Paul Hastings Picks Up Homeland Security’s Cyber Lawyer

Paul Hastings announced it has hired Robert Silvers, the outgoing assistant secretary for cyber policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Silvers joined the Washington, D.C. office this week as a partner in the firm’s privacy and cybersecurity group and its white collar group.

It’s not Silvers’ first stint in private practice, but his specialty has shifted: before entering government in 2011, he had been focused solely on white collar crime as an associate at O’Melveny & Myers.

“Cybersecurity was an area where over the course of my tenure [at DHS], the interest and the priority escalated sharply,” said Silvers. “That’s because ...