Rebecca Hughes Parker

Rebecca Hughes Parker is Counsel in Dentons’ Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice in New York, focusing on Commercial Litigation. She handles disputes in federal and state courts, arbitration and mediation, including class actions, representing clients across a wide range of industries and legal areas.

Her practice has a focus on media law, First Amendment law, data privacy and cybersecurity law, and corporate compliance. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and serves as general counsel of the Media Coalition, an association that protects the First Amendment right to write, produce and distribute content.

Rebecca rejoined Dentons in 2023 after more than a decade as an editor, journalist and in-house counsel. She served as founding Editor-in-Chief of The Cybersecurity Law Report and The Anti-Corruption Report, and more recently as in-house counsel for ION Analytics (formerly Mergermarket). During her previous time at Dentons, she handled general commercial litigation matters including copyright, trademark, media law, breach of contract, insurance, fraudulent sales practices and white-collar crime cases.

Her representative matters include achieving a favourable settlement for a global consumer products company on alleged Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) violations; prevailing on motions to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction in two putative class actions for a media/publishing company; representing authors, publishers and booksellers in a successful First Amendment challenge to an Arkansas law restricting access to books, winning a permanent injunction against the Attorney General; and defending a global consumer products company in an international arbitration regarding a distribution contract.

Rebecca is recognised in Best Lawyers in America, “Ones to Watch” for Commercial Litigation (2026) and received the Dentons Pro Bono Award in 2009. She holds a JD from Columbia University (2004), where she was Articles Editor of the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, and a BA, magna cum laude, from Harvard University (1999).