About this role
Senior Cyber Incident Response Attorney
This is a fully remote position.
This is an excellent opportunity for cybersecurity attorneys who are eager to advance their careers and take on significant, substantive responsibilities in defending complex cybersecurity-related cases.
Key Responsibilities:
- Incident response for cybersecurity and data privacy incidents
- Taking lead responsibility in responding to clients and carriers, and overseeing breach response work by Associates
- Interaction with senior level management and technical personnel at client companies
- Analysis of state, federal, and international privacy laws
- Drafting legal notices of a data breach to individuals and regulators
- Responding to regulatory investigations arising out of a data breach
- Defending privacy lawsuits
- Drafting privacy and security policies and procedures pursuant to HIPAA, GLBA, CCPA, and other statutes
- Triaging data breaches/incident response
- Advising clients on handling cybersecurity incident from start to finish
- Oversight of forensics investigations
- Oversight of third-party vendors for e-Discovery, data mining, and notice projects
- Advising clients on legal notification obligations under State/Federal laws
- Drafting breach notification letters to individuals and State/Federal Regulators
- Drafting Crisis Communications for clients
- Responding to inquiries and investigations by State/Federal Regulators
- Interfacing with clients
- Drafting reports to insurance carriers and clients
- Preparing legal budgets
- Supervising junior team members
Qualifications
- JD from an accredited Law School is required
- Must be admitted to Bar in good standing
- 8+ years legal experience
- 5+ years of experience in data privacy and security, with particular focus on data breach and incident response
- Strong knowledge of data breach and privacy laws (HIPAA, GLBA, FERPA, CCPA, GDPR, etc.)
- IT or technical background a plus
- Some litigation experience is a plus
- Excellent research, writing, and communication skills (Lexis and Westlaw)
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Team player