Cyber and Technology Disputes Associate - 1-4 Years PQE

Location: London, Manchester, Edinburgh

Brief

We are seeking to recruit a specialist cyber and technology disputes lawyer with 1-4 years PQE to join our market leading international Cyber and TMT Disputes practice.

Background

Pinsent Masons LLP has one of the leading and most established cyber teams in the UK. The team sits within its wider Technology, Media & Telecoms practice which is highly regarded globally with a team of over 30 partners and over 100 additional fee-earners, across a network of offices nationwide and internationally.

The team focuses on cyber, contractual technology disputes and data privacy litigation and has acted on some of the most significant litigation in this area to date. For example, the team acted for Google in the landmark Supreme Court decision in Lloyd v Google. This is widely regarded as the most significant data protection case in this jurisdiction to date.

Our cyber practice supports clients to 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. 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.

Our contractual technology disputes practice has handled some of the most complex technology disputes in this jurisdiction, including what is believed to be the highest value technology arbitration to have proceeded to a final arbitration hearing. The practice handles disputes relating to IT implementation projects, software licensing, outsourcing agreements and general commercial issues within the IT industry.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• Cyber/privacy Litigation: Dealing with litigation connected to cyber and data/privacy matters including: pursuing and defending claims and recoveries involving suppliers; dealing with B2B and B2C claims; defending claims (including group litigation and representative actions) initiated following incidents; and managing other disputes arising out of security/cyber and data/privacy matter.
• Technology Litigation: Dealing with technically complex IT issues, including IT implementation, software licensing, outsourcing agreements etc. Supporting clients in pre-litigation matters, distressed re-negotiation, ADR, and litigation/arbitration.
• 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 clients and cyber insurers, attending and speaking at conferences and writing articles, as well as cementing existing relationships.