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Foley & Lardner LLP

Sixth Circuit Affirms Attorney-Client Privilege and Work-Product Protection over Internal Investigation Materials

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Internal investigations have become a relatively normal part of doing business, but that does not mean the fruits of those investigations are discoverable even if they have a “business purpose.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Update: Protecting Privilege: Top 10 Checklist for Cybersecurity Forensic Investigation Reports

In ongoing multidistrict litigation concerning Capital One’s 2019 data breach, Capital One succeeded in defeating a motion to compel disclosure of a privileged root cause analysis conducted by PwC. In contrast to an earlier...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

District Court Affirms Order Requiring Production of Cyber-Investigation Report after Considering Totality of Circumstances

As we previously reported, the Magistrate Judge in In re: Capital One Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, found that a forensic report that Capital One had claimed was protected by the privilege and work product...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

Womble Bond Dickinson

Federal Court Finds Cybersecurity Forensic Report Not Privileged Under Attorney Work Product Doctrine

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The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (Court) has held that a cyber-forensic investigation report was not protected by the attorney work product doctrine and ordered Capital One to produce it...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC v. RPM International — A Cautionary Case Study on the Limits of Attorney-Client Privilege and Work-Product Protection

While much of the corporate legal world has been focused on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, a little-noticed case working its way through the federal courts in Washington, D.C. threatens to whittle down the scope of...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Evaluating Stand-Alone Privilege for Cybersecurity Info

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With cybercrime on the rise, organizations have increasingly found themselves subject to litigation or regulatory investigations related to breaches. Documents and information created before breaches, such as security...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Protection of Vendor Report and Documents as Work Product is Big Win for Experian

When assisting clients with emergency data breach response, and preparing and implementing a data privacy and security plan, it often becomes efficient, cost effective and necessary to hire outside vendors to assist with...more

McDermott Will & Emery

AbbVie Documents Not Protected by Privilege in FTC Sham Litigation Suit - Federal Trade Commission v. AbbVie, Inc., (E.D. Penn....

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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ordered AbbVie, Inc. and Besins Healthcare to produce unredacted documents to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), because the documents were relevant to the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Court Says Cyber Forensics Covered by Legal Privilege

The Middle District of Tennessee recently issued a key decision in the ongoing Genesco, Inc. v. Visa U.S.A., Inc. data breach litigation. The court denied discovery requests by Visa for analyses, reports, and communications...more

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