McDermott Will & Emery is continuing a push to build up its data privacy expertise, adding the co-chair of Akerman’s privacy, cybersecurity and emerging technologies team.

Carolyn Metnick’s decision to join McDermott in its hometown Chicago office comes on the heels of the firm hiring Laura Jehl as the new global head of its privacy and cybersecurity practice. Similar to Metnick, Jehl was a co-leader of Baker & Hostetler’s blockchain technologies and digital currencies team before she jumped ship.