 2026.

The list of lawyers in the Incident Response Elite for 2026 represent many of the top law firms in the U.S. and Europe, and are often the “first call” for companies that suddenly find themselves the victims of a security incident or ransomware attack. Cybersecurity Docket calls the Incident Response Elite "our list of the best data breach response lawyers in the business. Based on nominations, input from numerous senior lawyers and other professionals in the field, and considerable research, we tried to answer a simple question: "Who would you hire if your company suddenly found itself the victim of a data breach?"

Blair brings extensive experience in data privacy consulting and responding to data security incidents to McDonald Hopkins' Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice Group. She also has more than 20 years of insurance coverage consulting and claims knowledge, including serving as General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Insurance Management for one of the largest international insurance brokers in the world.

Blair's practice includes extensive experience responding to data security incidents while ensuring her clients remain compliant with state, federal and international requirements, as well as managing operational and reputational impact.

Dominic is the Co-Chair of McDonald Hopkins' Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice Group. He advises organizations on data privacy and cybersecurity risks on both a national and international basis, including pre-breach services, incident response strategies and management, and defense of regulatory enforcement actions and single-plaintiff and class action litigation.

He and the data privacy team have counseled clients through over 21,500 data breaches and privacy incidents, where he works closely with local, state and federal law enforcement, forensic investigators and third-party cybersecurity vendors to offer his clients efficient and effective breach response services in compliance with the numerous state, federal, international and industry-specific legal obligations.

This is Dom's seventh time on the list.

To learn more about Incident Response Elite, click here.