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Winston takes a strategic approach to privacy and data security, integrating cross-practice capabilities to provide our clients with cutting-edge counseling; trade secret protection and investigations; cybersecurity incident investigations, including breach and ransomware; data-security class action litigation; and international data protection. Our Global Privacy & Data Security Practice features a core team of more than 20 privacy professionals and is bolstered by over 60 attorneys from a variety of other disciplines firmwide. Our team combines compliance counselors, transactional lawyers, former government regulators and federal prosecutors, seasoned investigators, and experienced litigators. Few firms can rival our in-depth, sophisticated, and integrated experience in this area.
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Trade Secrets, Non Competes & Restrictive Covenants
Theft of trade secrets and other confidential information occurs all too frequently in today’s global, highly mobile, and competitive marketplace. In the course of advising clients, we have developed comprehensive, yet scalable, strategies for both mitigating against and responding to issues along the trade secrets protection spectrum, including helping position clients proactively before trade secrets theft occurs.
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eDiscovery & Information Governance
Winston’s eDiscovery & Information Governance Practice (eDiscovery Group) is one of the United States’ largest and most experienced. Per The Legal 500 US 2024, “[Winston has] a very strong practice from top to bottom. They have a good e-discovery consulting practice and excellent review and production capabilities and are amongst the strongest advocates you could want in a courtroom.” We have built a full-service consulting practice to support our clients and case teams in these complex areas—both domestically and globally.
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|November 15, 2024
Post-Election Financial Services Forum
On November 15, 2024, join Winston & Strawn’s Financial Services Industry Group for a webinar discussing the impact of the U.S. election results on the financial services sector for 2025 and beyond. This virtual roundtable discussion—featuring 17 Winston partners including moderators Amanda Groves and George Mastoris—will provide insights and potential implications to various financial services areas and regions, including:
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|November 5, 2024
Decoding AI Law - Fall 2024 Edition
Join Winston’s Artificial Intelligence attorneys throughout November for a CLE-accredited webinar series exploring the latest topics at the intersection of generative and general AI and the law.
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|October 30, 2024
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SEC Charges Four Companies With Misleading Cyber Disclosures on SolarWinds Hack
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced charges and million-dollar penalties against four companies for allegedly making materially misleading disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk and intrusions relating SolarWinds hack.
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Law Glossary
What Is Data Breach and Data Security Law?
Within 48 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, data breach and data security laws require organizations and government agencies to provide notifications of security breaches when they involve personally identifiable information. Companies may also be required by state data breach laws to act to minimize the effects of a breach. The FTC can investigate companies that do not adhere to their stated privacy policies and do not have safeguards to protect customer data, but no broad federal law exists regarding breach notifications. However, these U.S. data security laws and government agency rules are enforced:
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Definitions of big data may differ within the computing or business world. In general, the term refers to structured and unstructured data that is extremely large in volume and/or complex—and due to these characteristics, it is difficult to manage with standard data processing or storage. The phrase “big data” may also refer to the processing techniques that an organization employs to manage the huge, complex, or time-sensitive sets of information it receives.
Law Glossary
Though the U.S. has not passed legislation dealing solely with data security law, organizations are expected to safeguard sensitive information and establish privacy policies. Legislation addressing specific types of sensitive data is found within various U.S. laws, such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.