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Privacy: Regulated Personal Information (RPI)
Winston’s Regulated Personal Information (RPI) Practice offers seamlessly integrated counseling and litigation services to companies looking for practical and solution-oriented assistance navigating the compliance, regulatory, and private class action enforcement risks presented by the emerging patchwork of complex (and often conflicting) privacy laws in the United States and beyond.
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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 2022, “Winston has one of the most impressive e-discovery practices in the world. They have top tier e-discovery consulting and document/data review services as well as one of the best e-discovery advocacy practices.” 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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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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Groupon, Inc. $80.0 Million Fully Backstopped Rights Offering for Common Stock
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|June 4, 2024
2024 Health Care & Life Sciences Summit
Winston & Strawn is pleased to host our Annual Health Care & Life Sciences Summit on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, both virtually and in person in our Chicago office.
Sponsorship
|May 15, 2024
Winston & Strawn Sponsors EF Hutton Annual Global Conference
Winston & Strawn is sponsoring the EF Hutton Annual Global Conference, which will feature innovative public and private companies from multiple industries in a close-knit, personalized setting. Instead of general presentations, the event adopts a one-on-one format. Key executives from public and private companies will share their distinctive stories with a diverse audience consisting of institutional investors, high-net-worth individuals, corporate clients, and select press members.
Seminar/CLE
|May 9, 2024
Winston’s Product & Mass Torts Summit Series 2024
Winston & Strawn is pleased to kick off our Product & Mass Tort Summit—a series of panels to be presented in key U.S. markets. The first one-hour CLE panel in the series will bring together Winston partners along with in-house counsel Bill Childs (Solventum) and David Mendelson (Abbott Laboratories) to dig into practical and actionable considerations for corporate counsel in managing product liability and mass tort cases.
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Law Glossary
What Is the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL)?
The Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) is a law passed by China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee, which aims to establish a personal information protection system with Chinese features that are also in line with international standards. PIPL provides a variety of rights for personal information subjects to strengthen their control of personal information, while imposing strict obligations to personal information handlers. The law entered into effect on November 1, 2021.
Law Glossary
What Is Theft of Confidential Information Law?
Theft of confidential information law is a legal area that covers both business information and customer data stolen from a company. When confidential data is stolen from a computer or a network, a company has the right to file a lawsuit against the responsible party under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. This law is also violated when hackers steal the personally identifiable information of consumers through unauthorized access to a network.
Law Glossary
What Is Privacy Assessment Law?
The Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is a method of privacy risk identification. It is an analysis of how personally identifiable information is collected, used, shared, and maintained by an organization’s system. Within the area of privacy assessment law, companies perform PIAs to verify and document that they are in compliance with state or federal privacy regulations for protecting personally identifiable information. The impact assessment identifies the risks of collecting and sharing personally identifiable information.