Another Court Holds a Third-Party Cyber Forensics Report as NOT Privileged
By EsqSocial Corporation 15/01/21
On January 12, 2021, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia joined the growing list of courts that have held that reports generated by third-party forensics firms in response to a cyberattack are not protected from discovery in subsequent litigation. What’s especially interesting about the case, Wengui v. Clark Hill, PLC, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 5395 (D.D.C. Jan. 12, 20201), is that the cyberattack victim, a law firm, argued that it had commissioned two reports in its...
By: White and Williams LLP