Legal Backgrounders

March 27, 2015

Legal Backgrounders

Targeting Harm from a Data Breach: Federal Judge Lets Plaintiffs Get Away with Kitchen-Sink Pleading

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Robert M. McKenna is a partner in the Seattle office of the law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. Mr. McKenna was Attorney General of Washington from 2005 to 2013, and serves on Washington Legal Foundation’s Legal Policy Advisory Board. Scott Lindlaw was an associate with Orrick in its Silicon Valley office until March 13. He will be joining the strategic communications firm Sard Verbinnen & Co.

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