Listen to this articleLowenstein Sandler LLP is launching a new multidisciplinary team to help clients navigate data risk across the business lifecycle.
Known as Data360, the model brings together attorneys with both legal and tech experience to advise on a range of data-related issues, the Roseland-based law firm announced in a Sept. 15 press release.
According to Lowenstein, Data360’s legal technologists deliver holistic support from coordinating forensics and managing breach notifications to advising boards and engaging regulators.
Its legal services include:
- Privacy, security and AI compliance program development
- Data subject rights (DSR) management
- Breach preparedness, incident response and crisis management
- Transactional privacy and security due diligence
- Emerging tech counseling and program implementation
- Alternative data (e.g., scraping, dark web)
- Content moderation and child safety
- Litigation and regulatory defense
- Global privacy strategy and international data transfers
‘Data drives business’
Seeing a market need for data trust, Amy Mushahwar envisioned Data360 as a way to offer legal counsel fluent in technical risks. Mushahwar chairs Lowenstein’s data privacy, security, safety & risk management practice. It also builds on the firm’s mission of delivering actionable, business-aligned advice.
“From advising emerging companies and venture capital firms to representing AI businesses and investors, we’ve consistently led at the intersection of legal strategy and technology risk,” she said.
In an era of growing concern around data and privacy, Mushahwar said, “Today, data drives business—and your partners expect your company to be a trusted steward of the information they share.”
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That wasn’t the case “five to 10 years ago” when “data risk rarely derailed deals,” she said.
“Data360 is our technology-forward approach to lawyering—built with lawyers who’ve served as CISOs [chief information security officers], CISSPs [certified information systems security professionals], PCI-QSAs [Payment Card Industry qualified security assessors], ethical hackers, developers, and elite attorneys. Today’s privacy and security practice demands legal-technical dual threats, alongside former regulators and prosecutors. We partner with you as a deep bench,” Mushahwar explained.
Lowenstein partner and Data360 co-developer Kathleen McGee added, “We enable general counsels to embed privacy, security, and safety controls directly into business operations and product development lifecycles. Our Data360-trained lawyers are what I wanted to see as a regulator—professionals who ground themselves in the technology to answer the hard questions.”
Mushahwar and McGee collaborated with the firm’s data privacy, security, safety & risk management practice to build its team. The Data360 group includes former CISOs, security auditors, software engineers and leaders from elite government cyber units, such as the FBI’s Cyber Division, U.S. Attorney’s Office, and state attorneys general, according to Lowenstein.
