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Cybersecurity & Privacy

  • May 08, 2025

    CEO Stole Funds To Fuel 'Gambling Habit', Investor Says

    An investor in a cybersecurity company has claimed in a new suit that the company's CEO defrauded the investor out of more than $2.8 million through falsified budgets and other means, all to support a "lavish" lifestyle and "severe gambling habit."

  • May 08, 2025

    Pa. Judge Gives Final OK To $1.1M Inquirer Data Breach Deal

    A Pennsylvania federal judge overseeing a consolidated action accusing the Philadelphia Inquirer of sharing subscribers' video viewing habits with Meta has granted final approval to a $1.1 million settlement, including nearly $375,000 in attorney's fees.

  • May 08, 2025

    Ƶ Needs Stronger Controls On Supervisory Info, IG Says

    A federal watchdog for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has called for the agency to tighten its controls on confidential information from its supervision of financial firms, finding gaps that could leave such data vulnerable to unauthorized access and exposure.

  • May 08, 2025

    No 'Clean Slate' For Samsung After Epic's Win Against Google

    A California federal judge overseeing Epic Games' lawsuit alleging Samsung and Google colluded to dodge an injunction related to Google's Play Store warned the parties on Thursday that he won't completely ignore jury findings in a similar case that Epic won against Google, noting that "we're not writing on a clean slate."

  • May 08, 2025

    Google Payment Unit Ends Suit As Ƶ Nixes Oversight Plan

    Google Payment Corp. disclosed Thursday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has agreed to drop Biden-era plans to supervise the tech giant's payment arm, leading the company to drop its suit against the regulator.

  • May 08, 2025

    Apple Asks 9th Circ. To Pause New App Store Injunction

    Apple has asked the Ninth Circuit to pause parts of a California federal court's new injunction mandating changes to its App Store policies, issued after finding Apple violated a previous order, saying the "punitive" measures force it to give away free access to its products.

  • May 08, 2025

    Instacart, Partiful Allegedly Infringed 'FIZZ' TM To Target Gen Z

    Silicon Valley-based social media platform Fizz Social Corp. has accused Instacart and Partiful of ripping off its event planning platform's "FIZZ" trademark to launch a rival "Fizz app" that specifically targets the so-called Gen Z demographic, according to a trademark infringement and anti-cybersquatting lawsuit filed in California federal court.

  • May 08, 2025

    SEC's Peirce Outlines Path To Exempt Tokenized Securities

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Hester Peirce on Thursday endorsed the creation of "regulatory sandboxes" that would encourage companies to develop trading systems for tokenized securities, enabling them to experiment with new technologies without certain registration requirements that govern stock exchanges.

  • May 08, 2025

    Buffalo Wild Wings Job Apps Violate Ill. Privacy Law, Suit Says

    Buffalo Wild Wings and its corporate parent have been hit with a proposed class action from two Illinois residents alleging the chain is violating a state privacy law by probing applicants' family medical histories as part of its employment considerations.

  • May 08, 2025

    Wife Of Former FTX Exec Says Charges Are Built On Deception

    Attorney and cryptocurrency lobbyist Michelle Bond, the wife of jailed former FTX executive Ryan Salame, told a Manhattan federal judge that her campaign finance case should be tossed because prosecutors broke a promise that she wouldn't be charged if her husband pled guilty.

  • May 07, 2025

    Texas AG Warns Chinese Cos. To Get In Step With Privacy Law

    The Texas attorney general has informed Alibaba, CapCut, TP-Link and several other companies with ties to the Chinese government that they have 30 days to remedy alleged violations of the state's comprehensive data privacy law or face "additional legal action," marking the latest escalation of the agency's privacy enforcement efforts.

  • May 07, 2025

    Sidley-Led Insurer Aspen Leads 2 IPOs Raising $508M Total

    Private equity-backed specialty insurer Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd., represented by Sidley Austin LLP, on Wednesday raised $397.5 million after pricing an upsized initial public offering, leading one of two insurance listings that netted $507.5 million combined as more companies tiptoe back into the IPO market. 

  • May 07, 2025

    Top Groups Lobbying The FCC

    The Federal Communications Commission heard from advocates dozens of times throughout April about their concerns, from T-Mobile's planned takeover of UScellular's wireless operations to Native American tribes' needs for licensed spectrum, phone "unlocking" mandates to spur competition, satellite power limits and more.

  • May 07, 2025

    Politics, Tech Issues Top Concerns At Chicago Risk Event

    Insurance and risk professionals around the country gathered in Chicago to discuss potential perils and opportunities for the future, with talks often centering on President Donald Trump's administration, technological developments and statutory reform of the legal system.

  • May 07, 2025

    Deutsche Bank, Computacenter Sued For Firing Whistleblower

    An ex-information technology employee at Computacenter has sued the company, Deutsche Bank and his ex-supervisor for $25 million in New York state court alleging he was fired for blowing the whistle on a security breach in which his colleague's girlfriend purportedly accessed private client information.

  • May 07, 2025

    Fla. Law Firm Says Paralegal Stole Its Trade Secrets

    A law firm in Miami is suing a former paralegal in Florida state court, saying she misappropriated trade secrets and stole thousands of attorney-client records following a negative performance review.

  • May 07, 2025

    Jenner & Block Brings On Former White House Tech Adviser

    Jenner & Block LLP has added a former senior White House official with deep experience in telecommunications and national security to strengthen its bench in emerging technologies, the firm announced Wednesday.

  • May 07, 2025

    Top Regional Atty At Binance Joins Steptoe White Collar Team

    The former legal leader for Binance's Americas region, who also has been in-house with Vimeo and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has transitioned into private practice at Steptoe LLP, the firm said Wednesday, as policymakers work to set rules of the road for cryptocurrency.

