Christina N. Stewart serves as breach counsel to organizations responding to cybersecurity incidents, including data breaches, ransomware incidents, and other cybersecurity events. She guides clients through incident response, legal risk mitigation, and compliance with state, federal, and international data privacy and breach-notification laws. Building on her cybersecurity experience, Christina is expanding her practice to include emerging issues in artificial intelligence (AI) governance and regulatory compliance, with a focus on responsible and risk-aligned adoption of AI technologies.

Christina focuses her practice on cybersecurity incident response, data privacy, and emerging technology matters. She also maintains a substantial general liability practice, handling premises liability, motor vehicle accident, and other personal injury claims. Her litigation background enhances her work as breach counsel, equipping her to manage complex fact investigations, assess risk and exposure, and coordinate strategically across stakeholders during fast-moving incidents.

She earned her Juris Doctor from the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, where she served as an editor for the Pace International Law Review, worked as a research assistant, and completed internships with the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office and the New York State Office of the Attorney General.

Christina received her bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology from Pace University–Pleasantville, graduating summa cum laude. During her undergraduate studies, she interned with the U.S. Department of Probation for the Southern District of New York and the Legal Aid Society of Westchester County. She also participated in a service-learning program at the Westchester County Jail, where she taught a parenting course to female inmates to support rehabilitative programming.

In addition to her practical experience, Christina conducted research on human trafficking in the United States, creating crime maps to identify trafficking hotspots. She presented her work, “Modern-Day Enslavement: Using Crime Mapping to Understand and Identify Human Trafficking in the U.S.,” at the International Journal of Arts and Sciences Conference in Germany; the research was later published in the International Journal of Multidisciplinary Thought.

  • Current Regulatory Landscape of AI in the United States and European Union, SUNY New Paltz, February 2025

Admissions

  • New York
  • Connecticut
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

EDUCATION

  • J.D., Elisabeth Haub School of Law, Pace University, 2022
  • B.S., Criminal Justice, Pace University
    – Minor in Psychology

Languages

  • Spanish