2025 Summer Associate – Cyber/Data/Privacy

Cooley LLP is recruiting 2L summer associates for the 2025 summer program to join our Cyber/Data/Privacy practice in any of the following offices: Chicago, Colorado, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. Please only apply to one office and if you are open to other offices, feel free to include that information in the notes section of the application.

Cooley’s cyber/data/privacy group offers the full spectrum of counseling and litigation capabilities in cybersecurity, data rights, and privacy to clients around the globe. We provide companies with a holistic approach to compliance, security and response that’s built to preserve and protect our clients through a growing number of crippling data breaches and vulnerabilities in digital assets, intellectual property, employees, outside vendor access, brand reputation, and trade secrets. Summer associates who join the cyber/data/privacy group will have the opportunity to take assignments from both the counseling and litigation side of the practice and can work with their assignment coordinator to curate their workflow.

Whether responding to a data breach, developing a privacy policy, conducting due diligence on an M&A transaction, guiding a company through a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) inquiry or regulatory investigation, or defending a client against litigation, we assist our clients in navigating the increasingly complex landscape of international laws and regulatory requirements. Our enduring record of helping top companies with cyber/data/privacy matters and our unmatched industry leadership are regularly recognized by such respected publications as Law360, which repeatedly has named the Cooley team as Cybersecurity & Privacy Practice Group of the Year.

We represent industry leaders, executives and boards of directors whose innovative technologies and business models often raise novel legal issues in the area of privacy and data security. In some instances, these issues challenge the fundamental definition of data protection and privacy in the age of information, interconnectedness and social media – whether in traditional industries like healthcare, telecommunications and higher education that have evolved with the rapid increase of digitized information, or in emerging industries such as social media, drones, smart grid technology and the Internet of Things. Our lawyers understand the importance of not only knowing and applying the law but shaping it in a way that better enables our clients to develop and deploy value-maximizing business strategies.

Cooley’s cyber/data/privacy team is part of our CooleyREG offering, through which we combine an understanding of the impact of disruptive advancements – and the regulatory issues that impose risk and slow progress – to help our clients navigate an increasingly complex regulatory landscape.

The expected salary for this position is based on an annualized rate of pay of $225,000.

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