Bloomberg Law
April 7, 2016, 4:00 AM UTC

Threats of Litigation After Data Breaches at Major Law Firms

Reports that Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP and Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, as well as other law firms, faced data breaches in recent months put new attention on the potential consequences for law firms with lax security.

“We’ve been saying for a long time that law firms are major targets,” Jay Edelson, founder of Edelson, a plaintiff’s side class-action firm that focuses on privacy-related suits, told Bloomberg BNA.

The Edelson firm has conducted a year-long investigation and identified 15 major law firms with inadequate cybersecurity, he said. It is planning to file a series of class actions against the ...

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