How did you break into privacy law? What are the pro/con’s?

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I am a junior corporate associate in big law. I reached out to the privacy group in my firm and expressed interest. Turns out they needed junior support, so now I'm becoming a privacy associate and in the process of getting my cipp/us. Helps if you have some privacy background (I took a privacy class in law school and had done some writing on the topic).

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What firm? Are they looking for more privacy associates?

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There are a bunch of threads in this bowl about this with a lot of great answers!

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Following. I have multiple privacy externships/jobs during law school and my CIPP/us /e but am not sure where I am going to land if I don’t get big law out of school

Privacy internship in 2017 for a tech company

UG in CS, took multiple privacy courses in LS, DOJ internship on cybercrime, SA in big law privacy practice, hired as first year in said privacy practice

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