Cybersecurity & Privacy

  • January 22, 2025

    Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds Slam Baldoni Atty's 'Media Blitz'

    Counsel for celebrity couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds told a New York federal judge that Justin Baldoni's attorney from Liner Freedman Taitelman & Cooley LLP has violated ethical rules with an "all-out media blitz" during their thorny litigation over the movie "It Ends With Us."

  • January 22, 2025

    Committee's Trump Probe Subpoenas Are Moot, Willis Says

    Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has urged a Georgia state court to quash a bid to enforce subpoenas from a state Senate committee investigating her handling of the prosecution of President Donald Trump, arguing the subpoenas are moot because "the old special committee no longer exists."

  • January 22, 2025

    Mounting Pressure For PE Exits To Drive IPO Volume In 2025

    Private equity-backed companies will generate nearly half of initial public offerings in 2025, analysts predicted on Wednesday, driven by a growing demand for exit strategies among investors that have owned stakes in companies for lengthy periods.

  • January 22, 2025

    CNN Fights Remand For Ex-NC Lt. Gov.'s Defamation Suit

    CNN urged a North Carolina federal judge not to send a defamation suit brought against it and a former pornography store clerk by the Tar Heel State's former lieutenant governor back to state court, arguing the clerk was fraudulently added to the case to avoid diversity jurisdiction.

  • January 21, 2025

    Ex-Meta COO Sanctioned For Deleting Cambridge Emails

    A Delaware Court of Chancery judge on Tuesday sanctioned Meta Platforms Inc.'s former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg in consolidated litigation over the Facebook Cambridge Analytica data scandal, finding that she likely selectively deleted emails that related to the litigation.

  • January 21, 2025

    Trump Pardons Silk Road's 'Dread Pirate' Ross Ulbricht

    President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he granted an unconditional pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind behind the cryptocurrency-fueled online drug bazaar Silk Road, in return for the political support he received from the crypto and libertarian realms.

  • January 21, 2025

    Key Justices Stay Quiet As High Court Weighs FCC Deference

    Several U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared open to giving district courts more leeway to review the Federal Communciations Commission's tome of regulations under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, although the two justices expected to cast pivotal votes refrained from posing questions. 

  • January 21, 2025

    Microsoft Copyright Discovery Fight Ends With Mixed Ruling

    A Washington federal judge partly sided with Microsoft on Tuesday in a case accusing a Canadian firm and its overseas director of peddling stolen software product keys to unsuspecting customers online, eliminating one of the defendants' key defenses while rejecting the tech giant's bid for discovery sanctions.

  • January 21, 2025

    Citi Can't Escape NYAG's Wire Fraud Protection Suit

    A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday declined to free Citibank NA from a lawsuit filed by New York's attorney general, who accuses the bank of failing to protect and reimburse customers who have lost money to online wire fraud.

  • January 21, 2025

    Realogy Signs $20M Deal In TCPA Cold Calling Class Action

    Realogy and classes of individuals who allegedly received harassing phone calls from real estate agents in violation of federal telemarketing restrictions urged a California federal court to preliminarily bless their $20 million settlement, with Realogy saying Tuesday that the deal pays more than the classes' claims are worth.

  • January 21, 2025

    Brendan Carr Officially Takes Over As FCC Chair

    Brendan Carr took over as chair of the Federal Communications Commission on Monday, restoring Republican control of the agency as President Donald Trump kicked off his second term.

  • January 21, 2025

    Colo. High Court Says Personal ID Theft Limited To People

    The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a charge of identity theft against a man convicted of running a fraudulent nursing class, saying that while parts of the state's identity theft statute can apply to businesses, the portion concerning personal identifying information applies only to individuals.

  • January 21, 2025

    Paul Hastings Repping TikTok Buyout Consortium

    Global law firm Paul Hastings LLP said Tuesday it is representing an American investor group, led by the founder of Employer.com, that has launched a formal bid to acquire the U.S. operations of TikTok.

  • January 21, 2025

    Stoel Rives Adds Tech, IP Partner From Stubbs Alderton

    Stoel Rives LLP has brought on the former chair of Stubbs Alderton & Markiles LLP's trademark and brand protection practice and its privacy and data security practice as a partner in Sacramento, California.

  • January 21, 2025

    Fee Sanctions Upheld For 'Frivolous' Defamation Suit

    A Michigan appellate panel says a trial court did not err by sanctioning a Detroit-based cooking influencer for filing a "frivolous" defamation complaint over social media comments, with the panel agreeing the influencer's claims were "devoid of arguable legal merit."

  • January 21, 2025

    Defamation Case Over NC Attorney General Race Fizzles Out

    The Republican candidate for North Carolina attorney general who lost the race in November to fellow former U.S. Rep. Jeff Jackson has dropped a defamation suit against Jackson's campaign and affiliated entities for allegedly besmirching his law practice.

