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Coverage across state and federal laws and international cybersecurity regulations as well as the measures and technologies used to comply with them. Also cover breaches impacting law firms and find the legal angle for those covering corporations. Litigation ensuing from breaches is covered as well.
By Mike Neighbors | December 29, 2023
As 2023 comes to an end, we're looking back at significant litigation trends surfaced by Law.com Radar.
6 minute read
By Cassandre Coyer | December 28, 2023
From higher e-discovery costs to unprepared judges, Legaltech News highlights some of the key risks that deepfakes pose to legal professionals going into 2024.
1 minute read
By Kasvi Sehgal | December 18, 2023
The same attackers were behind a data breach at Allen & Overy last month, with experts at the time suggesting the firm may have to pay out several million to avoid confidential information being published.
2 minute read
By Linda A. Thompson | December 12, 2023
Lawyers say the landmark AI legislation agreed upon by EU officials on Friday will generate extensive work for Big Law, with multijurisdictional law firms that have strong regulatory practices best positioned to ride the wave of advisory and compliance work the new bill is expected to create.
5 minute read
By Jack Womack | November 29, 2023
A new report by PwC stresses that law firms should incorporate 'human cyber risk' into their cyber strategies.
2 minute read
By Jack Womack | November 27, 2023
One person said the removal could mean the firm has paid a ransom to the hacking group, which is one of the most notorious in the world and is viewed as having strong links to Russia.
2 minute read
By Paul Hodkinson | November 24, 2023
An attack by one of the world's most infamous ransomware groups has left the law firm in a quandary, and time is running out, writes the London Lawyer.
4 minute read
By Jack Womack | November 23, 2023
A&O faces having confidential data published on the dark web following an attack by ransomware group LockBit—a cyber security expert explains how the firm's merger with Shearman could well have caught the hackers' attention.
7 minute read
By Krishnan Nair | November 12, 2023
Cyber attacks on A&O and Kirkland, as well as changing regulations, may engender an age in which large firms no longer hold client data, writes The Global Lawyer.
5 minute read
By Jack Womack | November 10, 2023
One cyber security expert has said that LockBit is responsible for an estimated 40% of all ransomware infections worldwide.
4 minute read
By Amanda O'Brien | April 12, 2024
The firm was able to withstand the exit of 26 partners who moved to Goodwin Procter in the first quarter.
4 minute read
By Amanda Bronstad | April 11, 2024
"This mass tort is going to end up being one of the most important litigations in recent history," said R. Brent Wisner, a partner at Wisner Baum.
3 minute read
By Michelle Kao and Nate Garhart | April 10, 2024
The court's ruling in California Privacy Protection Agency v. The Superior Court of Sacramento County overturned the lower court's June 2023 decision to temporarily strip the CPPA of its enforcement capabilities, thereby enabling the CPPA to immediately resume enforcement activities and, further, impacting future CPPA rulemaking and enforcement practices.
5 minute read
By Joshua A. Mooney | April 9, 2024
Liability under state WESCA claims turns on whether there was there an interception of a communication (and if so, where that interception took place), and whether the party whose communication was intercepted had granted consent. This article focuses on the third element—consent.
7 minute read
By Scott Warren | April 3, 2024
Cyber attacks on executives have been steadily growing more sophisticated and costly, most recently imploring deep fake techniques. Here are some tips to avoid suffering losses from deep fake scams.
7 minute read
By Adolfo Pesquera | April 2, 2024
At least 10 lawsuits have been filed within the past few days in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas-Dallas Division.
4 minute read
By Adolfo Pesquera | April 2, 2024
On March 17, another cybercrime actor known as MajorNelson posted on an internet forum the entire dataset of the stolen database from the 2021 data incident, the "Dean v. AT&T" complaint states.
4 minute read
By Jeffrey N. Rosenthal and Amanda M. Noonan | April 2, 2024
GIPA litigation remains in its early stages, but the possibility of exorbitant statutory damages—$2,500 per negligent violation, up to $15,000 per intentional or reckless violation—could make GIPA the next major trend in privacy class action litigation.
7 minute read
By Olivia J. Greer, Catherine Kim and Jeeyoon Chung | April 2, 2024
In December, the SEC's new cybersecurity rules went into effect, requiring detailed reporting by public companies regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and—perhaps most notably—incidents. This article offers a practical guide to navigating the new disclosure requirements and an overview of how some companies have already begun to respond, as well as analysis of the SEC's rule in the context of a broader trend of regulatory reporting requirements
10 minute read
By Brian Lee | March 29, 2024
The new rules, set to come into effect on April 15, have prompted a conversation over how DFS will approach their enforcement.
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