Attorneys Frederic Bellamy and Mark Freeze of Steptoe & Johnson examine the ground-breaking TJX litigation in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts involving the largest known data base security breach in history. The authors take particular note of the court's decisions on: (i) whether electronic data should be defined as property for the tort of conversion, and (2) whether the facts in the TJX litigation support a claim by a group of plaintiff banks for negligent misrepresentation against the TJX companies. Analyzing the court's actions in this litigtion offers the authors the chance to speculate on how these important issues will be treated by future courts. Authors Bellamy and Freeze are award-winning authors who have been recongnized by their peers for outstanding contributions to their fields of expertise.

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