Hogan Lovells partner Harriet Pearson has just finished a presentation at the firm’s annual global client forum at the Harvard Club in New York.

The event is part of Pearson’s new life as a firm attorney. She joined Hogan in June after almost two decades serving a single client, IBM, where in 2000 she became one of the first-ever chief privacy officers in the Fortune 500. Pearson wasn’t only IBM’s CPO but its security counsel, too.