Can a good lawyer mitigate a failure to prevent data breaches?
<p>I was curious how important it is for a software startup to seek legal council during the fundraising/growth stages. Basically, I don't want to be up a creek if we have some data breach or hack. How helpful could a lawyer be in mitigating such an event? I.e., does it make more sense to seek the best CS guys to protect our data and prevent a breach in the first place, or can we defer the investment in prevention and rely instead on lawyers to recover damages in the event of a breach?</p>

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