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McCarter & English, LLP

Don’t Get Caught in Scattered Spider’s Web

The cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider is at it again, according to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group. This criminal group is known to focus its cyber attacks on one sector at a time. Last spring, it was the retail...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Exercising Due Diligence in the Selection of a Tech Vendor

The task of conducting due diligence in the selection of technology vendors is a critical component of the lawyer’s ethical obligation to maintain reasonable security over client confidential information. However, for several...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Are Financial Institutions’ Consultants and Vendors Compromising Their Privileges?

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A recent decision from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas should trigger alarm bells for financial institutions’ in-house counsel. The court held that the bank involved had waived any privilege...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Insights for Insurers

Capital One Loses Bid to Shield Post-Breach Report from Consumer Plaintiffs

On June 25, a Federal District Court in Virginia (Anthony J. Trenga, U.S.D.J.) affirmed a Magistrate Judge's Order requiring Capital One to produce a vendor's post-breach forensic report to plaintiffs in a consumer class...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Insights for Insurers

No Protection for Vendor's Forensic Report in Post-Breach Litigation? - Preserving Privilege and Work Product Protection in Light...

A May 26, 2020 order by U.S. Magistrate Judge John F. Anderson (E.D. Va.) that attorney work product protection did not preclude production of a forensic vendor's data breach investigation report to plaintiffs in the Capital...more

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