For Alexandra Logan ’26, the path to Maine Law was shaped by a career that kept pulling her closer to the fast-moving world of privacy and cybersecurity law.
A Maine native who grew up in the Brunswick area and attended Bowdoin College, Logan began her professional career at Unum, working as an underwriter focused on risk management. It was there, during the early days of GDPR and the rapidly evolving global privacy landscape, that she first found herself drawn into privacy-related work.
From there, her career continued to evolve. She later worked for the antitrust division of the United States Department of Justice, where she worked on matters involving major online platforms and saw how questions surrounding privacy and data protection increasingly intersected with competition law.
Soon after, a recruiter reached out about an opportunity at Cooley LLP within the firm’s cybersecurity and data privacy practice group in Washington, D.C. The position immersed her in the business advisory side of privacy and cybersecurity law, helping companies navigate an increasingly complex patchwork of state privacy laws, cybersecurity obligations, and emerging regulatory frameworks.
“I really developed a passion for it because it is always so in flux,” Logan said. “It’s such a fast-moving area of the law. There were always new laws popping up, new cybersecurity issues, and very interesting legal questions.”
When it came time to apply to law school, Logan knew exactly what she was looking for: a school with a strong privacy law program and a place where she could continue building toward a career in the field. With help from her then-girlfriend, now wife, she re-discovered Maine Law through a list published by the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
“Maine Law was at the top of the list,” Logan said. “It felt serendipitous to be able to come home and practice the exact thing I wanted to do. It ended up being one of the best experiences of my life.”
At Maine Law, Logan found that her understanding of privacy law quickly expanded beyond technical compliance and statutory analysis. Courses focused on transactional law, risk management, and corporate counseling helped her better understand how legal advice functions within the realities of business decision-making.
That broader perspective became even more tangible through her externship with IDEXX Laboratories, where she began working during the spring of her second year and continued through the summer and her third year.
“That has been one of the more valuable experiences I’ve had in law school,” Logan said. “It allowed me to take what I learned in class and apply it in a corporate setting.”
The experience gave her the opportunity to work directly with an in-house legal team and contribute substantive work while still in law school.
Outside the classroom and externship program, Logan also became involved with the Student Journal of Information Privacy Law, serving on staff during her second year before becoming a managing editor as a 3L. She says the experience sharpened both her legal writing and leadership skills.
Just as meaningful, she says, was the collaborative culture surrounding the journal and the law school more broadly.
“One thing really special about Maine Law is the community and how small we are,” Logan said. “We have faculty who genuinely care about students and want to see us succeed.”
For Logan, Maine Law’s greatest strength may be the way it prepares students to think critically in fields that are constantly changing.
“Maine Law gave us a solid foundation for how to analyze the law and apply it,” she said. “Especially in privacy and AI, where everything is evolving so quickly, having that framework is incredibly important.”
And while privacy law may be complex and rapidly shifting, Logan says Maine Law also gave her confidence in something more enduring: the people around her.
“It sounds silly to say it’s the vibe,” she said with a laugh. “But honestly, we have something very special up here–something unique to Maine Law.”
