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Data Privacy Law Attorney
A Fulfilling Legal Career with Genuine Work/Life Balance
At Aspire Law, we’re building more than a firm, we’re creating a new model for what a fulfilling legal career can look like. We’re a high-growth, values-driven firm rooted in the belief that ambitious legal work and real work/life balance don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
Pay for this role is up to $215,872 (base salary plus 401(k) matching plus time entry bonus). All attorneys are encouraged to tell the firm the number of hours a week they want to work between 15 hours/week and 40 hours/week. You choose your own billable hour requirement between 700 and 1,410 per year.
In just five years, we’ve scaled from one to eleven attorneys, earned a Pacesetters Award as one of Atlanta’s fastest-growing small businesses, and top 4 ranked in Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “Healthiest Employers” the last 3 years in a row. We are Chambers rated and a member of the Primerus Society, of “the world’s finest law firms.” Clients rate us a 9.6/10. Our team scores us 9.3/10. The numbers speak, but our culture speaks louder.
If you’re a seasoned data privacy and marketing attorney who’s ready to lead with heart, scale a practice with intention, and help define the future of law, let’s talk.
What You’ll Do
Data Privacy Law
You will advise clients on a broad range of data privacy counseling and transactional matters, including:
- U.S. federal and state privacy laws.
- CCPA/CPRA.
- Emerging state comprehensive privacy laws.
- Privacy requirements affecting websites, applications, products, services, and business operations.
- Privacy issues involving marketing campaigns and systems.
- Data collection, use, sharing, retention, and disclosure.
- Data vendor relationships.
- Privacy-by-design considerations.
- Data processing and international data-transfer requirements and transactions
You will translate complicated and rapidly changing legal requirements into clear, practical advice that business teams can actually use.
Privacy Documentation & Agreements
Draft, review, and negotiate:
- Privacy policies.
- Website and application privacy notices.
- Terms of use.
- Data Processing Agreements (DPAs).
- Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs).
- Data-security provisions.
- Vendor privacy provisions.
- Technology and commercial agreements containing privacy obligations.
- Company privacy policies and procedures.
- Data incident response plans.
You should be comfortable identifying and negotiating key risk-allocation provisions, including:
- Indemnification.
- Limitation of liability.
- Warranties.
- Insurance.
- Data security.
- Confidentiality.
- Intellectual property.
Privacy Programs & Compliance
Assist clients with:
- Designing and implementing global privacy programs.
- Maintaining privacy programs as laws and business practices evolve.
- Privacy compliance assessments.
- Data privacy audits.
- Data mapping and related compliance exercises.
- Internal privacy policies and procedures.
- Employee privacy training and guidance.
- Privacy governance.
- Vendor and third-party privacy risk.
- Incident preparedness and tabletop exercises.
- Regulatory developments and compliance planning.
Data Security & Incident Response
Advise clients before, during, and after data-security incidents, including:
- Developing incident response plans.
- Preparing tabletop exercises.
- Assessing legal obligations following an incident.
- Supporting incident investigations.
- Advising on notification and response obligations.
- Coordinating with business, security, technology, and other legal stakeholders.
- Helping clients build stronger incident-preparedness programs.
You may also review software applications—including backend functionality and user experience—for privacy, security, and broader legal compliance.
What We’re Looking For
Required
- At least 5 years of experience specifically practicing data privacy law.
- Strong understanding of U.S. privacy and data-security laws.
- Experience drafting and negotiating DPAs, privacy provisions, and commercial agreements.
- Strong client counseling skills.
- Ability and willingness to learn and handle a broad range of transactional matters.
- Experience hiring, onboarding, and training attorneys.
- Ability to manage significant client work while contributing to firm leadership.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- A practical, business-minded approach to legal service.
- A strong work ethic and willingness to go above and beyond.
- Genuine kindness and strong relationship-building skills.
- A willingness to listen, learn, and improve.
- An appreciation for constructive criticism and a belief that feedback makes you better.
- Comfort making informed gut decisions without unnecessary over-analysis.
- Strong ownership and follow-through
Education
- Graduation from a Top 60 U.S. law school OR graduated top 20% in your law school class
Preferred
- Experience working with enterprise in-house legal departments.
- Experience serving as a secondment or embedded legal resource.
- Experience with sophisticated consumer-facing brands.
- Experience counseling on privacy issues that intersect with marketing.
- Experience with technology transactions.
- Experience with SaaS and marketing technology.
- CIPP/US or CIPP/E certification.
- GDPR and international privacy requirements.
What Aspire Law Offers
- Fully remote work from anywhere in the United States.
- Fully flexible hours and significant autonomy over when you work.
- The opportunity to work with some of the world’s most-loved brands.
- Sophisticated transactional work without the traditional Big Law lifestyle.
- The opportunity to serve as an outside GC and trusted business advisor.
- The opportunity to work as an extension of enterprise in-house legal teams.
- A collaborative team of experienced attorneys—most of whom have 6+ years of legal experience.
- Opportunities for secondment and overflow transactional work.
- A culture that values flexibility, relationships, growth, and practical legal advice.
- Two weeks of paid vacation.
- Unlimited sick leave for physical illness.
- Up to six weeks of annual unpaid sabbatical.
- Up to three additional weeks of unpaid vacation.
- Partial reimbursement for out-of-pocket health insurance.
- 401(K) with up to 4% match
- Practical Law and Westlaw access.
- Annual bar dues reimbursement.
- Flexible start date.
- Other benefits may be negotiable depending on experience and circumstances.
Diversity Statement:
Aspire Law is proudly Asian-owned, woman-owned, and Asian-led. We’re committed to building a team as diverse as the clients we serve.