Data Privacy and Litigation - Part One

Data Privacy and Litigation - Part One Data Breach Response and Litigation

Privacy, data protection and cybersecurity are growing areas of concern for businesses, governments and individuals. The law in this area is rapidly evolving, and privacy and security breaches are regularly litigated in state and federal courts. Litigating & Defending CCPA and Data Breach Cases is an unfolding and growing portion of the litigation landscape.  Data breaches increased by 270% in 2020 and Cybersecurity litigation is growing in parallel.

Data breach class action litigation has begun under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as well as using national and multi-state litigation.  Bridgeport's two-part webinar series aims to cover a lot of ground.  The first 90 minute webinar will focus on Data Breach Response and Litigation. The second webinar will focus on Data Use and Usage Litigation.

Topics will include:

• State of Data Breach Laws
  • By Industry v. Generally
• Typical Response Events and Timeline
  • Determining Notice
  • Preserving Privilege
  • Globalization Issues
• Litigation
  • Standing: Nominal and Statutory Standing
  • Specific Causes of Action
  • Negligence
  • Breach of Contract
  • Fraud/Omission
  • UCL
  • Specific State Statutes
  • Class Certification
  • Settlement Trends
• Regulatory Trends
  • OCR/HHS fines
  • FTC Trends
  • Global Regulatory Trends

Faculty

Mark Mao of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP is the Regional Administrative Partner for the West Coast, and his practice focuses on intellectual property, data privacy, antitrust, and class actions.

Mark's practice focuses on intellectual property, data privacy, antitrust, and class actions. He has resolved more than 400 cases in litigation, and is the go-to litigator for his technology clients. Companies look to Mark as their trusted advisor and litigator in new areas of the law and emerging technologies. In 2020, Mark acted as an outside policy advisor to one of the U.S. presidential candidates, while also working on the passage of the California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act.

John A. Yanchunis leads the Class Action Department at Morgan and Morgan, where he has served as lead, co-lead, or class counsel in numerous class actions in a wide variety of areas affecting consumers, including Data Privacy, Data Breach, unfair and deceptive practices and multidistrict class action litigation.  He serves in leadership positions in numerous national cases including In re: Yahoo! Inc., In re Equifax, Inc., and many more.

This program is approved for 1.5 hrs of CA MCLE general credt hours.

Bridgeport is a State Bar of CA provider of MCLE (Provider 11872) This program offers 1.5 hrs of MCLE. Bridgeport will assist attorneys from outside CA obtain CLE in accordance with the rules of their state.