As demand for data security and privacy expertise remains high, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has hired Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath cybersecurity partner and practice co-leader Paul Luehr.

Luehr joined the firm as a partner in Washington, D.C., after more than six years at Faegre Drinker. He was previously a managing director at global cyber consulting firm Stroz Friedberg, where he led security experts on some of the largest breaches on record. He also served as an assistant U.S. attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice and led the first cross-agency internet team for the Federal Trade Commission earlier in his career.