Alexandra Samofalova

Alexandra has a reputation for resolving disputes efficiently through pre-litigation channels and provides preventive counseling to help clients mitigate legal exposure and ensure they are well-prepared to navigate potential legal challenges. When informal resolution is not possible, she aggressively pursues enforcement. Her ability to balance proactive strategies with decisive enforcement ensures that clients are both protected and well-positioned for success, demonstrating her commitment to facilitating seamless transactions.

Alexandra is at the forefront of emerging legal fields, advising businesses on the intricate web of data privacy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence laws. She counsels clients on regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, and best practices for data protection, ensuring their operations remain resilient in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Her focus areas include:

• Data Protection & Compliance: Guiding businesses through compliance with state, federal, and international data privacy laws, including the CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, HIPAA, and industry-specific regulations.
• Cybersecurity Risk Management: Advising on incident response planning, breach mitigation, regulatory reporting, and cyber insurance coverage.
• AI Governance & Ethical Deployment: Ensuring responsible AI implementation by advising on regulatory frameworks, risk management, data usage, algorithmic accountability, bias mitigation, intellectual property risks, and ethical AI practices.

Alexandra’s ability to synthesize complex legal, technical, and operational considerations allows her to provide comprehensive risk management solutions that protect businesses from regulatory penalties, reputational harm, and cybersecurity threats and ensures her clients stay ahead of evolving technological threats while maintaining compliance with fast-changing global regulations.

While Alexandra’s primary focus is on emerging data privacy, cybersecurity, and AI law, her real estate, corporate, and business law knowledge remains a cornerstone of her practice. She has advocated and litigated on a broad spectrum of real estate and business disputes involving corporate operations and governance, nonprofit law, fair housing, title issues, leasing, housing finance, consumer protection, construction defects, unfair business practices, contract disputes, and professional liability.

Her experience extends to working with quasi-governmental associations such as planned developments, homeowners associations, and co-operatives, as well as both working on financing, acquisition, development, syndication, sale or lease-up, and operations for both for-profit and nonprofit developers and owners across the state.

Alexandra’s provides housing clients diligent guidance on compliance with various government regulations and affordable housing programs, including U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs such as HUD’s Section 8 project-based rental assistance, project-based voucher, and housing choice voucher programs. She also provides counsel on the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program and regulatory agreements with state and local funding sources.