Taylor Sargent, practicing in the Incident Response practice group, is an Associate attorney and serves as Breach Counsel for organizations who have experienced a data privacy and security incident. Working closely with the victim organization, cyber insurance claim teams, law enforcement and other third-party incident response stakeholders, Taylor guides the organization through all the phases of an incident response from identification and containment to post-incident regulatory investigation and litigation.
After a real or suspected data privacy and security incident, and once the incident is mitigated and there are no additional threats to the organizations operations, Taylor assists in determining which, if any, data privacy and information laws, statutes or regulations may be implicated as a result of the incident. Based on this information, as well as digital forensic evidence gleaned from a third-patty forensic investigation, he provides legal analyses and effectuates any obligations that may arise. This includes law enforcement reporting and any individual, business partner or media notification, as well as post-incident provisions (credit and identity monitoring, public relations/communications, etc.).
Taylor also assists organizations in responding to state, federal and industry-related regulatory agency investigations.
Taylor was a Law Clerk with Mullen Coughlin prior to joining as an Associate. As a Law Clerk, he assisted multiple teams of attorneys in legal research and analysis into various data privacy and information security laws and regulations, as well as with forensic and data mining analysis in determining which laws and/or regulations are triggered from specific incidents.
He received his J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law. There, he gained valuable privacy and technology experience as a Fellow of the Institute for Law, Innovation and Technology. While in this role, Taylor researched international stances on cybercrime, global trends in digital ID registration systems and attended the United Nations’ Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime’s concluding session in New York City. Taylor also took part in Temple’s Global Legal Scholars program in Tokyo, Japan, where he took coursework in transnational legal issues such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other privacy laws and international sanctions compliance; he also completed an internship at TMI Associates, one of the five largest law firms in Japan.
Taylor was also a student member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).