Home Depot Plaintiffs May Use Target’s Lead Counsel

[Audrey McNeil <audrey () riskbasedsecurity com>]

http://www.pymnts.com/news/2015/home-depot-plaintiffs-may-use-target-s-lead-counsel/#.VNO3AZ3F-So

Buoyed by the success of the Target data theft case back in 2013, the main
counsels of that case will now be part of the plaintiff’s general counsel
in the Home Depot multi-district litigation case regarding that company’s
own experience with data hackers between April and September 2014 that left
over 56 million credit and debit cards exposed, according to Caroline
Simson of Law360.

Following a series of meetings and discussions, the plantiffs, who
represent the consumers affected by this breach as well as associated
financial institutions, agreed to form a leadership structure that has
unanimous support from all counsels. Among those that will be part of the
structure include Georgia firms The Barnes Law Group LLC and Harris Penn
Lowry LLP, which have experience in customer data breach litigation, as
well as Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP and Morgan & Morgan Complex Litigation
Group, which formed a key part of Target’s data breach case back in 2013,
also a multi-district litigation case.

“The proposed structure includes Roy Barnes and his partner John Bevis of
The Barnes Law Group LLC as liaison counsel; and David J. Worley and James
M. Evangelista of Harris Penn Lowry LLP, founding partner Norman E. Siegel
and Barrett J. Vahle of Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP, and John A. Yanchunis of
Morgan & Morgan Complex Litigation Group as the co-lead and interim class
counsel in the litigation,” cited Simson. The structure includes most
groups that have either dealt directly with the Target case, or who have a
history with similar consumer data cases as well as being exclusively
plantiff law firms.

The case was centralized by the U.S. Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in
December, and will be heard in the United States District Court in the
Northern District of Georgia. Home Depot is represented in the consumer
cases by King & Spalding LLP, and in the financial institution cases by
Alston & Bird LLP.

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