Please Submit Your Nominations for Cybersecurity Docket’s ‘Incident Response 50’ for 2025

Will your colleague/outside counsel/other rockstar lawyer in your life be angry at you if you don’t nominate them for Cybersecurity Docket’s ‘Incident Response 50’ for 2025? Or just disappointed?

Let’s not find out!

At the conclusion of Incident Response Forum Masterclass 2025, Cybersecurity Docket will announce our “Incident Response 50” for 2025 – our list of the 50 best Incident Response legal and compliance professionals worldwide. Specifically, our list will honor 50 incident response attorneys and compliance professionals who not only have the right stuff to manage a data breach response, but are also the kind of professionals critical to have on speed-dial when the inevitable data breach occurs.

Cybersecurity Docket created its inaugural list in 2016, and has updated the list annually since 2018 (see the list from 2024 and prior years here). 2025 marks the ninth edition of this list of the best incident response lawyers in the business.

The list is guided by a simple question: Who would you hire if your company suddenly found itself the victim of a data breach?

In addition, there are three threshold requirements:

• Candidates for the Incident Response 50 must be in the private sector for at least the past two years.

• Candidates for the Incident Response 50 must have a practice that is dedicated primarily to data breach response work.

• Candidates for the Incident Response 50 must be attorneys (as opposed to accountants, consultants or other experts).

If you would like to nominate someone for the Incident Response 50, please let us know in 200 words or less why your nominee should be included in this extraordinary group.

Please email your nomination to [email protected] with the Subject line “IR 50”. The deadline for submissions is March 21, 2025 and we will announce the 50 honorees at a ceremony immediately following Incident Response Forum Masterclass 2025, which will take place on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 (an in-person event at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C., and also available via live-stream online).

Thanks for your nominations!