Senior Cyber Incident Response Attorney
About The Position
This fully remote position offers cybersecurity attorneys the opportunity to advance their careers while taking on significant, substantive responsibilities defending complex cybersecurity-related cases. The attorney will lead incident response for cybersecurity and data privacy incidents, advise clients throughout the incident-response process, oversee breach-response work and investigations, and interact with clients, insurance carriers, regulators, and client-company personnel. The role also includes drafting legal notices, policies, reports, budgets, and crisis communications; responding to regulatory investigations; defending privacy lawsuits; and supervising junior team members.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school.
- Admission to a bar in good standing.
- At least 8 years of legal experience.
- At least 5 years of experience in data privacy and security, with a particular focus on data breach and incident response.
- Strong knowledge of data-breach and privacy laws, including HIPAA, GLBA, FERPA, CCPA, and GDPR.
- Excellent research, writing, and communication skills, including experience with Lexis and Westlaw.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Team-player mindset.
Nice To Haves
- IT or technical background.
- Some litigation experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead incident response for cybersecurity and data privacy incidents.
- Take lead responsibility for responding to clients and insurance carriers and oversee Associates’ breach-response work.
- Interact with senior-level management and technical personnel at client companies.
- Analyze state, federal, and international privacy laws.
- Draft data-breach legal notices to individuals and regulators, including breach-notification letters to individuals and state and federal regulators.
- Respond to regulatory investigations arising from data breaches and inquiries or investigations by state and federal regulators.
- Defend privacy lawsuits.
- Draft privacy and security policies and procedures pursuant to HIPAA, GLBA, CCPA, and other statutes.
- Triage data breaches and support incident response.
- Advise clients on handling cybersecurity incidents from start to finish, including legal notification obligations under state and federal laws.
- Oversee forensic investigations.
- Oversee third-party vendors for e-Discovery, data mining, and notification projects.
- Draft crisis communications for clients.
- Interface with clients.
- Draft reports to insurance carriers and clients.
- Prepare legal budgets.
- Supervise junior team members.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
