Ira Parghi is a partner at INQ Law. She has over 20 years of experience practicing both information law and health law and is admitted to practice in Ontario, California, and New York.

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Ira’s information law practice focuses on privacy compliance (including complex United States-Canada cross-border privacy issues), the prevention and management of privacy breaches (including ransomware and other cybersecurity incidents), the use and sharing of data in clinical research, and data governance.  She advises clients on matters ranging from breach prevention and incident response to complex data-sharing agreements, the adoption of “smart” technologies, access to information requests, research contracts, data-related due diligence on corporate transactions, and the Canadian privacy compliance obligations of foreign companies operating in Canada. Her clients include medical technology companies, pharmaceuticals, retail pharmacies, private equity firms, hospitals, health care providers and organizations, research institutes, independent schools, school boards, colleges, retirement homes, non-profits, and municipalities. Ira is expert in a wide range of privacy laws, including PIPEDA, PHIPA, MFIPPA, FIPPA, and US legislation such as HIPAA.  She has successfully represented numerous clients before federal and provincial/state regulators in both Canada and the United States.

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Ira’s health law practice focuses on clinical risk issues and adverse incident management, including large-scale lookback reviews and patient notifications. Ira frequently serves as a trusted advisor to senior administrative and clinical leadership in hospitals and health care organizations, advising on issues management, board and internal stakeholder engagement, media relations, legal compliance, regulatory reporting, and patient and client relations. She also has extensive litigation experience and has argued various matters before tribunals and the courts, including the Ontario Court of Appeal. 

 

Ira regularly speaks, teaches, and writes on emerging privacy and security issues, cross-border privacy, and cybersecurity incident prevention and management. 

 

Prior to joining INQ Law, Ira worked as the Corporate Privacy Officer at a large US health network, a lawyer in the health care group of a global law firm based in the United States, and a lawyer in the health law group of a large Canadian law firm.

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