Cyber Lawyer

Description CYBER LAWYER – PQE 3-10 – LONDON Brief We are seeking to recruit a lawyer 3 years PQE to join our market leading international TMT practice specialising in cyber work. The Candidate The successful candidate will have excellent academics and will have gained experience in a City firm or in a large regional practice, with a strong litigation background. We are looking for a team player who can work with different teams and lawyers across the firm. The successful candidate must be a self-starter who enjoys business development with a track record of success in this area. The role requires a technical TMT background including extensive experience of cyber and data privacy matters together with a strong litigation background. Experience of other contentious data protection matters (e.g. SARs and FOIA requests) would be a bonus but is not essential. The cyber matters we work on are often large and high profile involving significant factual, technical and legal complexity. The successful candidates will demonstrate an appetite for getting involved and strong organisational skills. Since we almost invariably work in teams, the successful candidate will need to be a natural communicator and have a desire to work closely with others. TMT & Cyber Background Pinsent Masons LLP has one of the leading and most established Technology, Media & Telecoms practices in the UK. With a team of over 30 partners and over 100 additional fee-earners, across a network of offices nationwide and international, our substantial practice provides commercial, advisory and contentious services. Pinsent Masons LLP provides a full range of advice and guidance, including in relation to: cyber, data protection, privacy, defamation, media, intellectual property, Freedom of Information, technology, telecoms, IT and communications disputes, outsourcing, e-business, IT product and services contracts and commercial contracts. Our dedicated Cyber practice is a key part of our TMT Disputes team. Our Cyber team support clients and manage a full range of cyber matters including: pre-breach services such as cyber simulations; full incident response management; regulatory investigations; and litigation arising out of cyber incidents. Members of our team have 10 years of cyber experience. Our team is consistently praised by both the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners for its strengths in this area, with the team having been involved in some of the most significant cases to affect this area in recent years. We support clients pre, during and post-security incidents, seeking to mitigate the attendant reputational, commercial and legal risks. Members of the Cyber team work closely with their non-–contentious Information Law colleagues, offering a coordinated approach which often results in the effective management and resolution of data protection related matters. We are currently very busy dealing with a number of high profile cyber, data protection and privacy disputes and expect this to be a substantial growth area for our team post-GDPR and as issues of online privacy come into the litigation spotlight in the next few years. Key responsibilities will include: Pre-breach: development and delivery of pre-breach services to clients including cyber simulations, incident response planning programmes, cyber training and other cyber advisory work. Breach: end to end management of cyber security incidents including: fielding calls to our 24/7/365 breach response line; initiating and leading CMT calls; appointing IT forensics firms; engaging PR consultants; advising on notification obligations; notifying and liaising with criminal authorities (e.g. NCA, NCSC); project managing the incident response; appointing foreign counsel and coordinating multi-jurisdictional incidents; engaging credit monitoring and notification service providers; applying for injunctions; and submitting takedown requests. Regulatory: managing regulatory investigations including: notifying regulators (e.g. ICO and FCA); dealing with regulatory enforcement action; and appealing enforcement decisions. Litigation: Dealing with litigation connected to cyber matters including: pursuing claims and recoveries against suppliers; dealing with B2B and B2C claims; defending group litigation and representative actions initiated following incidents; and managing other disputes arising out of security incidents. GDPR Counsel: Advising on international breaches including with regard to Article 3 of the GDPR. Business development: assisting with business development activities, internally within the firm and externally in the market, in order to win new clients and to win cyber work from existing clients - this will include identifying and developing relationships with cyber insurers, attending and speaking at conferences and writing articles, as well as cementing existing relationships. Knowledge, skills and experience required: Previous hands-on experience of advising on cyber matters including the four areas identified above is a key requirement. A strong commitment to and enjoyment of business development is very important. An awareness of and good understanding of recent and upcoming regulatory changes in the data protection sphere is expected. About the firm Pinsent Masons is an international law firm with a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in its deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which its clients operate. With over 1,500 lawyers operating from 24 locations throughout the UK, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East, Pinsent Masons is well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines. In recent years it has achieved more tier 1 rankings in The Legal 500 UK guide than any other firm, and is recognised among the most innovative law firms in Europe by the Financial Times. The firm has significant international credentials in the global energy, infrastructure, financial services and advanced manufacturing and technology sectors. Services provided across these sectors include corporate and M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, construction, projects, pensions, property, planning and environmental, procurement, outsourcing, empl