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Court Holds Forensic Investigator’s Report is Protected from Disclosure

May 23, 2017 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

Third-party forensic investigations performed at the direction of counsel are part-and-parcel of virtually every data breach.  There has been little case law, however, directly addressing the extent to which the attorney-client privilege and/or work product doctrine protects those forensic investigations from disclosure.  Last week, the Central District of California held that, under the specific facts […]

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