Hunton & Williams LLP

Hunton & Williams LLP provides legal services to corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals, as well as to a broad array of other entities. Since our establishment more than a century ago, Hunton & Williams has grown to more than 1,000 attorneys serving clients in 100 countries from 19 offices around the world. While our practice has a strong industry focus on energy, financial services and life sciences, the depth and breadth of our experience extends to more than 100 separate practice areas, including bankruptcy and creditors rights, commercial litigation, corporate transactions and securities law, intellectual property, international and government relations, regulatory law, products liability, and privacy and information management.

FTC Publishes Identity Theft Program Template for Low-Risk Entities
July 1, 2009
On May 13, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") published a compliance template designed to assist financial institutions and creditors "at low risk for identity theft " in developing the Identity Theft Prevention Program required by the FTC's Identity Theft Red Flags and...

French Data Protection Authority Issues 2008 Annual Activity Report
July 1, 2009
On May 13, 2009, the French Data Protection Authority ("CNIL") published its Annual Activity Report. The Report highlights increasing enforcement activity, noting a record number of investigations, formal notifications and fines.

French Senate Issues Report On Right to Privacy in the Digital Age
July 1, 2009
On June 3, 2009, the French Senate's Commission on Laws issued a report on the right to privacy in the digital age ('La vie privée à l'heure des mémoires numériques') (the "Report").