Reports on Wednesday that both Weil Gotshal & Manges and Cravath, Swaine & Moore as well as other firms have suffered data breaches in recent months, put new attention on the potential consequences for law firms with lax security.

“We’ve been saying for a long time that law firms are major targets,” said Jay Edelson, founder of Edelson, a plaintiff’s side class-action firm that focuses on privacy-related suits. . . .