Reiley Porter is an associate in the in the firm’s Privacy + Data Security and National Security practice groups. She is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.

Reiley’s practice focuses on advising clients on significant cybersecurity incidents and other sensitive matters relating to U.S. domestic and international cybercrime, national security, and crisis management, including matters that involve multijurisdictional investigations and significant media attention. Reiley has substantial experience managing third-party forensic and internal investigations, e-discovery efforts, and communications both with relevant regulatory agencies and impacted stakeholders.

She has successfully defended clients in numerous regulatory inquiries regarding data security practices, including investigations by state attorneys general and international regulators following data security incidents. Reiley also has considerable experience advising clients on the sanctions regulations of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, particularly sanctions programs related to Russia and Iran.

Reiley maintains a robust pro bono practice with a focus on national security and cybersecurity. Among her past pro bono experience, Reiley was a key member of a team providing urgent sanctions advice in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and supported a team defending the civil rights of Georgia voters related to Georgia’s adoption of an unreliable election system.

Reiley received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was a student advocate in the Cyberlaw Clinic and a citations manager and editor for the Journal of Law & Technology. She has particular experience advising on and writing about issues at the intersection of law and technology. While in law school, Reiley also worked at the Federal Communications Commission in the Office of General Counsel. 

Before law school, Reiley graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in computer science from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and worked in a National Science Foundation-funded research lab developing the Quorum programming language, an evidence-oriented language developed with accessibility in mind.