Who We Are
Copper Hill Strategies knows that each client is unique and there is no one-size-fits-all approach to successful government relations and public policy advocacy. We take the time to learn the specific needs of each client and design a strategy best-suited to meet those needs. Copper Hill provides personalized attention with expert results.
Our Services
Government Relations
Copper Hill utilizes its extensive experience to provide federal and state government relations, consulting, and lobbying services. We are a voice for our clients, professionally and effectively advocating their public policy objectives.
Strategic Planning
The key to effective advocacy is strategic planning. Copper Hill assists our clients by mapping out a plan designed to successfully shape the public policy debate and produce results.
Legislative Development
With years of experience drafting some of the most complex bills in Congress, Copper Hill has the expertise to assist clients with developing federal and state legislative and regulatory proposals that achieve the optimum outcome.
business development
Effective messaging and strategic business relationships are key to establishing and growing your business. Copper Hill assists clients with a wide range of business development opportunities.
AbouT Caroline
Caroline Lynch is the founder and owner of Copper Hill Strategies, LLC, providing client-focused government relations, strategic planning, legislative, and business development services. With over two decades of legal and policy-making experience, Caroline successfully advocates for her clients with federal and state lawmakers on a variety of issues and guides clients through complex regulatory compliance.
Caroline launched Copper Hill Strategies in 2017 following an extensive career on Capitol Hill, including a decade with the House Judiciary Committee, where she served for eight years as the Chief Counsel of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Caroline was at the forefront of developing some of the most high-profile privacy, cybersecurity, national security, and criminal laws of the 21st Century, including updates to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Act and FISA Amendments Act.
Caroline has been actively engaged in cybersecurity policy for over a decade, from leading the Bipartisan Encryption Working Group following the San Bernardino terrorist attack, to recent enactment of federal cyber breach notification laws.
Caroline has also advised clients on federal legislation addressing encryption, facial recognition, blockchain and cryptocurrency, and immigration and border security. She successfully advocated for the creation of Arizona’s fintech sandbox, has helped clients navigate compliance with state and federal marijuana and hemp laws, and assisted clients with CARES Act and American Rescue Act funding.
Prior to joining the Judiciary Committee, Caroline served as Chief Counsel of the House Republican Policy Committee, Deputy County Attorney for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, and Clerk for the Arizona Court of Appeals. She previously served in the personal office of former Congressman John Shadegg from 1996 to 2000.
Caroline is Vice Chair of the Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation board, Vice Chair of the Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations board, member of the Arizona Advisory Committee of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition and the Arizona Technology Council. She has guest-lectured at the ASU, Texas A & M, and George Mason law schools, and is a Visiting Fellow at the George Mason Law National Security Institute. Caroline is a Distinguished Fellow at the ASU Masters in International Affairs and Leadership program and a 2003 graduate of the ASU Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.
Latest News
copper hill strategies presents at the Arizona Technology Council’s Cybersecurity breakfast forum, december 2022
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, provided an update on federal cybersecurity legislation and reporting mandates and discussed what to expect in cyber legislation from the 118th Congress at the annual cybersecurity breakfast forum hosted by the Arizona Technology Council.
copper hill moderates girls get IT professional women think tank, November 2022
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, moderated a professional networking and think tank program with IT women professionals as part of the 4th Annual Girls Get IT event.
copper hill presents at the 2022 tribal border alliance summit, October 2022
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, participated on a panel addressing the upcoming 118th Congress and what to expect on federal immigration and border security policy.
copper hill provides federal cybersecurity update to actra board, June 2022
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, presented an update on federal cybersecurity legislation to the Arizona Cyber Threat Response Alliance quarterly board meeting, including the newly-enacted Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA).
copper hill leads spotlight interview at AZTC Cybersecurity summit, may, 2022
Copper Hill Strategies Founder and Owner, Caroline Lynch, interviewed cybersecurity expert Norma Krayem with Van Scoyoc Associates during the Spring Arizona Technology Council Cybersecurity Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona.
copper hill founder named to board of phoenix committee on foreign relations, September 2021
Copper Hill Strategies Founder and Owner, Caroline Lynch, joins the board and executive committee of the Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations.
