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Baker Donelson

Privilege Under Fire: Protecting Forensic Reports in the Wake of a Data Breach

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In the chaos following a cyberattack, forensic reports are often pulled together under intense pressure and can assist companies in responding to and remediating the incident. However, if you're not careful, these reports...more

A&O Shearman

Medibank class action: navigating the legal privilege maze

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Concerns about claims of legal professional privilege over third-party investigation reports produced in the course of responding to cyberattacks, and the extent to which such reports can be shielded from disclosure in legal...more

Mayer Brown

2024 Cyber Litigation Legal Update – What Your Business Needs To Know

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By now, companies across all industries have become familiar with the lifecycle and stages of a ransomware incident. Generally, once an attack is contained, remediation and rebuilding will follow. Shortly after, the crisis...more

ArentFox Schiff

Error - No Privilege Found: District Court Compels Production of Data Breach Report

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The Middle District of Pennsylvania recently rejected arguments that a report created in response to a data breach was protected as work-product and/or under attorney-client privilege because: The report’s Statement of Work...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Another Court Orders Production of Cybersecurity Firm’s Forensic Report in a Data Breach Case

Another district court just ordered the defendant in a data breach class action to turn over the forensic report it believed was entirely protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine....more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - Issue 4, August 2020

Crosmun v. The Trustees of Fayetteville Technical Community College Provides Much Needed Guidance to NC Courts on How to Properly Craft eDiscovery Protocols - The Court of Appeals decision in Crosmun is important because...more

Woods Rogers

Protecting Your Organization: Eastern District of Virginia Rules Cybersecurity Incident Report Not Privileged Work Product

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On May 26, 2020, in In re Capital One Consumer Data Security Breach Litigation, MDL 1:19md2915 (E.D. Va.) the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria Division) (Anderson, J.) held that a...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Court Applies Work Product Protection to Breach Investigation Reports

One of the most significant questions in data security law is whether reports created by forensic firms investigating data breaches at the direction of counsel are protected from discovery in civil class action lawsuits. ...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Wake-Up Call: Law Firms in the Cybersecurity Crosshairs

Last week marked the first time a U.S. law firm was publicly named in a class action data security lawsuit. Originally filed in April 2016, the class action complaint in Shore v. Johnson & Bell, Ltd., 16-cv-4363 (N.D. Ill.),...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Is Your Privilege On Target? Lessons in Protecting Privilege from the Target Data Breach

The Target data breach has been the source of countless discussions of what to do and what not to do following a data breach. A recent ruling from the federal district court overseeing the consumer class action provides...more

King & Spalding

Attorney-Client Privilege and Work-Product Doctrine Shield Forensic Data Breach Consultant’s Communications and Documents from...

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October 23, 2015, Magistrate Judge Jeffrey J. Keyes of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota determined that the attorney-client privilege and the work-product doctrine shielded from disclosure...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

Lessons Learned from Target’s Data Breach Discovery Win - Five Strategies for Maintaining Privilege in the Aftermath of a Data...

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A thousand questions immediately flood any lawyer’s mind when they first hear that their client may have been affected by a data breach. How did it happen? What data were affected? Was there any personal information affected,...more

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