Cybersecurity Business Law Blog

Shawn E. Tuma
www.shawnetuma.com

Shawn Tuma is a partner at Scheef & Stone, L.L.P., a full service business law firm with offices in Dallas and Frisco, Texas.

Scheef & Stone, L.L.P. helps clients with all civil matters including a full range of transaction, litigation, technology, and general counseling legal services. What makes Scheef & Stone, L.L.P. unique for a mid-size firm is its expertise in information security, computer fraud, privacy, and cyber law – what it refers to as Business Cyber Risk.

Shawn Tuma is a business litigation attorney who handles a full range of business disputes ranging from negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and trial of legal disputes involving businesses. He is experienced in a full array of lawsuits involving companies from the basics of issues like breach of contract, tortious interference, breach of fiduciary duty, and fraud to more particularized issues such as intellectual property / IP law issues like litigation involving patents, trade and service marks, copyright, unfair competition and trade secrets, as well as the new Texas Uniform Trade Secrets Act (TUTSA). Tuma’s expertise really sets him apart when it comes to the highly particularized areas of law like digital information law, cyber law, computer law, Internet law, information law, data law, or any other variation on that area which includes things such as the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), Wiretap Act, Stored Communications Act (SCA), social media law, data breach, and data breach responses. It is not uncommon for Tuma to serve as either an “off the pleadings” consultant to other attorneys as well as local counsel in the United States District Court Eastern District of Texas or the District Courts of Collin County, Texas for cases involving these issues.

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