Senior Cyber Incident Response Attorney
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Job Description
Senior attorney handling cybersecurity incidents, privacy compliance, and litigation for national law firm Wilson Elser. Advising clients, regulators, carriers, and legal teams on data breaches.
Responsibilities:
- Handle incident response for cybersecurity and data privacy incidents
- Lead responses to clients and carriers and oversee breach response work by Associates
- Interact with senior management and technical personnel at client companies
- Analyze state, federal, and international privacy laws
- Draft data breach notices to individuals and regulators
- Respond to regulatory investigations arising from data breaches
- Defend privacy lawsuits
- Draft privacy and security policies and procedures under HIPAA, GLBA, CCPA, and other statutes
- Triage data breaches and incident response
- Advise clients on cybersecurity incidents from start to finish
- Oversee forensic investigations
- Oversee third-party vendors for e-Discovery, data mining, and notice projects
- Advise clients on legal notification obligations under state and federal laws
- Draft breach notification letters to individuals and state/federal regulators
- Draft crisis communications for clients
- Respond to state and federal regulator inquiries and investigations
- Interface with clients
- Draft reports to insurance carriers and clients
- Prepare legal budgets
- Supervise junior team members
Requirements:
- 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, including HIPAA, GLBA, FERPA, CCPA, and GDPR
- IT or technical background is a plus
- Some litigation experience is a plus
- Excellent research, writing, and communication skills, including Lexis and Westlaw
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Team player
Benefits:
- Meaningful work handling sophisticated matters alongside experienced attorneys and partners
- Supportive team environment with mentorship and professional development
- Opportunities for long-term growth within a nationally recognized firm
- Flexible hybrid work arrangement supporting work-life balance
- Competitive compensation
- Generous PTO
- 401(k) match
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage
- Corporate discount programs
- Employee benefits




