Mullen Coughlin, Cybersecurity & Data Privacy

Mullen Coughlin LLC Partner Carolyn Purwin Ryan participated in an AM Best webinar alongside Munich Re’s Robert Barlow and Maria Long on October 17.

The webinar, “Loss Trends in Cyber Liability Insurance,” provides viewers with insights into cyber incidents, including ransomware incidents, and with mitigation strategies so that your organization’s data is protected from various cyber threats.

You can view the webinar here.

Mullen Coughlin LLC is proud to announce the promotion of Incident Response attorneys Craig Steen and Furrah Qureshi to Partner, effective October 1, 2024.

Craig Steen joined Mullen Coughlin as an Associate in April 2021. He currently serves as Breach Counsel to organizations across all industry sectors, assisting them with responding to and investigating data privacy and security incidents of all types. His clients have praised him for his thoughtfulness when dealing with sensitive legal issues and he’s known around the Firm for his exceptional writing and organizational skills – necessary for communicating with numerous incident response stakeholders including cyber insurance carriers and brokers, law enforcement, DFIR firms and regulatory agencies. He received his J.D. from Cornell Law School and is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania.

Furrah Qureshi joined Mullen Coughlin in May 2021 after a 5+ year stint as an Assistant District Attorney for the Montgomery County (PA) District Attorney’s Office. Since joining the Firm, Furrah’s clients have relied on her to not only counsel them on their legal and regulatory obligations stemming from data privacy and security incidents, but also for her attention to detail and keen understanding of nuance in cyber matters and with providing a steady and professional hand during the incident response process. She received her J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law and is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania.

Mullen Coughlin LLC welcomed three (3) new associates to its Incident Response practice group this past September – Alvin Barskiy, Brendan Brown and Elena Valentine.

Alvin Barskiy is based in New Jersey and serves as Breach Counsel to organizations who have been victimized by data privacy and security incidents. He brings over five (5) years of legal experience in data privacy and incident response, having spent the beginning of his career as an associate attorney at a full-service law firm in their Cybersecurity, Data Privacy and Incident Response practice area. There, he gained unique insights into the various types of data privacy and security incidents and relevant laws and regulations that impact a variety of industries, in particular the commercial real estate industry. Alvin is fluent in Russian. He’s licensed to practice in New Jersey.

Brendan Brown, based in Devon, PA, joins the firm after serving as a Law Clerk in the Cumberland County, NJ Court’s Civil Division. He previously assisted small businesses with research related to data privacy laws and regulations and with drafting website terms-of-use and privacy policies while a “student attorney” at Villanova University’s Clinic for Law and Entrepreneurship. He received his J.D. from the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law and is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania.

Elena Valentine, based in Devon, earned her J.D. from Rutgers Law School and previously served as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Hon. Michael R. Ostrowski, Jr. of the New Jersey Superior Court. While a J.D. candidate at Rutgers and Managing Research Editor for the Computer and Technology Law Journal, Elena had her article regarding biometric data collection and social media published in 2023. She is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania.