Whether arising out of trade secrets, personal data, or other sensitive confidential information, privacy and cybersecurity issues affect every business. And with the proliferation of information technologies and growth of the internet, these issues touch every part of an organization, including operations, customer service, finance, marketing/sales, HR, and IT.

To ensure that clients obtain the best practical advice on complex issues such as record retention, breach notification, privacy policies, information safeguarding, e-discovery, consumer identification and authentication, and other privacy and cybersecurity issues, we have assembled a cross-disciplinary team with both legal and industry expertise. As a result, we are able to combine our knowledge in the areas of intellectual property, technology, financial services, health care, employment, and litigation, with relevant expertise in privacy and data security issues to help clients solve problems and get deals done.

Visit our Privacy & Data Security practice area page for more information.

Representative Experience

We are assisting a computer forensics firm in a complicated and lengthy electronic data recovery effort. The client comments that they have never encountered a legal team with as much knowledge about electronic data retrieval and processing that is also organized, friendly and easy to work with.

Computer Forensics Firm Electronic Data Recovery

We successfully defended a major retailer in parallel federal multi-district and state level class actions after a data security breach resulted in exposure of electronic payment card data.

Dismissal of Class Actions Against Retailer for Data Security Breaches

We advised a major national insurer regarding the privacy law implications of its big data marketing initiatives.

Privacy Law Implications of Marketing with Big Data