Full-Time
Data Security Specialist
Updated on 9/3/2026
Milbank
1,001-5,000 employees
Global law firm handling complex transactions
Compensation Overview
$140k - $160k/yr
New York, NY, USA
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Bachelor's
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- A bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Security, or a related field; equivalent experience is accepted.
- At least 4 years of experience in information security, including at least 2 years focused on data protection, data loss prevention, or data governance.
- In-depth, hands-on experience with enterprise data loss prevention and rights management platforms, with deep expertise in the Microsoft M365 stack, including Microsoft Purview DLP across Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Endpoint DLP; Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels; Azure Information Protection; Azure Rights Management Services; Double Key Encryption; and Customer Key.
- Experience tuning policies, authoring custom sensitive information types, using trainable classifiers, and integrating Microsoft Purview with Defender for Cloud Apps.
- Experience with Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management, Communication Compliance, eDiscovery Premium, and Data Lifecycle Management.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience protecting sensitive data from exposure to generative AI and large language model services, including Microsoft Purview controls for Microsoft 365 Copilot, DSPM for AI, AI Hub, Copilot interaction auditing, sensitivity-label enforcement on Copilot responses, CASB/SSE-based generative AI application discovery and blocking, prompt and response inspection, and policies preventing sensitive-content uploads or pasting into public AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude.
- Working knowledge of third-party data loss prevention and information rights management tools such as Symantec/Broadcom DLP, Forcepoint, Netskope, Zscaler, and Digital Guardian, including how they complement or integrate with Microsoft 365 controls.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform: Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Working knowledge of encryption standards, public key infrastructure, identity and access management, and Zero Trust principles.
- Familiarity with GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, NYDFS, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 regulatory frameworks.
- Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Design and operate data loss prevention policies across email, endpoints, and cloud services using Microsoft Purview, Microsoft 365, and Azure.
- Implement and tune data classification, labeling, and encryption frameworks aligned with firm policy and regulatory requirements.
- Manage information rights management, tokenization, and key management solutions.
- Design and enforce artificial intelligence data leakage prevention controls governing sensitive-data use with Microsoft 365 Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, and other generative artificial intelligence and large language model tools, including prompt and response monitoring, sensitivity-label enforcement, and blocking unsanctioned AI services.
- Investigate data security incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and lead containment and remediation.
- Monitor security information and event management, cloud access security broker, and data loss prevention alerts; triage events and escalate them according to the incident response plan.
- Partner with security operations center and forensics teams on insider threat and exfiltration investigations.
- Detect and respond to AI-related data exposure events, including sensitive data submitted to public large language models, prompt injection, and shadow AI usage.
- Support compliance with GDPR, CCPA, NYDFS Part 500, SOC 2, and client security obligations.
- Conduct data risk assessments for new applications, vendors, and AI/LLM use cases.
- Maintain evidence and artifacts for internal and external audits.
- Contribute to the firm's AI governance program by aligning controls with NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001.
- Develop scripts and automations using PowerShell, Python, and KQL to scale data security operations.
- Integrate data security controls into CI/CD, SaaS onboarding, and identity workflows.
- Maintain documentation, runbooks, and control mappings.
- Industry certifications including SC-400 (Microsoft Information Protection Administrator), CISSP, CIPP, CCSP, AZ-500, or GIAC equivalents.
- Experience in a law firm, financial services, or other highly regulated environment.
- Scripting and automation proficiency using PowerShell, including Exchange Online, Compliance Center, and Graph PowerShell modules, Python, and KQL.
Milbank is a premier international law firm handling high-profile, complex corporate and financial matters. It works through an integrated, multi-office platform where 12 offices coordinate to handle cross-border transactions and disputes in areas like M&A, structured finance, banking, capital markets, project finance, litigation, and trusts and estates. It differentiates itself with its global reach and ability to marshal specialists across offices to manage large matters for top-tier clients. Its goal is to help major companies and financial institutions succeed by delivering seamless, coordinated legal solutions on a global scale.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
1865
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Milbank opened Chicago on August 24, 2026, hiring White & Case's Nadav Klugman.
- June 2026 associate salaries rose to $235,000, helping recruitment during BigLaw pay wars.
