Seth P. Berman

Seth P. Berman leads Nutter’s Privacy and Data Security practice group and is a member of the firm’s White Collar Defense practice group. Corporations, boards of directors, and executives rely on Seth’s advice and counsel in each of these areas of expertise. Seth is regularly engaged to assist corporations and their boards in addressing the legal and strategic aspects of data privacy laws and cybersecurity risk, and to prepare for and respond to data breaches, hacking, ransomware attempts, and other cyberattacks. Seth also routinely represents corporate and individual clients in white collar criminal and complex civil cases, including clients facing indictment or dealing with civil or criminal government investigations, subpoenas, or other requests for information. Additionally, organizations and their boards frequently engage Seth to conduct internal investigations on their behalf.

Before joining Nutter, Seth led the Boston, New York, and Washington offices of a leading cybersecurity and digital forensics investigations consulting firm. He also spent six years in London as the head of the consulting firm’s international practice, where he regularly assisted clients with international criminal and digital forensic investigations. Earlier in his career, Seth was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts, where he investigated and prosecuted economic crimes and was one of the leading computer crimes prosecutors in the Commonwealth. Seth previously served as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office and was a member of the New York Electronic Crimes Task Force and was a partner at an international law firm specializing in white collar criminal defense and civil litigation. Seth obtained his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and earned his J.D. from Cornell Law School, where he served as an editor of the Cornell Law Review.

Seth is a recognized thought leader in cybersecurity and criminal law. He has appeared on television in both the U.S. and the U.K. to comment on cybercrime issues and has written extensively on the subject. Seth teaches a Cyber Crime Law class at Harvard Law School.