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Cybersecurity & Privacy

  • May 29, 2025

    Kilpatrick Tech Ace Returns To Nelson Mullins In Atlanta

    Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP has brought back a Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP partner to its Atlanta office, strengthening its corporate practice and its tech industry group with an experienced technology and privacy attorney, the firm announced Thursday.

  • May 30, 2025

    CORRECTED: Pa. Justices Keep Block On Voting Machine Data-Sharing

    Pennsylvania's Supreme Court left intact a lower court's ruling that blocked a county from sharing data it gleaned from unauthorized third-party inspections of its voting machines after the 2020 election. Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated which Commonwealth Court order was affirmed. The error has been corrected.

  • May 29, 2025

    Shein Eyes HK Listing After London Snag, Plus More Rumors

    Fast-fashion retailer Shein intends to list in Hong Kong after its plans to go public in London fell apart, messaging app Telegram is set to raised $1.7 billion through an upsized bond offering, while Elon Musk's Neuralink Corp. raised $600 million in a deal that values the brain-implant startup at $9 billion.

  • May 28, 2025

    Insurers Get Meta MDL Coverage Fight Kicked Back To Del.

    A California federal judge has ruled that Meta Platforms' sprawling dispute with dozens of insurers over coverage for personal injury multidistrict litigation belongs in Delaware state court, where two Hartford Insurance Group units first sued, rejecting Meta's claims Hartford acted in bad faith in suing in Delaware, along with other arguments.

  • May 28, 2025

    Wellness App User Must Arbitrate Video Data-Sharing Suit

    A California federal judge has shipped to arbitration a proposed class action accusing the operators of the meditation app Balance of unlawfully sharing subscribers' video-viewing data and other personal information with a third-party software provider, finding that the user leading the suit had agreed to arbitrate his claims when signing up for the service. 

  • May 28, 2025

    Duke Energy Settles Proposed Class Action Over Data Breach

    Duke Energy has reached a deal in a proposed class action alleging that customers' sensitive personal information was exposed in a data breach last year, according to a joint notice the parties filed in North Carolina federal court.

  • May 28, 2025

    Justices Seek SG's Take On Falun Gong Case Against Cisco

    The U.S. Supreme Court has asked the solicitor general to weigh in on an Alien Tort Statute suit revived by the Ninth Circuit and lodged by a class of Falun Gong practitioners alleging that Cisco Systems aided in the Chinese government's crackdown on the religious movement.

  • May 28, 2025

    IRS Coinbase Summons Challenged As Overbroad, Unlawful

    A Connecticut man wants a California federal court to quash an Internal Revenue Service summons issued to Coinbase for his personal financial documents, arguing that the agency's request was inappropriate and violates his privacy rights.

  • May 28, 2025

    2nd Circ. Backs Credit One Win In FCRA Investigation Suit

    The Second Circuit on Wednesday declined to revive a New York woman's lawsuit against Credit One Bank for allegedly failing to investigate identity theft claims against her mother, with a panel agreeing with the lower court that no reasonable investigation required under federal law conducted by the bank would have yielded different results.

  • May 28, 2025

    Redgrave Hires E-Discovery Co.'s Microsoft 365 Tech Pro

    E-discovery and information law firm Redgrave LLP has hired one of the minds behind the creation of e-discovery company Lighthouse's Microsoft compliance and security compliance team, touting what the firm calls his "niche practice built to address the impact of cloud computing on eDiscovery and information governance."

  • May 28, 2025

    NRA President's Attys Want Out Of Election-Inspection Case

    The lawyers representing the recently elected president of the National Rifle Association in a contract dispute stemming from investigations of the 2020 election are asking a Michigan federal court to excuse them from the case, after their client allegedly heard from his codefendant and stopped talking to them.

  • May 27, 2025

    Retailer To Face Privacy Suit Instead Of Arbitration Claims

    More than 2,400 Janie & Jack website visitors pursuing arbitration claims over the children clothing retailer's allegedly unlawful online tracking practices have agreed to drop these individual grievances and instead lodge a single proposed class action to press their allegations, according to a notice filed in California federal court. 

