Clara Cottrell

Clara Cottrell is a Board Member at the North Carolina Bar Association. Clara has 9 years of experience as an Assistant General Counsel, Compliance & Privacy, Senior Counsel, Compliance & Privacy, and Senior Counsel at BASF. Clara has also worked as an Associate Attorney at Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP (now Fox Rothschild LLP) for 4years 10 months, where they specialized in Intellectual Property law and general Corporate law. Clara has also served as a Law Clerk at the North Carolina Business Court for 1 year 1 month and as an IP Law Intern at Procter & Gamble for 4 months. Clara has also worked as a Clerk at the Judge Steelman North Carolina Court of Appeals for 3 months and as a Legal Intern at Marks & Clerk for less than a year. Finally, they have 2 years of experience as a Legal Assistant at Myers Bigel Sibley Sajovec.

Clara Cottrell has a law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law and a biochemistry degree from North Carolina State University. Clara is also certified as a privacy management professional by the International Association of Privacy Professionals and as a privacy management professional by OneTrust.