Maya Song is a partner in Ropes & Gray's data, privacy & cybersecurity practice, based in the firm's Washington, D.C. office. A nationally recognized leader in cybersecurity, data privacy, and government enforcement, Maya brings over a decade of leadership experience at the Department of Justice (DOJ) to advising clients on complex cyber, national security, and white-collar matters.
Maya most recently served as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA). As the U.S. Attorney’s top deputy, she supervised approximately 300 prosecutors, civil litigators, and staff, and oversaw all of the office’s criminal and civil investigations. She led the office’s response to high-profile national security and white-collar cases and coordinated with senior leadership at DOJ and law enforcement agencies.
Before that, Maya served as Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General. As the cyber counselor to the second-highest ranking DOJ official, Maya advised department senior leadership on significant cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, and AI matters, and she coordinated novel and cutting-edge cyber enforcement actions, investigations, and disruption operations across DOJ and with interagency partners. Because she was responsible for formulating and implementing department guidance, strategy, and policy to combat cybercrime and enforce cybersecurity compliance, she worked with nearly every DOJ component in this role.
Over a decade at EDVA serving as Deputy Criminal Chief, Cybercrime Unit Chief, and Assistant U.S. Attorney, Maya supervised hundreds of prosecutions and investigations involving corporate fraud and cyber-enabled fraud; ransomware attacks and state-sponsored computer intrusions; offenses affecting national security, public integrity, vulnerable victims; and other offenses. She prosecuted notorious hackers, led disruption operations with law enforcement against state-sponsored threat actors, and first-chaired or directly supervised fourteen EDVA trials. Before government service, she practiced at two AmLaw 100 firms and clerked for the Honorable Carl E. Stewart on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.