Mid-Level Associate, Cyber, Privacy & Data

Job Description

We are seeking a passionate and experienced associate (3-5 years) to make a significant impact on Orrick’s fast-growing and internationally recognized cybersecurity and incident response practice.

Our cybersecurity / incident response practice provides clients with strategic legal advice for responding to data breaches, including some of the largest in history. We are members of Orrick’s Cyber, Privacy and Data Innovation team, and we work collaboratively with practices across the firm, as well as various teams within clients, to tackle challenges in incident response, including forensic investigations, communication strategies, and regulatory / litigation risk mitigation. We also use this experience to provide clients with practical solutions to help mitigate risk in their cybersecurity and incident preparedness programs. We support clients of all sizes across the firm’s industry verticals of technology, finance, and energy.

The ideal candidate will play a pivotal part in advising and representing clients on all aspects of cybersecurity and incident response matters. As a trusted legal advisor, you will help our clients navigate the complex and ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats and data protection regulations.

For the eighth year in a row, Orrick is one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, the annual list that recognizes companies with extraordinary workplace cultures. We bring distinctive quality, diverse teams, and innovation to everything we do. At our core, we value collegiality among our lawyers and strive to make our practices both professionally and personally rewarding. We’ll help you to connect with peers and mentors to ensure you are integrated into our client teams. Our top-notch training and mentoring programs, retreats and academies, shadowing opportunities and more are what set up apart. If you are passionate about innovation work in a dynamic environment, you’re just who we’re looking for.

Job Requirements:
The ideal candidate should be a highly motivated, dynamic, and creative individual with outstanding interpersonal skills, and above all a team player. The candidate must possess strong academic credentials, excellent legal research and superb writing and oral communications skills. This position offers the candidate the opportunity to assume significant responsibility, work directly with clients and be an integral member of a vibrant team. Membership to the State Bar of the desired office location is strongly preferred.

Experience in cybersecurity and incident response is required.

Successful candidates can be based in any U.S. office.

Compensation and Benefits

The expected salary range for this position is between $310,000 and $365,000.

Orrick is committed to providing a comprehensive, competitive, and thoughtful total compensation package to our attorneys and staff, wherever they work. This compensation and benefits information is based on the Orrick’s estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include, but not limited to, qualifications, relevant experience or education, particular skills or expertise, geography. Other compensation may include an annual discretionary merit bonus, which would be determined by Firm and individual performance.

We offer a full range of elective health benefits including medical, dental, vision and life insurances; robust mental well-being benefits; child, family, elder, and pet care benefits; short- and long-term disability benefits; a health savings account (w/applicable medical plan), flexible spending accounts, long-term care insurance, and a 401K program. This role is eligible to employees will receive compensated time off through Flexible Time Off program, generous Parental leave benefits, and paid holidays.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Consistent with the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, an arrest and conviction record will not automatically disqualify a qualified applicant from consideration for employment. For attorney positions, a ‘qualified applicant’ is an individual who is a member of the State Bar of California, admitted in good standing, and is eligible to practice[1]; or whose admission to the State Bar of California and eligibility to practice remains subject only to successful completion of the California Bar Examination.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for the position in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.

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