November 2021 Bar Bulletin
By Barbara Engstrom
Ransomware attacks on Colonial Pipeline, JBS (the world’s largest meat processing plant), and various hospitals and schools became major news stories over the last year. Law firms were no strangers to cybersecurity risk either. The first well-publicized law firm attack was on DLA Piper in 2017. In early 2020 five law firms were attacked in short order, with three firms hit in a 24-hour period in February. 1 There were high profile attacks at the New York firm of Grubman, Shire, Meiselas & Sack in May of 2020, the Chicago firm Seyfarth Shaw in October of 2020 and,...