  • May 27, 2025

    Judge Taps Attys To Lead Ex-UMich Coach Hacking Suits

    Eight lawsuits accusing the University of Michigan of failing to safeguard the private images and data of thousands of student-athletes from a former assistant football coach have been consolidated by a federal judge, who also appointed interim lead counsel.

  • May 27, 2025

    Bankrupt 23andMe To Delist Stock After Regeneron Deal

    Bankrupt genetic testing provider 23andMe Inc. said Tuesday it will delist its stock from the Nasdaq exchange, following Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s agreement last week to buy the defunct company.

  • May 27, 2025

    FCC Mulls Adding Connected Vehicle Tech To Covered List

    The Federal Communications Commission is thinking about adding more technologies to the list of those whose components are banned if they come from China or Russia, but it wants to hear what the industry thinks first.

  • May 27, 2025

    Debate Over Moratorium On State AI Oversight Goes To Senate

    Before going on recess, the U.S. House of Representatives passed their budget reconciliation bill that includes a hotly debated moratorium on states' enforcement of artificial intelligence-related legislation, and the debate continues as the bill heads to the U.S. Senate, where at least a few Republicans have voiced opposition.

  • May 27, 2025

    DOJ Wants Google Docs Analyzing Potential Ad Tech Breakup

    Enforcers are asking a Virginia federal court for access to Google documents analyzing a potential break up of the company's ad tech business, as the court considers what remedies to impose after finding Google monopolized key ad tech markets.

  • May 27, 2025

    Crypto Exec's IRS Privacy Appeal Tossed By 5th Circ.

    A cryptocurrency executive who sought to quash IRS summonses for his bank records must wait at least until the U.S. government decides whether to bring legal proceedings against him before he can appeal a ruling denying his request to block the agency's demands, the Fifth Circuit said Tuesday.

  • May 23, 2025

    Law360 Reveals Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar

    This past year, a handful of attorneys secured billions of dollars in settlements and judgments for both classes and individual plaintiffs against massive companies and organizations like Facebook, Dell, the National Association of Realtors, Johnson & Johnson, UFC and Credit Suisse, earning them recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2025.

  • May 23, 2025

    9th Circ. Mulls 'Two John Smiths' In Classmates.com Class

    Ninth Circuit judges Friday scrutinized a vast class of Californians whose identities were allegedly misappropriated by yearbooks platform Classmates.com, discussing ways to distinguish people with the same names and the case's implications for internet search giants — as well as how one judge's class of '62 yearbook might be a small part of the litigation.

  • May 23, 2025

    Feds Charge Russian With Qakbot Malware Scheme

    Federal prosecutors have unveiled charges and a $24 million cryptocurrency forfeiture action in California federal court against a man suspected of being the lead developer of the Qakbot malware that has infected hundreds of thousands of devices for ransomware schemes.

  • May 23, 2025

    Meta, App Maker Flo Can't Escape All Of Privacy Class Action

    A California federal judge ruled Thursday that Flo Health Inc. and Meta cannot escape all the claims in a class action brought by users of a menstrual cycle app who allege their privacy was violated, denying parts of both companies' summary judgment bids. 

  • May 23, 2025

    Banking Groups Want SEC To Pull Cyber Disclosure Mandates

    A group of banking trade associations has called on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to rescind a Biden-era mandate requiring public companies to disclose certain cybersecurity incidents, arguing it increases companies' risk when they fall victim to cyberattacks.

  • May 23, 2025

    Seattle Cancer Center Inks $11.5M Class Data Breach Deal

    A Washington state judge has given final approval to an $11.5 million class action settlement to end litigation against Seattle-based Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center over a 2023 data breach that exposed patient information, with the judge awarding $3.8 million in attorney fees in a deal class counsel values at more than $50 million.

  • May 23, 2025

    Coinbase Investor Sues Over Hack Fallout, UK Fine

    A Coinbase stockholder brought a proposed class action against the crypto exchange, claiming she and other investors felt the fallout after the firm suffered a headline-grabbing data breach and an earlier run-in with a U.K. regulator.