Copper hill Strategies launches D.C. office, July 2021
Copper Hill Strategies announced the official opening of its Washington, D.C. office steps from the U.S. Capitol to continue to provide its clients personalized attention with expert results.
copper hill founder joins international policy group, february 2021
Copper Hill Founder, Caroline Lynch, was named to the Arizona Advisory Committee of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. The Committee, chaired by Cindy McCain, works to educate and engage policymakers and community leaders on why investments in development and diplomacy help keep America safe and strengthen Arizona’s economy.
Copper Hill talks cda 230 reform with Arizona businesses, September 8, 2020
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, examined legislative proposals to amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and the potential impact on Arizona businesses as part of the Arizona Technology Council’s Virtual Breakfast Speaker Series.
COPPER HILL DISCUSSES Facial Recognition Policy at Emerging Tech CLE, January 29, 2020
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, provided an overview of facial recognition technology and its legal implications at the Arizona Bar Association.
Copper Hill Joins Arizona MEP Policy Academy Cybersecurity Team, December 2019
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, joins other cybersecurity experts on the Arizona Commerce Authority Manufacturing Extension Partnership’s Policy Academy to develop cybersecurity tools for Arizona manufacturers.
copper hill talks technology and cybersecurity careers at the girls Get I.T. event, december 6, 2019
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, shared her journey from community theater geek to lawyer, Capitol Hill staffer, small business owner, and cyber/tech consultant with 150 high school and college women at Mesa Community College.
copper hill discusses cybersecurity and privacy with the aerospace and defense forum, November 13, 2019
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, joined fellow cybersecurity professionals in Phoenix, Arizona, to talk about the latest developments in cybersecurity and privacy laws.
Copper Hill hosted by Coconino county bar association for Blockchain cle, September 17, 2019
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, discussed blockchain and cryptocurrency laws with lawyers in Northern Arizona.
copper hill speaks on panel of women in cybersecurity, September 11, 2019
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, joined professionals from American Airlines and Salt River Project to talk about their work in cybersecurity hosted by the Cybersecurity Council of Arizona.
copper hill participates in ACLEA panel on Blockchain, July 29, 2019
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, discussed Blockchain and the future of the Law at the Association for Continuing Legal Education (ACLEA) meeting in Chicago, Illinois.
copper hill participates in public forum on the usa freedom act, may 31, 2019
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, addressed members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board about the USA FREEDOM Act in Washington D.C. The Act, enacted in 2015 to reform various national security authorities, is set to expire in December 2019.
copper hill speaks at inaugural blockchainKC conference in Kansas City, Missouri, April 24, 2019
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, addressed the BlockchainKC conference on two panels discussing civic development of blockchain and blockchain law.
copper hill moderates ASU Law Blockchain series panel, April 17, 2019
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, capped off the ASU Law Blockchain Series with a panel discussion on privacy and identity in blockchain with Congressman David Schweikert, Desert Blockchain Founder Jay Carpenter, and Perkins Coie Attorney Josh Boehm.
copper hill talks cybersecurity at the connecting global aerospace industry conference, february 26, 2019
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, spoke to aerospace industry leaders about the “Good, the Bad & the Ugly: Cybersecurity Legislation in the 116th Congress” at the Americas Aerospace Cluster event at ASU Skysong.
copper hill moderates panel on fintech and cryptocurrencies, december 12, 2018
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, moderated a panel discussion on Fintech and Cryptocurrencies at the Arizona Technology Council’s Third Annual Cybersecurity Lunch Forum at ASU Skysong.
copper hill owner named to ku blockchain institute industry advisory board, october 8, 2018
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, has been named to the newly-formed Industry Advisory Board at the University of Kansas Blockchain Institute.
copper hill participates in cle panel at American Public power association legal seminar, october 7, 2018
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, provided an overview of the state and federal legal and regulatory framework governing blockchain and cryptocurrency technology at the APPA 2018 Legal and Regulatory Conference in Charleston, SC.
Copper Hill Guest Lectures at SANDRA DAY O'Connor College of Law, September 4, 2018
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, discussed with students at the ASU College of Law the federal and state regulatory hurdles facing tokenized blockchain innovators in the U.S.