  • January 21, 2025

    Simpson Thacher Adds IP, Cybersecurity Attorneys In NY

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced the addition of two attorneys from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP on Tuesday, touting the pair's experience at the intersection of intellectual property and cybersecurity.

  • January 21, 2025

    Pot Co. Stiiizy Hit With Data Breach Suit

    An employee of cannabis retailer Stiiizy Inc. is suing the company in Los Angeles court, alleging that it failed to protect consumer and employee information, resulting in a data breach last year, and then went nearly three months without telling the victims what happened.

  • January 21, 2025

    New Tariff Moves Still In Flux As Trump Retakes Office

    President Donald Trump's first day in office did not yield the range of new tariffs he promised, though the president stressed that several actions are still under discussion, including sanctions against China regarding control of the popular social network TikTok.

  • January 21, 2025

    Trump Orders Federal Workers Back To Office

    On his first day back in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump ordered federal workers back to theirs.

  • January 21, 2025

    Judge Blocks Release Of Trump Classified Info Report

    A Florida federal judge on Tuesday blocked the release of a report on the criminal case charging President Donald Trump with unlawfully hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after his first term in office, ruling there is no justification to release a report prior to the conclusion of criminal proceedings against Trump's co-defendants.

  • January 20, 2025

    Trump Delays TikTok Ban To Hammer Out Deal

    President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday that will keep TikTok from going dark in the U.S. while he works to broker a deal that would override the legislative mandate for the popular social media app to cut ties with its Chinese parent company or face a nationwide ban.

  • January 17, 2025

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • January 17, 2025

    Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

    Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • January 20, 2025

    Trump, Musk Sued By Nonprofits Over DOGE Transparency

    Public Citizen and other nonprofits hit the Trump administration with multiple lawsuits seeking to shut down the new Department of Government Efficiency in D.C. federal court Monday, alleging the Elon Musk-led advisory committee targeting government waste lacks requisite transparency guardrails to prevent DOGE from solely advancing private interests.

Expert Analysis

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • 4 Ways To Prepare For DOD Cyber Certification Rule

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    Given the U.S. Department of Justice's increased scrutiny of contractor compliance with cybersecurity requirements, it is critical that contractors take certain steps now in response to the U.S. Department of Defense's proposed Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification implementation rule, say Townsend Bourne and Lillia Damalouji at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Opinion

    AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys

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    The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.

  • Takeaways From Texas AG's Novel AI Health Settlement

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    The Texas attorney general's recent action against a health tech company marks another step in rapidly proliferating enforcement against artificial intelligence and privacy issues across multiple states, and highlights important risk mitigation considerations for health companies that implement AI systems, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.

  • What To Know About Latest Calif. Auto-Renewal Law Update

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    While businesses have about nine months to prepare before the recently passed amendment to California's automatic renewal law takes effect, it’s not too early to begin working on compliance efforts, including sign-up flow reviews, record retention updates and marketing language revisions, say Gonzalo Mon and Beth Chun at Kelley Drye.

  • Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: September Lessons

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    In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy identifies practice tips from four recent class certification rulings involving denial of Medicare reimbursements, automobile insurance disputes, veterans' rights and automobile defects.

  • How To Avoid Liability When Using Cookie Consent Managers

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    As companies attempt to comply with consumer protection laws by implementing cookie consent managers on their websites, they must be wary of separate legal risks that can stem from implementing or using these tools incorrectly, says Ian Cohen at LOKKER.

  • Series

    Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.

  • And Now A Word From The Panel: The MDL Map

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    An intriguing yet unpredictable facet of multidistrict litigation practice is venue selection for new MDL proceedings, and the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation considers many factors when it assigns an MDL venue, says Alan Rothman at Sidley Austin.

  • Navigating Restrictions Following Biotech Bill House Passage

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    Ahead of the BIOSECURE Act’s potential enactment, companies that obtain equipment from certain Chinese biotechnology companies should consider whether the act would restrict their ability to enter into contracts with the U.S. government and what steps they might take in response, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • Dealmaker Lessons From CFIUS' New Enforcement Webpage

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    The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’ recently launched webpage, which details the actions — and inactions — that led to enforcement activity, provides important insights for dealmakers about filing requirements, mitigation commitments and the cost of noncompliance, say attorneys at Dechert.

  • What's In Colorado's 1st-Of-Its-Kind Neural Privacy Law

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    Colorado recently became the first U.S. state to directly regulate neurotechnology with new legislation amending the Colorado Privacy Act to specifically protect biological and neural data, offering an example of how lawmakers can tackle the perceived regulation gaps in this area, say attorneys at Goodwin.

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics

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    Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.

  • What To Know About Insurance Coverage For Antitrust Risks

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    With all the regulatory activity surrounding antitrust and unfair competition claims, as highlighted by last month's D.C. federal court decision that Google is a monopolist, businesses must not only ensure compliance, but also understand their potential insurance coverage when such claims arise, says Micah Skidmore at Haynes Boone.

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