Simone Herbert-Lowe, Principal

With more than 30 years of experience in both private and corporate legal practice, Simone’s expertise encompasses insurance, risk management, professional liability, dispute resolution, and privacy law. Simone specialises in supporting businesses’ cyber resilience through legal advisory and education services.

Simone founded Law & Cyber in 2018 to help empower Australian individuals and businesses to protect themselves from cybercrime. Simone has acted for individuals and businesses impacted by cyber events and email fraud including: advising on and defending claims against professionals arising from cyber events, data breaches and email fraud; advice on policy coverage under cyber insurance policies; obligations to clients; legal claims against a managed service provider and other professional services firms; and she has advised organisations on uplifting their cyber resilience profile including through increased contractual protections.

Simone regularly presents to businesses on cyber risk; she facilitates cyber incident tabletop exercises; and she has given expert written opinion in multi-million dollar Supreme Court proceedings involving allegations of email-enabled fraud. She is most proud of having educated more than 10,000 Australians about cyber risk.

Simone is a sought-after speaker and presenter with an MBA (Executive) from AGSM, a Master of Law & Management from AGSM/UNSW Law, and bachelor's degrees in Law and Arts from UNSW. Her outstanding leadership was recognised with AGSM’s prestigious Wanbil Lee Prize for Ethical Leadership in Business in 2016 and the Innovator of the Year (Individual) Award at the Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Awards in 2022. In both 2022 and 2023 Simone was selected as a finalist in the Security category of the Relativity Innovation Awards in Chicago, and for Thought Leadership in the Women in Law Awards.

As the former Manager of Strategy & Innovation and Senior Claims Solicitor at a leading professional indemnity insurer for lawyers, Simone handled some of the early cases involving cyber events impacting law practices. She played a pivotal role in the company’s innovative response to cyber risk, including the launch of its group cyber risk policy for more than 6,000 law firms, and is regularly engaged to write for and present to other lawyers about professional risk.

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