Practice Areas
Cyber
Overview
Cyber law covers a wide range of issues, including online communication, e-commerce, and digital privacy. The LGWM cyber team understands the complex issues associated with cyber law. Our team counsels clients on compliance with regulatory and industry-specific issues, and litigates related legal actions.
LGWM has defended numerous lawsuits resulting from cyber and privacy matters, including data privacy and information security liability claims. We have handled matters involving complex phishing schemes, spoofing, hacking, identity theft, ransomware, and more. We have worked with a wide-range of professionals involved in these matters, including insurance agents, financial institutions, accountants, and lawyers.
LGWM also has served as counsel in assessing coverage issues associated with cybersecurity breaches and responses.
The LGWM cyber team represents parties involved in cybersecurity breaches in litigation, arbitration, and mediation. LGWM has attorneys admitted to federal and state courts in Alabama, California, the District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, and Tennessee.
Practice Leader
Cases of Note
- Represented client against subrogation action after fraudster impersonated the client and convinced a customer to wire funds to the fraudster’s account. Successfully convinced subrogating insurer to drop its pursuit of the client by demonstrating the defrauded customer lacked appropriate protocols for guarding against cyber fraud.
- Represented insurance agent against negligent procurement claim under cyber/crime policies in connection with fraud event implicating fraudulently induced transfer coverage.
- Represented client against allegations arising from a fraudster hacking into a computer network in order to import an email-forwarding rule to steal sensitive billing information.
- Represented title agent on a spoofing/fraudulent transfer case where funds were wired to the wrong bank account based on fraudulent instructions from an imposter.
- Represented title agent on a spoofing/fraudulent transfer case where funds were wired to the wrong bank account based on fraudulent instructions from an imposter.
- Represented attorney after paralegal inadvertently exposed financial information for firm clients resulting in fraudulent credit card applications.
- Represented insurer in coverage dispute involving the scope of privacy remediation expenses available for a privacy data breach and underlying FTC investigation.
- Represented insurer in coverage dispute involving installation of malware on a national restaurant chain’s point of sale system in efforts to steal customers’ credit card information.
- Represented insurer in subrogation action involving an underlying cyber incident response loss that implicated both digital data recovery coverage and network extortion coverage.
- Represented insurer in coverage dispute involving waiver/estoppel issues under a cyber E&O policy.
- Represented insurer in coverage litigation involving alleged damages incurred by the insured in repairing/replacing fiber optic cable that was designed/manufactured for a national telecommunications company.
- Advised insurer on current state of national case law regarding whether data breach investigatory reports are protected work product in data breach lawsuits.