Copper Hill applauds enactment of regulatory sandbox bill by arizona Governor Doug Ducey, March 22, 2018
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, joined Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich and leaders in the Arizona technology community on stage at the AZ Tech Innovation Summit to watch Governor Ducey sign HB 2434 into law, creating the first regulatory sandbox in the United States to allow fintech and blockchain innovators test their products in Arizona.
Copper Hill Discusses federal sentencing at Texas A&M Law School Spring Symposium, February 9, 2018
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, participated in a panel on federal sentencing reform at the Searching for Justice: Modern Issues in Criminal Justice Reform Symposium hosted by the Texas A&M Law Review.
Copper Hill Guest Lectures at SANDRA DAY O'Connor College of Law, February 6, 2018
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, discussed with students at the ASU College of Law the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act, and the recent enactment of the FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017.
COPPER HILL PRESENTS REGULATORY OVERVIEW AT asu lAW BLOCKCHAIN CLE SERIES, January 17, 2018
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, outlined the federal and state regulatory and legislative landscape that virtual currency and blockchain innovators are confronted with today at the first in a series of discussions hosted by the ASU Center for Law, Science, and Innovation.
copper hill named advisor to infosci, llc, october, 2017
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, named to the Board of Advisors to disruptive cybersecurity technology innovator infOsci, LLC.
copper hill participates in ABA 12th annual homeland security law institute, September 26, 2017
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, joined a panel of national security experts to discuss FISA 702: A Discussion of the Legislative Landscape at the American Bar Association's 12th Annual Homeland Security Law Institute in Washington, D.C.
copper hill named advisor to sweetbridge, inc., august 2017
Copper Hill Strategies joins blockchain innovator Sweetbridge, Inc. as a public policy and legislative advisor providing federal and state government relations and regulatory services.
copper hill talks marijuana, hemp and water delivery at 2017 nwra western water conference, August 8, 2017
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, addresses the relationship between federal and state marijuana and hemp laws and the potential legal implications for water delivery to marijuana and hemp farms at the National Water Resources Association Western Water Seminar in Santa Fe, New Mexico
copper hill participates in cle course for the arizona state bar, june 28, 2017
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, discusses the interplay between technology and federal surveillance laws as part of the High Technology and the Law 2017 Continuing Legal Education course
copper hill presents at special session on cybersecurity, may 19, 2017
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, joins the "Hackers and Lawyers" panel discussion at ASU Law's 5th Annual Conference on Governance of Emerging Technologies: Law, Policy, and Ethics
COPPER HILL PRESENTS AT atic'S EIGHTH ANNUAL cYBERSECURITY meeting, May 18, 2017
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, presents at the Arizona Telecommunications & Information Council's 8th Annual Public Meeting in collaboration with the Arizona Cyber Threat Response Alliance (ACTRA) and Arizona Infragard on "Congress and Cybersecurity: A Forecast of Legislation Congress Will or Will Not Move"
copper hill presents at 2017 cybersecurity summit, May 4, 2017
Copper Hill Owner, Caroline Lynch, joins a panel discussion on Incident Response and Notification at the May 4th Cybersecurity Summit hosted by the Arizona Tech Council, the Arizona Commerce Authority, and the Arizona Cyber Threat Response Alliance (ACTRA)/Arizona Infragard
politics unplugged, march 19, 2017
Professor Gary Marchant, Faculty Associate K Royal, and Attorney Caroline Lynch join us to talk about privacy issues.
Capitol Hill’s Love-Hate Relationship with FISA
FISA Section 702 is up for reauthorization, and Congress is wringing its hands again. This time the monster in the closet is the incidental collection and unmasking of U.S. person communications.
The Virtue of Sunsets?
I’m not a fan of sunsets. I don’t mean the glorious sprays of color caused by the setting sun. I’m referring to expiration dates, particularly those attached to ...
ECPA Reform 2.0: Previewing the Debate in the 115th Congress
Below is a summary of a few of the high level issues that Congress may address in ECPA reform beyond establishing the warrant-only standard for criminal investigations.
