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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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Experience
|December 8, 2023
Winston Represented Interlock Equity in Investment in evolv Consulting
Experience
|October 3, 2023
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|September 26, 2024
Public Company Priorities Breakfast or Lunch Program
Join us for Winston & Strawn’s Public Company Advisory series, where our seasoned attorneys will delve into the latest hot topics affecting Public Companies.
News
|August 15, 2024
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Key Takeaways From Winston’s Fourth Annual Health Care & Life Sciences Summit
Members of Winston’s Health Care & Life Sciences Industry Group gathered for the firm’s fourth annual Health Care & Life Sciences Summit, in our Chicago office and virtually, on June 4, 2024.
In the Media
|August 14, 2024
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Erin Weber Discusses Home Depot ERISA Win with Law360
Winston & Strawn partner Erin Weber was quoted in a Law360 article analyzing the recent Eleventh Circuit ruling backing Home Depot's summary judgment win against a class of plan participants who argued that their 401(k) plan was mismanaged, violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”). The court held that the plaintiffs had not met their burden to show that the defendants’ conduct caused losses to the plan. Thus, even if the plaintiffs ultimately showed that the defendants’ conduct was imprudent, they could not prevail. The three-judge panel’s decision adds to a split between circuit courts on the question of which party must prove loss causation to prevail on ERISA claims of retirement plan mismanagement. The Eleventh Circuit joined the Tenth Circuit in rejecting plan participants’ theory that the burden of proving loss causation should shift to the employer if plaintiffs can show a fiduciary breach and that the plan suffered a loss.
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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:
Law Glossary
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.