Law firms merge cybersecurity practice

By Erin Ayers on February 19, 2015

The newly combined law firms of Locke Lord and Edwards Wildman announced this week that they have merged their privacy and cybersecurity practices to offer clients assistance with protecting and managing their personal data, information assets and other cyber risk exposures. The practice consists of over 40 lawyers across the United States and London, Hong Kong, and Istanbul, with backgrounds in insurance, finance, retail, healthcare, energy, intellectual property, and litigation.

“We help clients protect and manage personal data as well as proprietary and other information assets and other cyber risk exposures.  We guide them in meeting their legal, regulatory and contractual obligations concerning the collection, use, transmission, storage and destruction of data and in mitigating cybersecurity risks. We also represent clients in privacy related litigation, including class action defense, in jurisdictions throughout the United States, and in regulatory proceedings in the U.S. and UK,” noted the law firm in a press release.

More information can be found by visiting the firm at www.lockelord.com.

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Erin is the managing editor of Advisen’s Front Page News. She has been covering property-casualty insurance since 2000. Previously, Erin served as editor-in-chief of The Standard, New England’s Insurance Weekly. Erin is based in Boston, Mass. Contact Erin at [email protected].