Expert Analysis

  • Getting Ahead Of The SEC's Continued Focus On Cyber, AI

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is showing it will continue to scrutinize actions involving cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, but there are proactive measures that companies and financial institutions can take to avoid regulatory scrutiny going forward, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • 3 Steps For In-House Counsel To Assess Litigation Claims

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    Before a potential economic downturn, in-house attorneys should investigate whether their company is sitting on hidden litigation claims that could unlock large recoveries to help the business withstand tough times, says Will Burgess at Hilgers Graben.

  • IRS And ICE Info Sharing Could Drive Payroll Tax Enforcement

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    Tax crimes are historically difficult to prosecute, but the Internal Revenue Services’ recent agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to share taxpayer records of non-U.S. citizens could be used to enhance payroll tax-related enforcement against their employers, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • Series

    Teaching College Students Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Serving as an adjunct college professor has taught me the importance of building rapport, communicating effectively, and persuading individuals to critically analyze the difference between what they think and what they know — principles that have helped to improve my practice of law, says Sheria Clarke at Nelson Mullins.

  • Planning For Open Banking Despite ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Uncertainty

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    Though pending litigation or new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau leadership may reshape the Biden-era regulation governing access to consumer financial data, companies can use this uncertain period to take practical steps toward an open banking strategy that will work regardless of the rule’s ultimate form, says Adam Maarec at McGlinchey Stafford.

  • Crunching The Numbers Of Trump SEC's 1st 100 Days

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    During the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission brought significantly fewer stand-alone enforcement actions than at the beginning of the Biden and the first Trump administrations, with every one of the federal court complaints including allegations of fraudulent conduct, say attorneys at Dentons.

  • Atty Insurance Implications Of Rising Nonclient Cyber Claims

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    As law firms are increasingly targeted in cyberattacks, claims by clients as well as nonclients against lawyers are also on the rise, increasing the scope of exposure that attorneys face in their practice, say attorneys at Wilson Elser.

  • Why Attys Should Get Familiar With Quantum Computing

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    Quantum computing is projected to pose significant updates to current practices in cryptography, making the issue relevant to policymakers and the legal profession generally, particularly when it comes to data storage, privacy regulations and pharmaceutical industry market changes, say professors at the University of San Francisco.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From DOJ Enviro To Mid-Law

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    Practitioners leaving a longtime government role for private practice — as when I departed the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental enforcement division — should prioritize finding a firm that shares their principles, values their experience and will invest in their transition, says John Cruden at Beveridge & Diamond.

  • A Look At Probabilistic Tracing After High Court's Slack Ruling

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    Recent decisions following the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 ruling in Slack v. Pirani have increased the difficulty of pleading Securities Act claims for securities issued in direct listings by rejecting the use of statistical probabilities to establish that share purchases were traceable to a challenged registration statement, says Jonathan Richman at Brown Rudnick.

  • 3 Change Management Tools To Boost Compliance Efforts

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    As companies grapple with rapidly changing regulations and expectations, leaders charged with implementing their organizations’ compliance programs should look to change management principles to make the process less costly and more effective, says Liisa Thomas at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Legal Ethics Considerations For Law Firm Pro Bono Deals

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    If a law firm enters into a pro bono deal with the Trump administration in exchange for avoiding or removing an executive order, it has an ethical obligation to create a written settlement agreement with specific terms, which would mitigate some potential conflict of interest problems, says Andrew Altschul at Buchanan Angeli.

  • Series

    Playing Football Made Me A Better Lawyer

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    While my football career ended over 15 years ago, the lessons the sport taught me about grit, accountability and resilience have stayed with me and will continue to help me succeed as an attorney, says Bert McBride at Trenam.

  • 10 Arbitrations And A 5th Circ. Ruling Flag Arb. Clause Risks

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    The ongoing arbitral saga of Sullivan v. Feldman, which has engendered proceedings before 10 different arbitrators in Texas and Louisiana along with last month's Fifth Circuit opinion, showcases both the risks and limitations of arbitration clauses in retainer agreements for resolving attorney-client disputes, says Christopher Blazejewski at Sherin and Lodgen.

  • Electronic Shelf Labels Pose Myriad Risks For Retailers

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    While electronic shelf labels offer retailers a new way to convey pricing and other product information to consumers, the technology has attracted the attention of U.S. policymakers and consumer advocates, so businesses must assess antitrust, data privacy and discrimination risks before implementation, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.

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