Orrick Joins Automation Market with Fixed Fee Data Privacy Tool

Orrick is entering the nascent market for automated legal products this week, launching a tool that the large law firm says helps companies build their own data privacy programs to comply with the complicated web of laws being passed around the globe.

Solutions Over Answers: “Clients are asking us for solutions versus answers,” said Tony Kim, a cyber, privacy and data partner involved in developing the product, which will compete with tools already offered by Wilson Sonsini’s SixFifty. “Answers are responses to questions like, ‘What’s the law say?’ Solutions consider the client’s business perspective.”

Trendy Pricing: Orrick’s “Privacy in a Box” product will initially be priced at $30,000, which includes 50 hours of lawyer time to customize the product and provide more high-level advice. Roy Strom has more in this week’s Big Law Business column.

DAILY BRIEF

Law Firms

Latham, DLA Piper Guide As DC Capital Adds Defense Contractor
Latham & Watkins advised Alexandria, Va.-based DC Capital Partners in a deal to add to its portfolio Digital Force Technologies, a designer and builder of hardware and software products for government agencies’ special operations.

Business of Law

Minnesota Latest State to Test Limited Legal License Program
Minnesota is the latest state to test a paraprofessional limited licensing scheme to help low income residents afford legal help in civil matters.

Bimbo Bakeries Label Deal Gets Final Nod but Attorneys’ Fees Cut
Bimbo Bakeries USA Inc. and consumers alleging it deceptively marketed Sara Lee, Entenmann’s, Thomas’, and other baked good brands got final approval of an injunctive relief class settlement, but a California federal court cut the attorneys’ fees and allowed no incentive awards for the named plaintiffs.

New York Courts to Cut $300 Million as State Deficit Grows
The New York State Court system is freezing all hiring, cutting spending, and denying most elected judges requests for recertification in an effort to cut about $300 million from its budget as the state faces a growing deficit.

Ethics

N.Y. Lawyer Who Didn’t Pay Registration for Years Suspended
A New York lawyer who was part of a mass suspension of lawyers in 2010 for not filing registration statements and paying registration fees was suspended for more than three years by a state appeals court for the unauthorized practice of law.

Pension Fund Loses Allergan Class Status as Judge Rips Lawyers
Boston Retirement System lost its bid to lead a securities class action over potential links between Allergan Plc’s breast implants and a rare blood cancer, with a Manhattan federal judge rebuking the pension fund and its attorneys for “utterly disingenuous” fee splitting arrangements that defied a previous court order.

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WAKE-UP CALL

Ex-Pierce Partners Launch Black-Owned Firm
In today’s column, the Covid-bonus train may be at risk of derailing after O’Melveny became the third Big Law firm to say it won’t offer them to associates; Microsoft named Perkins Coie and Latham for “special recognition” in its program aimed at boosting diversity of its outside law firms. It also said its expanding the program’s “bonus pool”; Arnold & Porter is closing its office in Germany; Mintz is the latest firm to launch a new practice aimed at advising companies looking to tap into the $12 trillion market for sustainable and socially responsible investments; a judge said five former Nixon Peabody partners must arbitrate their bonus dispute with the firm; a judge temporarily blocked South Carolina’s $75 million payment to two firms who worked on a plutonium cleanup settlement.

PRACTITIONER INSIGHTS

Botox Case Cause Wrinkles at the ITC
The U.S. International Trade Commission is set to review findings of an administrative law judge, giving Evolus Inc. a second chance to persuade the ITC to allow the importation of Jeuveau, a rival to the Botox wrinkle treatment made by Allergan. Daniel R. Pearson, a former ITC chairman and commissioner, says this case is forcing the ITC to look at technical legal issues and broader policy questions that could expand its jurisdiction.

Women of Color in Law: Visibility Does Not Equal Advancement
Law firm policies aimed at simply recruiting minority women are insufficient to advance the careers of women attorneys of color, Arizona attorney Ilya E. Lerma says. Long-term solutions concentrated on retention and growth could slow attrition, as would acknowledgment that women and women of color shouldn’t be lumped together and tallied in a box labeled “progress” just yet.

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