Cybersecurity / Privacy Attorney

The core of this work is translating data protection law into processes an organization can actually run: advising on what state, federal, and international legal requirements demand of the way personal data is collected, stored, and used, and helping teams implement controls that satisfy them.

The role is both advisory and representative. Day to day it means assessing privacy risk, drafting contracts that address data privacy obligations, and counseling product development and marketing teams so compliance is built in before launch rather than retrofitted after. When a regulator comes calling, the attorney represents the client before that body and manages the legal dimension of the interaction.

Incident response is a defining part of the job. When a breach or privacy incident occurs, the attorney works alongside technical responders to mitigate losses while keeping every step legally compliant: what must be disclosed, to whom, on what timeline, and how the organization's actions will be judged afterward. That work produces privacy risk assessments, analyses, and incident reports that inform both leadership and regulators.

Because data privacy laws differ across jurisdictions, the role also carries a strategic dimension: developing compliance and risk mitigation strategies that hold up globally, incorporating privacy and security requirements into policies and controls, and building the internal and external relationships that keep legal advice connected to business objectives.