  • May 07, 2025

    Wyden Urges Probe Of White House Use Of TeleMessage App

    Senate Finance Committee ranking member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., sent a letter Tuesday to Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting an immediate investigation of the "serious threat to U.S. national security" posed by White House personnel using TeleMessage, an app that archives Signal messages.

  • May 07, 2025

    Obama Admin Secretary Johnson To Retire From Paul Weiss

    Former Homeland Security secretary under President Barack Obama Jeh Johnson is planning to retire from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP at the end of June, leaving his post as co-chair of cybersecurity at the law firm and taking up a co-chair position on Columbia University's board of trustees, according to a recent announcement.

  • May 07, 2025

    Daily Mail Says Celebs Should Reveal 'Watershed Moments'

    The publisher of the U.K.'s Daily Mail urged a judge Wednesday to order celebrities who are suing the company over allegedly committing unlawful acts against them, to disclose when they were told the information that caused them to make their claims.

  • May 07, 2025

    Payroll Company Hit With Class Action Over Data Breach

    A payroll company failed to safeguard personal data and allowed Social Security numbers to be stolen in a hack last year, according to a proposed class action filed in Massachusetts federal court.

  • May 06, 2025

    Delta Must Keep Battling Customers' Trimmed IT Outage Suit

    A Georgia federal judge on Tuesday threw out the bulk of customers' proposed class action over the 2024 global tech outage that disrupted thousands of flights, while permitting a handful of customers to move forward with claims that Delta owed them refunds.

  • May 06, 2025

    Mobile Cos. Ramp Up Call For Spectrum, But Face Hurdles

    The nation's mobile service providers on Tuesday pushed for more midband spectrum to fuel the wireless industry, even as key policymakers worried Congress could act too hastily to commercialize airwaves the military needs for defense operations.

  • May 06, 2025

    Experian Trims But Can't Ditch Ƶ's Credit Reporting Suit

    Experian must continue facing the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's lawsuit accusing it of mishandling consumer credit reporting disputes as a California federal judge on Monday tossed some but not all of the bureau's claims against the credit reporting agency.

Expert Analysis

  • How Law Firms Can Counteract The Loneliness Epidemic

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    The legal industry is facing an urgent epidemic of loneliness, affecting lawyer well-being, productivity, retention and profitability, and law firm leaders should take concrete steps to encourage the development of genuine workplace connections, says Michelle Gomez at Littler and Gwen Mellor Romans at Herald Talent.

  • 5 Keys To Building Stronger Attorney-Client Relationships

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    Attorneys are often focused on being seen as the expert, but bonding with clients and prospects by sharing a few key personal details provides the basis for a caring, trusted and profoundly deeper business relationship, says Deb Feder at Feder Development.

  • Justices' TikTok Ruling May Pose Threat To Online Expression

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent landmark ruling upholding a federal law mandating TikTok's forced divestiture in the name of data security may embolden digital censorship agendas worldwide, says IP lawyer Bahram Jafari.

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    Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The skills I use when racing Corvettes have enhanced my legal practice in several ways, because driving, like practicing law, requires precision, awareness and a good set of brakes — complete with the wisdom to know how and when to use them, says Kat Mateo at Olshan Frome.

  • Opinion

    Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence

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    Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch’s authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.

  • Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises

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    “No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.

  • A Closer Look At FDX's New Role As Banking Standard-Setter

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    Should the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau let ​​​​​​​stand the decision empowering Financial Data Exchange as an industry standard-setter, it will be a significant step toward broader financial data-sharing, but its success will depend on industry adoption, regulatory oversight and consumer confidence, say attorneys at Clark Hill.

  • How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose In Work

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    Lawyers everywhere are feeling overwhelmed amid mass government layoffs, increasing political instability and a justice system stretched to its limits — but a design-thinking framework can help attorneys navigate this uncertainty and find meaning in their work, say law professors at the University of Michigan.

  • 10 Issues To Watch In Aerospace And Defense Contracting

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    This year, in addition to evergreen developments driven by national security priorities, disruptive new technologies and competition with rival powers, federal contractors will see significant disruptions driven by the new administration’s efforts to reduce government spending, regulation and the size of the federal workforce, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.

  • Compliance Pointers For DOJ's Sweeping Data Security Rule

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    A new Justice Department rule broadly restricts many common data transactions with the goal of preventing access by countries of concern, and with an effective date of April 8, U.S. companies must quickly assess practices related to employee, customer and vendor data, says Sam Castic at Hintze Law.

  • Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: February Lessons

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    In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses five federal appellate court class certification decisions and identifies practice tips from cases involving breach of life insurance contracts, constitutional violations of inmates and more.

  • What To Expect From The New FCC Chair

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    As a vocal critic of the Federal Communications Commission's recent priorities, newly appointed chair Brendan Carr has described a vision for the agency that would bring significant changes to telecommunication regulation and Telephone Consumer Protection Act enforcement in the U.S., say attorneys at BCLP.

  • 4 Do's And Don'ts For Trial Lawyers Using Generative AI

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    Trial attorneys who use artificial intelligence tools should review a few key reminders, from the likelihood that prompts are discoverable to the rapid evolution of court rules, to safeguard against embarrassing missteps, says Nate Sabri at Perkins Coie.

  • Defense Strategies For Politically Charged Prosecutions

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    Politically charged prosecutions have captured the headlines in recent years, providing lessons for defense counsel on how to navigate the distinct challenges, and seize the unique opportunities, such cases present, says Kenneth Notter at MoloLamken.

  • Series

    Competitive Weightlifting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The parallels between the core principles required for competitive weightlifting and practicing law have helped me to excel in both endeavors, with each holding important lessons about discipline, dedication, drive and failure, says Damien Bielli at VF Law.

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