Labaton Sucharow LLP

While our world grows increasingly digital, Labaton Sucharow remains steadfast in its commitment to consumer protection.

Our nascent data-driven culture has propelled Labaton Sucharow’s litigation practice in the area of data privacy and cybersecurity. Standing on the horizon of law and technology, our Data Privacy and Security Litigation Practice is leveraging over 50 years of complex, multijurisdictional litigation experience to protect consumers who have been harmed by businesses’ failures to safeguard their customers’ data.

Not only do we have a long track record of successful litigation, but we also have the technical know-how to investigate emerging forms of data privacy and security violations in all industries. Labaton Sucharow’s attorneys are supported by a robust infrastructure of licensed investigators.

While storing information in the cloud or downloading an app may make everyday life a little easier, it can also be extremely detrimental, even life-threatening, when a company fails to protect its customers’ personal information. We represent individuals who have been harmed by large data breaches as well as companies who wrongfully use their customers’ data. Wrongful use of private information can include collecting biometric data such as facial recognition technology, and recording without user’s consent.

Currently, our team is working on the Facebook Biometric Information Privacy Litigation. In this photo-tagging case, we represent plaintiffs who have been harmed by Facebook’s violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.

Committed to fairness and equality for our clients and for ourselves.

Labaton Sucharow believes that a variety of viewpoints and backgrounds leads to better insight and better lawyers. We strive to improve diversity within the Firm and the legal profession as a whole.

Fifty years ago, the founding partners of Labaton Sucharow established a platform to promote fairness in business enterprise. It worked. Over the last five decades, our Firm has earned global recognition for extraordinary success in securing historic recoveries and reform for investors and consumers. That's justice in action.

But let's face it: a commitment to fairness and equality does not begin with client engagements. It begins with our people.

We firmly believe that there is strength and value in diversity and we actively aim to hire minority and female attorneys, professionals and staff. We have built a work environment where everyone can thrive: an environment where our practices and programs support our values.

The Labaton Sucharow Minority Scholarship and Internship

Demonstrating our commitment to diversity in law and to introduce minority students to Labaton Sucharow, in 2006 we established the Labaton Sucharow Minority Scholarship and Internship. The annual award -- a grant and a summer associate position -- is presented to a first-year minority student from a metropolitan New York law school who has demonstrated academic excellence, community commitment and personal integrity. Several scholarship recipients are now full-time attorneys with the Firm.

The Firm has also instituted a diversity internship in which we invite two students from Hunter College to join us each summer. These interns are rotated through our various departments, shadowing Firm partners and getting a feel for the inner workings of a law firm.