Law firm Crowell & Morning is looking to deepen its bench of privacy and cybersecurity attorneys amid what the group’s leader said is an onslaught of new federal activity.
The White House, Congress and the Defense Department are trying to tackle fast-evolving cyber threats to corporations, said Evan Wolff, the co-chair of Crowell’s privacy and cybersecurity practice group. That has spurred the Washington-based firm to bolster its team of cyber savvy lawyers.
Quickly interpreting a range of new laws and regulations for clients is standard for cyber lawyers, he said in an interview. “The expression is, ‘it’s like learning how to fly while you’re in the air,’” he said.
The firm announced Thursday that it has hired Jennie Wang VonCannon, a longtime federal prosecutor, in Los Angeles. She joins a Crowell group that includes about 20 full-time cyber and privacy attorneys and another 20 or so who handle those and other matters.
Congress in March passed a new law requiring that “critical infrastructure” entities report certain incidents and ransomware payments to an agency within the Homeland Security Department. At the same time, the Defense Department has streamlined its cyber security certification program for sharing information with federal contractors.
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