Mullen Coughlin, Cybersecurity & Data Privacy

On Thursday, June 12, Mullen Coughlin LLC attended the 2025 Zywave Cyber Risk Awards in New York City. After an evening of acknowledgements and celebration with many of our cyber insurance partners, we are thrilled to announced that we won Cyber Law Firm of the Year. Voted on by nearly 10,000 cyber industry peers, including carriers, brokers, clients, industry partners, government officials and colleagues, we are honored! Mullen Coughlin remains singularly focused on data privacy and security Incident Response, Advisory Compliance, Litigation and Regulatory Investigation legal services, all under the umbrella of cyber insurance.

The Cyber Law Firm of the Year award recognizes the law firm that has been “unparalleled in its work within the cyber insurance space in 2024.” Having handled over 4,000 data privacy and security incidents across the United States, United Kingdom and other international jurisdictions, as well as having counseled over 500 organizations with pre-incident and proactive Advisory Compliance solutions and defended over 500 third-party litigation and formal regulatory investigation matters in 2024, we remain solely committed to cyber. 

Mullen Coughlin CEO John F. Mullen and Partner Gregory Bautista were also nominated for individual awards; John was nominated for the Cyber Visionary Award and Greg for the Cyber Risk Industry Person of the Year – Attorney award. While not winners in these categories, the nominations signify the contributions and expertise these individuals, and the Firm, contribute to the cyber insurance industry and its insureds.

The full list of award winners from Zywave can be found here.

Mullen Coughlin welcomed three (3) new associate attorneys to the Firm in May 2025 – covering 3 states and both the Incident Response and Advisory Compliance practice groups.

Daniel Yosef, an experienced data privacy attorney and Breach Coach, joins the Incident Response practice group. He has counseled hundreds of organizations across virtually every industry sector in investigating and responding to data privacy and security incidents. He brings a wealth of knowledge to the Firm and practice, particularly as it relates to state and federal data breach notification laws, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and its amendment, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). Daniel received his J.D. from Loyola Law School and is licensed to practice in California.

Emily Cannon joins the Firm in Maryland after several years as a cyber strategic planning and policy specialist federal contractor working closely with the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO) CMMC Program Management Office. Emily brings to Mullen Coughlin her extensive experience and achievements with the federal government, including the development of a new federal rule relating to cybersecurity standards for all DoD contractors. Emily, previously serving with the United States Marine Corps. as a Signals Intelligence Analyst, is fluent in Arabic and also has a TS//SCI Security Clearance. She received her J.D. from the University of Baltimore Law School and is licensed to practice in Maryland.

Brooks Goode joins the Advisory Practice Group in Colorado. A U.S. Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), Brooks focuses his practice on counseling organizations across all industry sectors with pre-incident and proactive data privacy, information security and incident response preparedness. His experience as a Senior Privacy Analyst for a global telecommunications company, where he drafted privacy impact and threshold assessments and determined privacy risk levels based on CCPA/CPRA and GDPR, allows him to effectively counsel his clients on their development of comprehensive compliance programs related to their industry group sector, location, size and cyber risk profile. He received his J.D. from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and is licensed to practice in Colorado, Illinois and Missouri.

Continuing our long-standing relationship with NetDiligence, Mullen Coughlin is proud to support the 2025 “Cyber Risk Summit” in San Diego from May 13-15 as a Silver-level sponsor.

During the first day of the conference, Managing Member Jennifer Coughlin joins a panel of cyber insurance and cyber law professionals on the “2024 Claims & Losses Review” panel. Using recent insights and statistics from almost 1,300 data privacy and security incidents handled as of March 2025 (and over 4,000 in 2024), Jenn and the panel examine a variety of cyber claims and their reported losses incurred from various data privacy and security incidents. The panel will also review NetDiligence’s most recent Cyber Claims Study.

In addition to Jenn, Jim Monagle, Carolyn Purwin Ryan and Greg Bautista are attending NetDiligence.

Learn more about the San Diego Cyber Risk Summit here.