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Law firms tout cybersecurity cred
Posted Mar 31, 2013
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Wall Street Journal
As data breaches and cybercrime become a bigger concern for companies, law firms are touting secrecy in their efforts to win business. Companies on the losing-side of data-breach class-action litigation pay an average settlement award of $2,500 per plaintiff, with attorney fees averaging around $1.2 million, according to a survey released last year by Temple University Beasley School of Law.