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Data Breach Work-Product Doctrine Discovery

BCLP

Navigating a Security Incident - Communication “Dos” and “Don’ts”

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Communication during a data breach is challenging in the best of circumstances, and control of information, especially early in a breach response, is critical. Below are some DOs and DON’Ts for communicating during a data...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Can Any Data Breach Investigation Report Deserve Protection? Part II

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Last week’s Privilege Point described a data breach victim’s latest losing effort to claim privilege protection for its consultant’s investigation report. Leonard v. McMenamins Inc., Case No. C22-0094-KKE, 2023 U.S. Dist....more

Jenner & Block

Privilege Newsletter: Fitting Consultants Within the Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product Protection – Cyber Breach...

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Cyber attacks are increasingly frequent and virulent. An intruder may lurk in a company’s computer system for years, or an attack may be sudden and catastrophic. Millions of people’s personal information and companies’...more

Lowndes

Data Breach! Miranda Himself May Be Dead, But the Wisdom of the Case that Bears His Name Lives On

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Let us assume a company has done all the right things. Preemptive security was a concern, so the company tightened up its written cybersecurity controls and associated technical controls, including policies and...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Forensic Analysis and Privilege in the Wake of a Data Breach

In the wake of a data breach, counsel will often require the assistance of a forensic firm in order to provide legal advice to their client. The forensic analysis—which is often memorialized in a report to counsel—is crucial...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

White and Williams LLP

Another Court Holds a Third-Party Cyber Forensics Report as NOT Privileged

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On January 12, 2021, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia joined the growing list of courts that have held that reports generated by third-party forensics firms in response to a cyberattack are not...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Insights for Insurers

Capital One Loses Bid to Shield Post-Breach Report from Consumer Plaintiffs

On June 25, a Federal District Court in Virginia (Anthony J. Trenga, U.S.D.J.) affirmed a Magistrate Judge's Order requiring Capital One to produce a vendor's post-breach forensic report to plaintiffs in a consumer class...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

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

Maintaining Privilege and Work Product Protections in Dual Purpose (Legal and Business) Investigations

Requires More than Merely Adding Counsel’s Name to a Forensic Report. Technical investigations conducted following cyber-incidents often have both legal and ordinary-course business purposes. In certain jurisdictions,...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Influential Sedona Conference Releases Key Guidance for Attorney-Client Privilege and Work-Product Protection in Cybersecurity...

With significant input from Orrick’s Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Innovation team, the influential Sedona Conference and its Working Group 11 last week published important guidance on the application of the attorney-client...more

Troutman Pepper

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

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

A Question of Privilege: Court Wrestles With Attorney-Client and Work Product Issues in Data Breach Case

In a significant ruling addressing the scope of the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine in a data breach case, a Federal judge in Oregon ordered Premera Blue Cross, the Washington-based healthcare services...more

BakerHostetler

Deeper Dive: Application of Work-Product Doctrine to Forensic Investigations

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In a recent post, we addressed the role a forensic investigation plays in a company’s response to a data security incident. We noted that to maximize the likelihood that a forensic firm’s work will be covered by the...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Court Applies Work Product Protection to Breach Investigation Reports

One of the most significant questions in data security law is whether reports created by forensic firms investigating data breaches at the direction of counsel are protected from discovery in civil class action lawsuits. ...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

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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