Justin Herring

About

Justin Herring is a partner at Mayer Brown, practicing in the firm's Cybersecurity & Data Privacy, Financial Services Regulatory & Enforcement, and Global Investigations & White Collar Defense groups. He advises on global incident response, regulatory enforcement and related litigation, including for crypto and fintech clients. He was Executive Deputy Superintendent of the Cybersecurity Division at the New York State Department of Financial Services, the first leader of that division, and previously spent nine years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, serving as inaugural chief of the Cybercrimes Unit in the District of New Jersey. He holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. At Legal Cyber Academy he teaches on the New York DFS cybersecurity regulations, blockchain and cryptocurrency, and managing cybersecurity risk.