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Deloitte Legal in the UK brings together over 350 top-flight lawyers, consultants and technology experts. People who understand the implications of digitisation, big data, AI, machine learning and technology platform-based business models in today's world. In addition, because our clients' needs usually span across multiple countries, our team is part of a global partnership of more than 2,000 Deloitte Legal professionals who collaborate seamlessly across more than 80 countries worldwide.
Unlike traditional law firms, we work hand-in-hand with the multidisciplinary expertise of the rest of Deloitte to provide holistic legal, tax, risk, financial advisory as well as data privacy and cybersecurity expertise and other consulting advice to an unmatched list of clients, from listed multinational companies to entrepreneurs and family offices.
If you are a talented, entrepreneurial and ambitious lawyer, who sees things a bit differently, Deloitte Legal could be for you. We have built a market-leading legal advisory business with technology at its core – and you can help us shape it.
Our wider Commercial Technology team has established itself as one of the strongest in the UK and is ranked in both Chambers and Legal 500. Our legal professionals work with clients in sectors as diverse as software and services, online, content, equipment and telecommunications, building extensive knowledge and insight into the legal and commercial challenges they face.
In business sectors that are being transformed by technology, we guide our clients with their technology procurement and deployment. We support them in the development of their online and digital commerce activities and work with supply-side providers to banking, insurance, media, professional services, retail and travel companies as well as to the public sector.
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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
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We are looking to recruit a Legal Director – Cybersecurity to help lead and develop our evolving Cybersecurity legal service offering as we expand our Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity team.
You will be responsible for supporting legal needs of corporate organizations, both suppliers and customers, of all sizes and profiles across the range of primarily cybersecurity related issues with a secondary focus to support our data privacy compliance services.
As a Director, you will also be responsible for initiating and leading the pursuit of new business development opportunities, project managing the day-to-day delivery of our legal services, and mentoring and training junior associates.
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Candidates will need to have a real entrepreneurial interest in evolving a cybersecurity legal service offering within Deloitte Legal in parallel with Deloitte’s world class technical cybersecurity services in our risk advisory, forensics, and consulting service areas. Candidates will also need to have data privacy knowledge and experience across a range of sectors to also contribute to the delivery and management of our maturing data privacy practice.
The successful candidate will common law qualified and will have displayed experience across a range of topics across cyber, privacy and data protection including:
Cybersecurity:
- Skilled in UK law, but globally focussed.
- Small and large incident response efforts and advising companies across all industries on data breach response and other data security incidents
- Managing or working with a 24/7/365 cyber breach response legal services offering.
- Coordinating cyber security dispute matters alongside a specialist legal disputes team.
- Cybersecurity audits and liability analysis, cyber insurance evaluation and employee security training.
- Design and delivery of services to proactively mitigate the legal and business impact of security incidents such as table-top exercises, training programmes, etc.
- Threat-intelligence monitoring and deep-look, long-term strategic data protection forecasting.
- Interest in placing cybersecurity and data privacy at the heart of a client’s trust agenda.
- Due diligence and support during M&A and other transactions, including those with cyber and cross-border data components.
Privacy and Data Protection:
- Providing legal advice to clients on UK data protection law (GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018, Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, etc.).
- Coordinating and delivering global data privacy compliance programmes.
- Compliance with regulatory and industry-specific issues, including NIS, PECR, EU and UK GDPR, CCPA, CPRA and other national and state privacy laws.
- Cross-border transfer issues.
- Strategic relationships with third-party service providers to provide an enhanced range of services.
- Drafting a variety of privacy and data protection documents including DPIAs, TIAs, DPAs, etc including working directly with clients in order to effectively obtain relevant information.
- Managing multijurisdictional projects including coordinating legal advice and delivering work product to clients.
- Drafting privacy policies, Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), consent documents and legal basis assessments.
- Experience in assisting clients manage and respond to Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs).
- Creating and maintaining records of processing activities (ROPAs) and implementing a variety of data mapping tools.
- Project management in the delivery of privacy and data protection services.
- Exposure to Legal Tech software and in particular Privacy Tech solutions including those from OneTrust, TrustArc, BigID, etc.
- Negotiating and drafting data processing agreements and clauses as well as data sharing provisions.
- Privacy audit management and third-party supplier management in a data privacy context.
Intangibles:
- An active interest and ability to proactively support business development
- Activity, creating and maintaining strong client relationships and
- Identifying and pursuing new business opportunities.
- An enthusiastic and responsive approach to client requirements, comfortable with client contact and previous responsibility for client matters.
- Excellent people skills and a good, clear communication style with the ability to liaise effectively with other fee earners from within the group, but also to liaise and coordinate with other departments and jurisdictions as required.
- The ability and experience to project manage the delivery of complex matters alongside proven negotiation skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a challenging, team-based environment.
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By connecting legal expertise and technological innovation, we’re creating a new future for law. At Deloitte Legal, you’ll work collaboratively to transform business outcomes, as you grow your own career. Join us and experience the future of law, today.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
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“At Deloitte I am encouraged to work from home whenever it’s convenient. My hours are flexible – if I want to start earlier or later I can, provided I work my weekly hours overall. There are loads of non-work-related initiatives going on that you can become involved in.”- Becky, Deloitte Legal
“Our ability to seamlessly integrate legal services into broader solutions offered by Deloitte is a differentiator as compared to traditional law firms. Deloitte also has some impressive proprietary technology which we can use to streamline/improve the delivery of legal services. We are ahead of the competition in this regard, including the other Big Four.” - Benjamin, Deloitte Legal
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Location: Your home office will be London
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.
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Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
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A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
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