Greenberg Traurig Shareholder, Jena M. Valdetero, U.S. Co-chair of the Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Group, will present the Strafford webinar, “SEC Cybersecurity Enforcement Authority After SolarWinds Ruling: Mitigating Exposure to Securities Fraud Liability,” on Oct. 9. This webinar will discuss the important cybersecurity points. Including the Southern District of New York’s ruling
GT Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice Shareholder Darren Abernethy was a guest on the She Said Privacy/He Said Security Podcast presented by Red Clover Advisors. In this episode, titled “The Future of Ad Tech: Privacy-Savvy Strategies for Businesses,” Darren discusses alternatives to third-party cookies and provides practical AdTech privacy considerations for in-house counsel and privacy
Fred Karlinsky, chair of Greenberg Traurig’s Insurance Regulatory and Transactions Practice, is the featured guest on episode 6 of ThriveDX’s Net Impact podcast hosted by Fred Menachem, which explores the crucial intersection of cybersecurity law and insurance regulation.
Fred discusses how businesses can protect themselves from growing cyber threats, the evolving role of
Greenberg Traurig Shareholder Reena Bajowala will present the Strafford webinar “New EU Artificial Intelligence Act: Impact on U.S. Organizations, Strategies to Ensure Compliance” Tuesday, Sept. 10 from 1–2:30 p.m. EDT. This CLE course will explore the AI Act’s regulatory framework, summarize key points U.S. organizations need to understand, and provide practical steps for
In July 2022, two relators sued the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech) under the FCA. The allegations include violations of the FCA and employment law, based on the “increasing retaliation” experienced by the relators after they escalated their concerns.
Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP continues the expansion of its White Collar Defense & Investigations Practice with the addition of Tracy S. Combs in the San Francisco office. During Combs’ eight-year tenure at the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), she served in a variety of roles in Salt Lake City and San Francisco
On Aug. 2, 2024, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed SB 2979 into law, amending BIPA in two ways: significantly limiting potential damages and updating the Act’s definition of “written release” to include an “electronic signature.”
Greenberg Traurig Shareholder Tracy Combs spoke at the CISO Summit at Black Hat USA 2024 in a session titled “Navigating the Regulatory Landscape: A Fireside Chat on SEC Actions and Corporate Responses” Tuesday, Aug. 6. The event, tailored for chief information security officers (CISOs) and senior security executives, focused on providing insights into
Greenberg Traurig Germany, LLP is strengthening its Data Protection Practice with new Partner Philip Radlanski. Radlanski joins from Morrison Foerster, where he helped shape ground-breaking projects and proceedings in Berlin and New York over the past eight years.
As Europe’s data protection laws expand beyond the EU, and data protection authorities take more rigorous
A U.S. district court dismissed all the SEC’s securities fraud and false filings claims against SolarWinds and its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Timothy Brown regarding the adequacy of cyberattack disclosures, finding that the SEC had impermissibly relied on “hindsight and speculation” to find those disclosures fraudulent. The court also dismissed the SEC’s claims that