Robert Kang, the in-house cyber counsel at electric utility Southern California Edison, is the power sector’s first in-house counsel focusing on cyber national security. Kang has worked with Loyola Law School to help design and launch the first cyber and privacy law concentration offered in Southern California. Kang, who is one of the finalists for Innovator of the Year in the California Leaders in Tech Law and Innovation Awards, explained to The Recorder what it’s like to be a pioneer in a growing field of the law.

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