On January 12, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a motion to compel production of allegedly privileged cybersecurity documents in Guo Wengui v. Clark Hill, PLC, 1:19-cv-03195.  In doing so, the Court determined that the Defendant’s cybersecurity assessment was neither covered by work product protection nor attorney client privilege because the Defendant law firm would have investigated the breach in the same way as a business function.
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