Ex-Justice Leader Carlin Seeks Paul Weiss Growth in Cyber Work

John Carlin, a former top Justice Department national security official who joined Paul Weiss, said he expects to help his new firm’s cyber group grow as companies are inundated with risks.

Cyber-predators are attacking corporations in ways the companies haven’t seen before, spurring a greater need for preparation, Carlin said in an interview after joining Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.

Federal agencies in coming months and years are going to provide assistance, he said, in part to answer the question, “How do we share cyber information between corporations and government?”

Paul Weiss’s Tuesday announcement that Carlin would be a ...