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Marketing Law and Data Privacy Law Transactional 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
Marketing & Advertising Law
You will advise sophisticated businesses on a wide range of marketing, advertising, promotions, and consumer-facing legal issues, including:
- Review of advertising and marketing campaigns.
- Advertising claims, substantiation, disclosures, and disclaimers.
- Digital and social media marketing.
- Email and SMS marketing.
- Influencer and talent relationships.
- Sweepstakes, contests, and promotions.
- Loyalty and rewards programs.
- Consumer promotions.
- Sponsorships and branded content.
- Production and advertising agreements.
- Advertising insertion orders.
- Marketing agency agreements.
- Influencer agreements.
- Talent agreements.
- Sponsorship agreements.
- Marketing technology.
- Website and application content.
- Consumer-facing terms and disclosures.
- Marketing-related privacy issues.
- Consumer protection and advertising compliance.
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 will help clients understand not simply whether something is legally permissible, but how to accomplish the business objective while appropriately managing legal and business risk.
You should be comfortable handling or willing to learn a broad range of transactions and soft-IP matters.
You should have or will develop strong practical judgment around indemnification, limitation of liability, warranties, insurance, data security, intellectual property, and other key commercial provisions.
What We’re Looking For
Required
- At least 5 years of experience spending at least 30% of your time practicing marketing law or equivalent
- At least 5 years of experience spending at least 30% of your time practicing data privacy law or equivalent
- At least 5 years of full-time experience as a general transactional attorney.
- Experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial and technology agreements.
- Experience hiring, onboarding, and training attorneys.
- Ability and willingness to learn and handle common day-to-day legal issues for businesses in marketing, technology, retail, consulting, and other industries.
- Strong client counseling and communication skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- A practical, business-minded approach to legal service.
- A strong work ethic and willingness to go above and beyond for clients and teammates.
- Genuine kindness and an ability to build strong relationships.
- A willingness to listen, learn, improve, and change course when appropriate.
- You seek out and appreciate constructive criticism and view it as a gift rather than a threat.
- You are comfortable making informed decisions without overthinking every issue.
- You naturally take initiative and follow through.
- You are passionate about making time to manage and develop other people.
- You are naturally gifted at rallying people and inspiring action around projects, tasks, and ideas.
- You care deeply about relationships—with clients, colleagues, and the people you lead.
Education
- Graduation from a Top 60 U.S. law school OR graduated top 20% of your class.
Preferred
- CIPP/US certification.
- CIPP/E certification.
- Experience working with enterprise in-house legal departments.
- Experience serving as a secondment or embedded legal resource.
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.