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Ron leads the firm’s Privacy + Cyber team. Drawing from nearly 30 years of experience, he provides comprehensive services to companies in all aspects of privacy, security, data use, and risk mitigation. Clients rely on his in-depth understanding of technology and its application to their business to solve their most important challenges — from implementation and strategy to litigation and incident response. Ron and his team have redefined the boundaries of typical law firm privacy and cyber services in offering a 360 degree approach to tackling information governance issues. Their holistic services include drafting and implementing bespoke privacy programs, program implementation, licensing, financing and M&A transactions, incident response, privacy and cyber litigation, regulatory investigations, and enforcement experience.

Even high-tech companies with substantial in-house technical expertise may not be dealing with the most common type of cyber vulnerability. As technology geeks, we find it more interesting to talk about firewalls, proxy servers, router security, mobile device management, anonymization of data, encryption and the like. But technical security is not enough. Companies need to

On October 22, the United States Senate moved one step closer to passing the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) by taking the act under consideration for the full Senate.  The CISA claims to improve cybersecurity by encouraging the sharing of threat information among companies and the U.S. government.  

Specifically, the CISA would permit private entities

A new putative class action lawsuit has been filed against the hotel chain owned by Donald Trump in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, after the hotel chain revealed that it had been the subject of a data breach.  The suit asserts claims under “state consumer protection laws” and “state

SAN FRANCISCO, Ca. – Troutman Sanders LLP announced today that Hsiao (Mark) C. Mao has joined the firm as a partner in the San Francisco office. He is a member of the firm’s Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy practice. He joins the firm from Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck, where he was a Co-Chair of the

We are pleased to announce that Troutman Sanders partners David N. Anthony and Ronald I. Raether, Jr. will present “The Impact of Fair Credit Reporting Act in the Regulatory Enforcement and Developments of Financial Services” during a live webcast on Monday, November 16 from 3-5 p.m. EST.  The speakers will provide an overview of the

The American Bar Association released its 2015 Legal Technology Survey last week with one of the main takeaways being that companies and their law firm partners need closer cooperation to improve information security.

It is required by GLBA, PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards), HIPAA, and most recognized security standards, namely that covered

On September 24, IBM presented new capabilities of Watson – its artificial intelligence system – related to the interpretation of the increasingly vast amount of data available on consumer and business activities.  Watson, best known for its 2011 Jeopardy! victory against two of the game show’s previous champions, consists of an artificial intelligence system

Troutman Sanders LLP announced today that Ronald I. Raether, Jr. has joined the firm as a partner in the Orange County office and will play a significant role in both the firm’s Cybersecurity, Information Governance and Privacy and Financial Services Litigation practices. He joins the firm from Faruki Ireland & Cox P.L.L, where he led