Co-Chair, Cybersecurity & Data Protection Practice, Paul Weiss

John P. Carlin is co-chair of Paul Weiss’s Cybersecurity & Data Protection practice and co-chair of the Digital Technology Group. John is a deeply accomplished litigator who advises industry-leading organizations on matters involving privacy and cybersecurity, crisis management, Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), sanctions and export control, white collar defense and internal investigations. He has served as a top-level official in both Republican and Democratic administrations, including as the Acting Deputy Attorney General of the United States, as the top national security official for the U.S. Department of Justice, as the Chief of Staff of the FBI and as an experienced Assistant United States Attorney. Mr. Carlin has been featured or cited as a leading authority on cyber and economic espionage matters by numerous major media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, CBS’s 60 Minutes, NBC’s Meet the Press, PBS’s Newshour, ABC’s Nightline and Good Morning America, NPR, CNN and Vanity Fair, among others.