How is it working at data privacy/cybersecurity law firm? I’ve only worked as an in house counsel (mainly contract review and transactional work and little bit of data privacy research and counseling) and I am kinda day-dreaming about working at a law firm. How is it working at a law firm in data privacy sector? What do you do on a day to day basis??

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in a similar role and same question - btw OP do you do AI work too?

Yes I do, but the current company is not AI tech, so it is not the main area of my task unfortunately

I think many jobs involve incident response which is exhausting. I left privacy law firm life because the work was incessant and repetitive

Lots of the privacy issues I advise on are product-related, which are way more interesting imo, especially if you're tech-minded and are interested in your product. I use to be a pure privacy counsel and didn't love the back-end privacy compliance work. I found that incredibly boring, but still way better than being at a firm because of the WLB. Privacy in-house also paid well and was pretty stable.

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Are you asking about working at a privacy law firm like a boutique or working in biglaw in a privacy practice?

It can be boutique or big law as long as I can learn and have hands on experiences on these subject matters. I feel like working only in house limits my exposure?! How is your experience?

I work on the litigation side in a cybersecurity/data privacy group. Work is interesting and always evolving. National practice which i also find challenging.

Class action data breach cases, tech E&O policy work, etc.

I did privacy in biglaw just so that I could eventually make the jump in-house as privacy/product counsel. If you think doing some privacy at a firm will let you go back in-house in a better role for higher pay (e.g., as privacy/product counsel), I'd do it. Product counsel gigs are pretty sweet

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