The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Cyber Lawyers

We are honored to introduce The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Cyber Lawyers.

This is our 2^nd edition of this guide, which recognizes world leaders in privacy, data, security, incident response, and the deals and lawsuits that revolve around all things Cyber.

Jane Horvath of Gibson Dunn has emerged as one of the gurus of the practice – no surprise given her roles in-house at Google and Apple, as the Department of Justice’s first Chief Privacy Counsel and Civil Liberties Officer, and, let’s not forget, her early stint as Assistant General Counsel at AOL, where she helped draft the company’s first privacy policies.

Jennifer Everett of Alston & Bird brings remarkable breadth to her practice advising on regulatory compliance, enforcement and transactions in data privacy, cybersecurity, health care and emerging technologies. She exemplifies the range of regulations companies must navigate and parse, including state, federal and international privacy laws concerning data protection, privacy laws, biometrics, children’s, workplace and consumer privacy.

Covington’s Alexander Berengaut brings that panoply of knowledge to court. Specifically, of late he’s been out front for TikTok defending challenges to its ability to operate in the U.S. That’s just one exercise of government power he’s helped clients including Microsoft and Xiaomi Corporation face in these complex, often bewildering times. At the same time, he’s led Covington teams defending tech companies against state privacy and other litigation.

Those are just three of the remarkable lawyers featured here, but their stories offer a prism of the practice that provides the framework to most of our daily lives. They advise the leaders of companies and interface with government officials, but the products are enmeshed in the daily lives of billions of people.

Autonomous cars, biometrics, California privacy litigation, data scraping. It’s an A through Z of issues that underscore our lives. And these are the lawyers who protect the companies and consumers just trying to move ahead.

They inspire and defy the type of constructs the law typically provides, finding the legal routes to create and build while still protecting some core of humanity.

To create this guide we weighed nominations, independent research and views of peers. Those noted by an asterisk are esteemed members of our Hall of Fame.