Privacy Laws, Defamation

May I Use Patient Information to Respond to Internet Criticism?

Kerr Russell on 6/27/2025

Question: It was recently brought to my attention that a patient posted on the internet false and misleading information regarding treatment I provided to her. The posting also contains false and defamatory descriptions of me...more

Can I Sue for Invasion of Privacy?

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC on 12/14/2023

Privacy has been recognized as a fundamental right in our country, and the violation of this right can have profound implications. In an era dominated by technology and constant connectivity, concerns about invasion of...more

Generative AI Is Here – Are Your Workplace Policies Ready?

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 6/9/2023

As generative artificial intelligence (GAI) technology, like ChatGPT, finds new and greater uses in the workplace, employers must consider the myriad of legal and other issues that come with it. For good reason, employers...more

Additional Thoughts on “The Right to Hide the Published Truth”

Womble Bond Dickinson on 8/25/2021

Private citizens have a right to remove significant falsehoods from the public record. The law of defamation clearly allows for retractions and damage payments if provable lies are published....more

Personal and Corporate Reputation: Five Lessons from 2016

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 1/4/2017

On November 19, 2014, Sabrina Erdely’s Rolling Stone article “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA” went viral. The article depicted the violent gang rape of a University of Virginia student...more

Keeping Confidences

Zelle LLP on 9/4/2015

One of our very favorite cartoons is part of the “Ballard Street” collection by Jerry Van Amerongen. It depicts an earnest soul working away at his desk (we like to think he’s an HR professional) beneath a prominently-posted...more