You will form part of the Data & Privacy team, which is an effective and cohesive cross firm, cross industry and cross sector team making up its own independent and autonomous Legal Practice Group within the firm (it sits between EIR and CMI), comprising both contentious and non-contentious lawyers from both divisions. Depending on your skills and experience your particular focus could be on issues arising in a workplace context or a commercial context but we would expect you to advise on both and to be involved in contentious and non-contentious work.
The Data & Privacy team is made up of two partners, one legal director, seven associates, one practice development/support lawyer and two paralegals. The team is an energetic, informal and sociable group with a very impressive client base, predominantly in the marketing, publishing, gig economy, media, retail, sport and professional services sectors.
Typical work types include (but limited to):
- Privacy notice reviews, cookie consent mechanism reviews and workplace data protection policies and contracts reviews;
- DPA reviews ranging from simple processing agreements to complex media buying and adtech related agreement;
- Ad hoc day to day GDPR, PECR and FOIA queries in both a workplace and commercial content;
- Advising on client marketing strategies;
- Dealing with data incidents from initial enquiry to claim management;
- Assisting with data subject rights requests;
- GDPR audit work including data mapping; and
- Provision of tactical advice on international issues and data and privacy governance strategies.
In addition to the above, the team has been part of a number of high profile regulatory investigations as well been involved in a number of contentious and litigious data & privacy matters, both of which are both fast-growing areas of our practice.
As an associate in the team you would work in all these different areas – sometimes in multi person teams, at other times leading a project with supervision as required.
Although we do not currently advise a lot of clients in the cyber security space, this is something we are exploring so an interest or background in cyber security would also be welcome but by no means a requirement.
Training
The Data & Privacy team’s training programme includes seminars and workshops given by external speakers and by our own internal experts. We have dedicated Practice Development Lawyers who are responsible for maintaining know-how and precedents across the team, as well as the Lewis Silkin Business School which provides our Associates with the tools and skills necessary to develop.
The successful candidates will be allocated a Career Development Partner (CDP) who will have an overview of their long-term career aspirations and progression. We have an excellent track-record of developing our Associates and generating opportunities for Partnership. Organic growth and a strong team culture is at the heart of our success. |