- California hired Milbank on July 13, 2026, for the Paramount-Warner Bros. antitrust fight.
What critics are saying
- Chicago pits Milbank against Simpson Thacher and Akin in partner bidding wars.
- Finance and renewables revenue depends on volatile project deal flow and rate-sensitive clients.
- A failed Chicago buildout would waste partner capital and expose lateral recruiting weakness.
What makes Milbank unique
- Milbank ranked 2026 Band 1 in Banking, Restructuring, CLOs, and Projects.
- Vault named Milbank 2026's #1 firm for Project Finance and Clean Tech.
- Neal Katyal, Gurbir Grewal, and 24 Lawdragon litigators strengthen appellate and enforcement depth.
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Milbank secures White & Case practice co-head for Chicago debut. Nadav Klugman, co-chair of White & Case's global project development and finance practice, joins to help launch Milbank's 12th global office 24 August 2026 Milbank is set to launch in Chicago and has brought on a White & Case practice co-head as its first partner in the city. Nadav Klugman has joined Milbank having co-led White & Case's global project development and finance practice to help open the new office - the firm's 12th globally. "We believe that Chicago can be an important new market for the firm to attract first-level talent that will allow us to better serve our clients," Milbank chairman, Scott Edelman, said in a statement. Advertisement Edelman added Klugman was "recognised as a star" in the energy transition sector, which he pointed to as a growing area for the firm. Chicago will mark Milbank's first new location since 2015, when it launched its foreign legal consultant office in Seoul, South Korea. Klugman, who has advised clients including BlackRock, Bank of America, KKR and Nomura, will be expected to help lead the new office. He was a partner at Mayer Brown before joining White & Case in 2024 and focuses his practice on energy transition and structured corporate solutions, particularly advising financial institutions and sponsors on project financings, private acquisitions and divestitures of renewable energy investments, and tax equity investments. LAW OVER BORDERS COMPARATIVE GUIDES Private Client Law Guide This second edition, written by leading private client legal specialists, provides an up-to-date juri... | 1yr. "Financings for renewable energy assets have increased at an unprecedented rate as the demand for energy continues to accelerate," Milbank global project, energy and infrastructure finance partner, Mike Duff, said. "Nadav's experience will meaningfully strengthen our ability to deliver the financing structures that our clients require and cement our position as the market's leading renewables platform." Last November Milbank also boosted its energy and infrastructure financing bench in its New York headquarters with partner Thomas Sines from Paul Hastings. His work spans project finance, debt capital markets, bank financings and corporate transactions across traditional and renewable energy, as well as digital infrastructure and data centre financings. The firm's Chicago move comes just a few weeks after Simpson Thacher & Bartlett opened an office in the city with a team of five private investment and family office partners hired from Kirkland & Ellis. Another recent entrant to the Chicago market is Akin Gump, which launched there last autumn with a four-partner real estate funds and infrastructure M&A team it hired earlier in 2025 from Mayer Brown.
Milbank to open Chicago office, adds leading energy partner Nadav Klugman. Monday, August 24, 2026 Milbank LLP is pleased to announce that Nadav Klugman has joined as a partner in the firm's Global Project, Energy & Infrastructure Finance Group. He will be based in the firm's Chicago office upon its opening. Mr. Klugman joins Milbank from White & Case, where he was a partner and co-head of the firm's Global Project Development and Finance Practice. "Nadav is one of the most highly regarded attorneys in the energy transition sector, and we are very pleased to welcome him to Milbank," said Milbank Chairman Scott Edelman. "Nadav is recognized as a star in this very exciting and growing area of our practice. We believe that Chicago can be an important new market for the firm to attract first-level talent that will allow us to better serve our clients." Mr. Klugman focuses his practice on a wide range of energy transition and structured corporate solutions, with a particular emphasis on advising financial institutions and sponsors on a wide range of project financings, private acquisitions/divestitures of renewable energy investments, and tax equity investments. "Nadav brings deep experience across the full spectrum of energy and power and structured corporate solutions, and we are thrilled to welcome him to Milbank," said Dan Bartfeld, Executive Committee member and chair of the firm's Global Project, Energy and Infrastructure Finance Group. "The digital infrastructure build-out has transformed the energy landscape, and as the renewable energy and digital sectors increasingly converge, our team - recognized as the preeminent legal advisor driving both digital infrastructure and renewables