Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 204: Listen and Learn -- Scope of Discovery and the Work-Product Privilege
Internal Investigations in the Asia-Pacific Region
Cyberside Chats: Preserving Legal Privilege After a Cybersecurity Incident
Jones Day Presents: Strategies for Dealing with the IRS: The IRS Examination
Day 15 of One Month to Better Investigations and Reporting-the Parameters of Privileges
The last two Privilege Points have described yet another losing effort to protect a data breach investigation and related communications. In Leonard v. McMenamins Inc., Case No. C22-0094-KKE, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 217502...more
Companies and even law firms suffer data breaches, and usually claim privilege and work product protection for the inevitable resulting investigation. Unfortunately, courts seem to have rejected such protection claims in all...more
In an age of digital transformation, the legal industry is increasingly thinking about using AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT for document review, legal research, and even writing legal briefs. Yet, in our...more
Cyber attacks are increasingly frequent and virulent. An intruder may lurk in a company’s computer system for years, or an attack may be sudden and catastrophic. Millions of people’s personal information and companies’...more
Organizations are feeling the pinch of compliance like never before as government agencies at every level are scrutinizing their business affairs more closely and issuing more regulations. To meet their compliance...more
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
On January 12, 2021, the District Court of the District of Columbia was the latest court to grant a motion to compel production of a forensic report prepared by an external security-consulting firm in data breach...more
In an unprecedented ruling, one federal court recently held that the work product doctrine does not protect the expert cybersecurity report prepared after a data breach. The court ordered the release of the unredacted...more
Boards of Directors and management at companies of all sizes face a common problem: they need to make decisions that are best for the company and in order to do so they need to know the facts — the pleasant and the unpleasant...more
Those following developments in the data breach litigation space will be interested in the recent decision, In re Experian Data Breach Litigation (In Re Experian), where the California District Court upheld a privilege claim...more
A recent opinion from the District Court for the Central District of California in In re Experian Data Breach Litigation offers some examples of best practices for establishing the work-product privilege over certain...more
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
In this edition of our Privacy and Cybersecurity Update, we take a look at the Trump administration's executive order outlining its cybersecurity plans, Acting FTC Chairwoman Maureen Ohlhausen's comments on the possible...more
While courts and the Federal Rules of Evidence take an increasingly pragmatic approach to the question of when inadvertent disclosure of privileged information results in waiver, a recent federal magistrate’s ruling serves as...more