Bloomberg Law
December 9, 2016, 5:09 PM UTC

Chicago Law Firm Accused of Lax Data Security in Lawsuit

Gabe Friedman
Freelancer

A federal judge on Friday unveiled a long sealed proposed class-action complaint that accused the law firm, Johnson & Bell, of failing to take adequate steps to protect the data on its servers.

Thecase is currently proceeding in confidential arbitration and the complaint was filed in April by the plaintiff’s firm Edelson P.C. on behalf of two of Johnson & Bell’s onetime clients, Jason Shore, a California resident, and Coinabul, a Wyoming limited liability company.

Johnson & Bell is a Chicago-based firm with about 100 attorneys and was ranked as the 385th largest law firm in the country, according to The ...

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