Laura Schwartz

Counsel

Overview

Laura Schwartz is a counsel in Crowell & Moring's Los Angeles office, where she is a member of the Commercial Litigation and White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement groups. Laura represents corporate and individual clients in high stakes litigation including healthcare fraud, intellectual property and trade secrets theft, data privacy, and related criminal investigations in state and federal courts. Her clients include Fortune 500 companies, multinational health care services and investment bank and financial services companies, university systems, and technology start-ups.

Prior to joining Crowell & Moring, Laura served as a law clerk to the Hon. Jay C. Gandhi, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

During law school, Laura served as notes and comments editor for the Emory Law Journal.

Career & Education

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    • University of Pennsylvania, B.A., political science, 2004
    • Columbia University, M.A., 2007
    • Emory University School of Law, J.D., Order of the Coif, 2012
    • University of Pennsylvania, B.A., political science, 2004
    • Columbia University, M.A., 2007
    • Emory University School of Law, J.D., Order of the Coif, 2012
    • California
    • New Jersey
    • New York
    • California
    • New Jersey
    • New York

Laura's Insights

Client Alert | 2 min read | 01.30.24

Short-Term Messages, Long-Term Consequences – New Guidelines from Antitrust Authorities on Ephemeral Messages

As collaboration tools and ephemeral messaging applications become ubiquitous in the modern workplace, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) are making clear that their content must be preserved like traditional modes of communication. On Friday, January 26, the DOJ and the FTC announced that they are updating language in their standard preservation letters and specifications for all second requests, voluntary access letters, and compulsory legal process, including grand jury subpoenas. Manish Kumar, Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the DOJ’s Antitrust Division in charge of criminal enforcement, noted that both DOJ and the FTC expect that companies and their current and former employees will preserve any and all responsive messages, regardless of their default settings to autodelete. An intentional failure to produce these communications may be treated as obstruction of justice....

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Laura's Insights

Client Alert | 2 min read | 01.30.24

Short-Term Messages, Long-Term Consequences – New Guidelines from Antitrust Authorities on Ephemeral Messages

As collaboration tools and ephemeral messaging applications become ubiquitous in the modern workplace, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) are making clear that their content must be preserved like traditional modes of communication. On Friday, January 26, the DOJ and the FTC announced that they are updating language in their standard preservation letters and specifications for all second requests, voluntary access letters, and compulsory legal process, including grand jury subpoenas. Manish Kumar, Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the DOJ’s Antitrust Division in charge of criminal enforcement, noted that both DOJ and the FTC expect that companies and their current and former employees will preserve any and all responsive messages, regardless of their default settings to autodelete. An intentional failure to produce these communications may be treated as obstruction of justice....