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In the latest example of a securities class action lawsuit arising out of data breach or other cybersecurity incident, on October 24, 2019, a plaintiff shareholder filed a securities class action lawsuit against California-based software company Zendesk. The lawsuit follows after the company announced disappointing second quarter financial results in July and then announced in […]
The legal industry has poured significant resources into cybersecurity, leading to huge leaps in progress in the last decade, said security consultants, data privacy lawyers and chief security officers at law firms. But they also pointed to areas where large and small law firms can do much better in preventing and reacting to data breaches. And […]
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued guidance in 2018 promoting clearer and more robust disclosure about cybersecurity risks and incidents and how boards discharge their cybersecurity risk oversight responsibility. Our 2018 Cybersecurity disclosure benchmarking report explored how companies were responding to this guidance. We undertook the same research this year to help inform […]
McDermott Will & Emery has hired the co-chair of BakerHostetler’s blockchain technologies and digital currencies team as its global head of privacy and cybersecurity practice in Washington. An experienced privacy and cybersecurity attorney, Laura Jehl has spent the past three decades handling complex data security incidents and led investigations both in-house and in private practice. […]