Employers Face New Biometric Privacy Suits as Litigators Revive Old Illinois Law
"Until someone disincentivizes the plaintiffs not to bring the cases and there's no real opportunity for making money from it, the ambiguity and angst surrounding the statute is going to encourage more filings," said Sean G. Wieber, who serves as the co-chair of Winston & Strawn's global privacy and data security practice.
$2.7M Stolen From Texas Law Firm: Inside the Fraud
An accounting manager embezzled $2.7 million from a Lubbock law firm. The embezzlement came to light after the personal injury law firm hired an forensic accountant to investigate accounting manager, Emily Ann Anderson. U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix sentenced Anderson to five years in federal prison.