Associate/Senior Associate - Data & Cyber

The role

RPC is seeking an Associate/Senior Associate with 1-4 years of experience in their Technology practice area to join the Data & Cyber team in London. This role focuses on advising clients on cyber incidents, data regulatory matters, and technology insurance coverage.

What you'll do

• Advise insurers, insureds and brokers on breach response insurance matters, including policy interpretation, coverage position analysis, reservations/coverage correspondence support, and claims presentation strategy
• Support and run complex cyber coverage matters, including multi-insurer claims, allocation issues and high-value/fast-moving claims environments
• Advise on technology and cyber-related liability coverage issues and the interplay between coverage, incident response and potential third-party claims
• Support the defence and strategy of technology/data-related claims and disputes arising from cyber exposures, including managing pre-action issues, ADR/mediations and litigation workstreams
• Support cyber incident response from initial compromise through containment and recovery, helping clients manage legal risk alongside operational response
• Advise on notification strategy and regulatory engagement, including ICO-facing matters and associated enforcement/investigation risk
• Support handling of data subject and related third-party claims arising out of incidents, including coordinating litigation risk strategy with coverage and incident response considerations
• Coordinate pragmatic data protection advice alongside our data advisory team to support incidents/claims
• Deliver cyber and technology insurance and coverage work
• Provide associated cyber incident response and data regulatory support
• Advise corporates on non-insured cyber incidents, pre-breach preparation, internal and external communications support following a breach and breach remediation activities
• Support on high-pressure incident response mandates and related privacy/regulatory workstreams
• Ensure coverage considerations are integrated with practical breach response and stakeholder management
• Involve direct client contact and coordination with brokers, forensic and incident response providers, and counsel where appropriate
• Supervise junior lawyers

What we're looking for

Benefits