Lithuanian lawyer specialising in data protection, cybersecurity, and compliance. 18+ years advising regulated clients across technology, telecommunications, finance, life sciences, entertainment, and food & beverage.
Migle's TEDx Kaunas talk on how the data we shed online maps to legal exposure offline - and what individuals, regulators, and lawyers each owe each other in a world where the footprint never resets.
LNK's news desk picked Migle as the on-air legal authority for their follow-up segment on the viral Coldplay kiss-cam incident - walking viewers through the practical steps event organisers, employers, and attendees should take when a public moment turns into a private exposure.
The same story ran in print across LRT (Migle's own op-ed), Delfi, and 15min - each card opens in §05 below.
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An hour with Migle on what it takes to make partner: how she chose the practice area, what she got wrong about ambition, and how data protection went from a niche specialism to the centre of every commercial conversation.
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Conversation about how privacy law is rewiring HR, where the line falls between employer monitoring and worker dignity, and what compliance teams should be doing instead of writing more policies.
When a Lithuanian outlet needs an authoritative view on data protection, AI, or platform liability, Migle is the lawyer they call. A selection of her recent appearances, in the order they were published.
On the boundaries of surveillance and recording at political gatherings - when public attendance does and does not strip you of your GDPR rights, and what organisers must do to stay on the right side of the line.
Commentary in Lithuania's flagship business daily on how cybersecurity law, NIS2 and cyber-insurance now intersect at board level, and where leadership liability really sits when an incident lands.
Migle is interviewed on how platform liability rules and content-moderation duties under EU law apply to streamers who film harassment in public spaces - a story that broke open after threats against Lithuanian commentator Skirmantas Malinauskas.
Same-day analysis in 15min's business section, with Migle as the lead expert quoted: even at a public event, a recording where a person can be identified is still personal data, and event organisers must inform attendees the event is being filmed before pressing record.
Delfi's follow-up to the viral Coldplay-concert kiss-cam incident, with Migle as the legal authority interviewed on whether being filmed at a public event strips you of data-protection rights. (Spoiler: it does not.)
Migle's own op-ed in LRT's business-opinion column, framing the kiss-cam fallout as a test of GDPR's reach into public-event recordings. The piece that the Delfi feature and follow-up commentary all picked up.
Keynote on how compliance and cybersecurity stop being checklists and start being competitive advantage - for the audience of network operators who actually carry Europe's data traffic.
View details ↗Panel moderator at INFOBALT's flagship forum on building a trust-based data ecosystem in the Baltics, hosted at the Lithuanian National Library.
View details ↗Earlier TEDx talk on how the data we shed online maps to legal exposure offline.
View details ↗Analysis of pandemic-era surveillance and data-processing measures in Lithuania, weighed against GDPR and the European Convention on Human Rights. Published in the leading European academic outlet on internet policy.
Read on Policy Review ↗Pre-practice academic writing under her maiden name, Miglė Dereskevičiūtė. Listed in the Faculty of Law's papers archive on Academia.edu.
Faculty archive ↗Nominated Lawyer of the Year in Privacy & Data Protection at the Women in Business Law EMEA 2025 Awards - the leading European recognition for women practitioners in privacy and tech law.
Joined Sorainen, her former firm, as Partner and Co-Lead of the Commercial & Regulatory practice group on 2 June 2025, after 14+ years at Ellex Valiunas where she made Partner in 2022.
BNS press release ↗Listed by Legal 500 during her earlier tenures at both Ellex and Sorainen. Her 2022 promotion to Partner at Ellex was covered by CEE Legal Matters as part of a leadership cohort across the firm's Lithuanian office.
The European Compliance Professionals Association. Migle is one of the founders, served on the inaugural board, and is featured in the "Get to Know Our Founders" Q&A.
ecpa.pro ↗The largest digital technology business association in the Baltic states, representing hundreds of tech employers and shaping national digital-economy policy.
infobalt.lt ↗The Lithuanian Data Protection Officers' Association - the professional body for in-house and external DPOs operating under GDPR and Lithuanian implementing law.
ldapa.lt ↗Corporate Governance and Business Law at ISM University of Management and Economics, Vilnius. Previously taught at Vilnius University Faculty of Law for three years.
faculty.ism.lt ↗Independently maintained directory entries. Each one is a verifiable reference - the firms and platforms below curate their listings, so inclusion is itself a signal.
Migle's public footprint spans three names - Miglė Dereskevičiūtė (her maiden name, on her early academic work), Miglė Petkevičienė (her name during her years at Ellex Valiunas), and her current name, Miglė Dewsbury. Same person throughout. Older sources and directory entries may still appear under her previous names.