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Civil Litigation,
Data Privacy

Jun. 7, 2024

Lead counsel named in 23andMe litigation

23andMe, which recently announced a new goal of mining genetic data and partnering with pharmaceutical companies for research and development, has faced dozens of lawsuits related to the cyberattack.

The federal judge in San Francisco overseeing consolidated litigation against DNA testing service 23andMe related to a data breach affecting millions of people appointed lead counsel for the plaintiffs, citing several factors including experience with multidistrict proceedings.

Gayle M. Blatt, a partner at Casey Gerry Schenk Francavilla Blatt & Penfield LLP, and Cari C. Laufenberg, a partner at Keller Rohrback LLP, and Norman E. Siegel, a partner at Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP, <...

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