transactions - will be even better situated to support our clients on their largest and most important transactions." "Financings for renewable energy assets have increased at an unprecedented rate as the demand for energy continues to accelerate," commented Global Project, Energy and Infrastructure Finance partner Mike Duff. "Nadav's depth and breadth of experience will meaningfully strengthen our ability to deliver the sophisticated financing structures that our clients require and further cement our position as the market's leading renewables platform." "I am thrilled to join the Milbank team at this pivotal time as the global economy focuses increasingly upon energy transition, corporate solutions and the interplay with the digital expansion," said Mr. Klugman. "The firm's platform is unmatched, and I look forward to opening our Chicago office and advising clients on their transformational transactions." Mr. Klugman received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School and his B.A., summa cum laude, from Brandeis University. Analysis | Jobs | News
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Jones Day adds Milbank's APAC restructuring head in Sydney. Nicholas Dunstone marks Jones Day's fifth lateral partner hire in Australia this year 28 July 2026 Credit: Jones Day Jones Day has hired the head of Milbank's APAC restructuring practice in Sydney. Nicholas Dunstone has joined the firm's business restructuring and reorganisation practice as a partner, bringing more than 25 years' experience advising on complex cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters across the Asia-Pacific region and globally. Heather Lennox, who leads Jones Day's 100-lawyer business restructuring and reorganisation practice, said Dunstone's track record of representing creditors, distressed investors and debtors across multiple jurisdictions "gives him the ability to see restructurings from every angle". Advertisement Dunstone spent just over three years at Milbank as a partner working across Singapore and London. Before that, he spent 11 years as head of restructuring at hedge fund manager Asia Research & Capital Management in Hong Kong, and earlier practised at firms including Clifford Chance and legacy Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft. He is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of South Australia and NSW. Jones Day says it has recruited five partners since the start of 2026 and 13 since mid-2024, when it kicked off a growth strategy across areas including M&A, private equity, finance and disputes, as well as restructuring. Chris Lovrien, partner-in-charge of Jones Day's Australia region, said one focus of that growth push had been "to build a world-class practice representing financial institutions, investors and corporates in cross-border finance, private credit, distressed finance and work outs", adding that Dunstone's hire would support that aim. LAW OVER BORDERS COMPARATIVE GUIDES Enforcement of Judgments Law Guide This comparative guide offers a practical overview of the enforcement of judgments and arbitration awards across multiple jurisdictions... | 2mos. "Nick built one of the leading restructuring practices in Australia early in his career and went on to develop an extensive network across Asia-Pacific and global financial centres, which makes him a tremendous asset to our clients," said John Cooper, partner-in-charge of Jones Day's Sydney office. "His arrival will strengthen our ability to serve clients on complex cross-border restructuring matters that connect Sydney to Singapore, Hong Kong, London and beyond." Prominent recruits include a three-partner Melbourne litigation team which joined from Corrs Chambers Westgarth in March - Matthew Critchley, Alicia Salvo and Brendon Clarke - while class action defence specialist Christine Tran joined from HSF Kramer in October last year. However, the firm has also seen some departures from its disputes practice. Daniel Moloney joined Gilbert + Tobin in September 2025 in Melbourne; Sydney partner Holly Sara followed in his footsteps in December, while veteran litigator John Emmerig moved to Thomson Geer in January 2026. Milbank, meanwhile, has seen a number of senior exits across Asia this year, including the managing partner of its Seoul office, David Cho, who left for Dechert in Singapore in May. In February, partner Andrew Pendleton also joined Mayer Brown in Tokyo as head of project finance for EMEA and Asia, with a counsel and special counsel making the move with him.
Givens Pursley is pleased to welcome Jane Edwards! July 15, 2026 Givens Pursley is proud to announce that Jane Edwards has joined the firm as an associate in its Business, Finance & Banking, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Real Estate and Land Use practice groups. She advises clients on commercial lending and other financing transactions, as well as corporate and real estate matters. Before joining Givens Pursley, Jane was an associate in the New York office of Milbank LLP, where her practice focused on complex financing transactions. She earned her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and her Bachelor of Commerce from Queen's University.