Pepper Attorneys Published in Cyber Risk Network, 'D&O's Best Defense Against Shareholder Demands Over Cybersecurity'
Pepper Hamilton partners Jan P. Levine and Angelo A. Stio III and associate Brian R. Zurich published the article, “D&O’s Best Defense Against Shareholder Demands Over Cybersecurity” in Cyber Risk Network on January 7, 2015.
U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler of the District of New Jersey recently provided much needed guidance to directors and officers on their duties and responsibilities with regard to cybersecurity. In Palkon v. Holmes, et al., Civil Action No. 2:14-CV-01234, Judge Chesler dismissed with prejudice a Wyndham Worldwide Corporation shareholder derivative action arising out of three data breaches that took place between April 2008 and January 2010.
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