Client Collaborations
All Representative Cases
Assisting companies with in-house training on best practices for preventing unauthorized access to data.
Assisted major global diversified manufacturing and marketing company with a data breach of social security numbers and other sensitive employee data.
Assisted nonprofit with an identity theft hacker intrusion on its human resources database. We drafted a data breach response process and developed a press release.
Assisted fast-food franchise managing a data breach caused by an IT software vendor. In conducting maintenance on their system, the vendor inadvertently took down the system's security.
Advised clinic in responding to a breach of patient health information. We also advised on issues regulated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Advised global internet company with developing and implementing responses to the Edward Snowden revelations regarding monitoring of internet traffic.
Advised government entity with homeland security issues regarding a data breach response program and information security issues. We trained in-house legal and IT staff on data security issues and participated in a simulated data breach exercise.
Helped plan sponsors with the correction of qualification failures in their qualified and 403(b) plans under EPCRS, through either self-correction or VCP filings. These failures included incorrect or untimely contributions, improper distributions, participation errors, testing failures, vesting failures, improper participant loans, and failures to amend. The recommended and implemented corrections enabled the plans to maintain their qualified status.
Assisted plan sponsors to correct various fiduciary breaches, including the failure to timely deposit elective deferrals, failure to hold plan assets in trust, exclusive benefit violations, prohibited transactions, and failure to properly value plan assets.