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ArentFox Schiff

2023 Trade Secrets End of Year Report

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2023 was a banner year for trade secrets, non-competes, and other restrictive covenants. Employee non-competes continued to garner attention at the federal agency level, drawing commentary and action from the Federal Trade...more

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Defending Against Employee Defection: The Intersectionality of Cybersecurity and Trade Secret Protections in the Digital Age

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Cybersecurity and data protection often involve the protection of data and intellectual property (“IP”), such as trade secrets, from outside threats, but is your company prepared to defend against threats from the inside? The...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: May 2023

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Five former Memphis-based hospital employees and another man have pled guilty to unlawfully disclosing patient information in violation of HIPAA, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee Kevin Ritz announced....more

Genova Burns LLC

Potential Harm Enough For Class Action to Proceed in Data Breach Litigation

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The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has given new life to a putative class action suit led by a former employee of a company that suffered a ransomware attack, leading to her sensitive information being released onto the Dark...more

Fisher Phillips

Forecast: March 2022 Edition

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Welcome to FP Forecast, a monthly outlook featuring Fisher Phillips thought leaders providing their insights into what employers can expect in 2022 and beyond. By following along each month, you’ll be in the best position to...more

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UK’s Financial Conduct Authority Warns That Fund Managers Are at Increased Risk of Cyber Attacks

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With 46% of UK business reporting a cyber attack during 2019/2020 and 32% reporting at least one a week – see the UK Government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2020 – the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) has issued a...more

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Abbott Case Proves Cyber Theft Is A Serious Matter

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With everything 401(k) related being online, cyber security is important for plan sponsors, plan providers, and plan participants. A former employee of Abbott Laboratories sued the company and its record keeper, Alight...more

Sherman & Howard L.L.C.

Facebook-Hacking Employer Still Gets Injunction Against Ex-Employees

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Scherer Design Group (“SDG”) sued several of its former employees for starting a competing business (while still employed), stealing trade secrets, and stealing clients. The trial court entered an injunction against the...more

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HIPAA Penalties For Failure to Cut Off Access To Former Employee

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It has been a busy few weeks for HIPAA enforcement. On Tuesday, the Office for Civil Rights announced its third resolution of a HIPAA breach in as many weeks. In this latest matter, OCR announced that Pagosa Springs Medical...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Red Notice Newsletter - Spanish

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ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS - DOJ Files Superseding Indictment in Haitian Port Corruption Plot - On October 30, 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a superseding indictment in the District of Massachusetts...more

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Red Notice Newsletter - Russian

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ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS - DOJ Files Superseding Indictment in Haitian Port Corruption Plot - On October 30, 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a superseding indictment in the District of Massachusetts...more

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Red Notice Newsletter - Chinese

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ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS - DOJ Files Superseding Indictment in Haitian Port Corruption Plot - On October 30, 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a superseding indictment in the District of Massachusetts...more

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Red Notice Newsletter - October 2018

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ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS - DOJ Files Superseding Indictment in Haitian Port Corruption Plot - On October 30, 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a superseding indictment in the District of Massachusetts...more

Fisher Phillips

Top 10 Things All Employers Need To Know About Autonomous Vehicles

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We’re living at a time when a unique convergence of multiple trends is ensuring that autonomous vehicles (AVs) will soon change life as we know it. On the technology side, vehicles are trending towards being electrified and...more

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The Perils of Well-Intentioned Deception: Insider Trading Case Highlights Challenges Facing Public Companies

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The Situation: Despite Equifax's use of a cover story to keep employees from learning it was the victim of a serious data breach, a then-employee allegedly figured it out and made illegal securities trades based on the...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Food and Beverage Law Update: June 2018

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Wage and Hour - Decision Upholds Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Clauses, Resolves Circuit Split - The U.S. Supreme Court issued a long-awaited decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis on May 21, 2018, holding that...more

Fisher Phillips

Security Breached – Tips for Mitigating and Protecting Private Information from Inside and Outside Threats

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If you’re going to demote or terminate your in-house tech expert, you should plan that event very carefully. Our firm is now helping a client with damage control and data recovery upon discovering – a week after their...more

Baker Donelson

Living in the Clouds: Is Your Business Data at Risk Because of a Disgruntled Employee?

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TheCloud: Good Morning! TheCloud is a leading cloud-based provider, striving to secure your apps, email and confidential data in the cloud. How may we help you today? Mr. Techie: My name is Mr. TechieTechie, I’m the CEO...more

King & Spalding

Congressional Report Finds FDIC Data Breach Response Obstructed Congressional Oversight

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On July 12, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (the “Science Committee”) released a report regarding its investigation of an October 2015 data breach and the subsequent response of...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Cybersecurity and Data Privacy and E-Discovery and Information Management: Second Circuit Draws Line Between Employees and Hackers...

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Employers in New York face a heightened hurdle to holding employees legally accountable for theft and other misuse of company data after the Second Circuit’s recent decision in United States v. Valle. The Court has held that...more

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Disgruntled Former Tribune Company Employee Who Aided Hacking Convicted; Could Face Jail Time

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On October 7, 2015, former Tribune Company employee Matthew Keys was convicted of three felonies stemming in part from assistance he provided to the hacking collective Anonymous to alter content on the LA Times’ website. ...more

Cozen O'Connor

Pennsylvania Federal Court Finds Standing in Data Breach Class Action

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The debate over standing in data breach litigation is gaining more attention lately. While many courts have hesitated to find standing prior to lost personally identifiable information (PII) actually being misused, the U.S....more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Florida’s CADRA a Powerful New Data Protection

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Florida businesses will soon have an important and powerful new legal cause of action to combat unauthorized access to protected computer systems or data by employees, former employees, directors, officers, and others....more

Carlton Fields

A Different Kind of Data Breach—Loss or Disclosure of Company Information by Employee Theft

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Data breaches are all over the news, but those stories most often cover high-profile cybersecurity breaches that result from the malicious efforts of hackers or other outsiders. Just as insidious, and more likely to occur,...more

Porter Hedges LLP

Business Litigation Alert: "When Employees Turn Into 'Hackers'"

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Sometimes the Greatest Risk Comes from the Inside - Cybersecurity continues to be an issue that dominates the news. Much has been made of the cyber-risk US companies face from foreign countries and outsiders. However,...more

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