Legal Ethics, Cybersecurity, and Data Privacy: Navigating Risks, Protecting Client Data, Maintaining Compliance
A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A
This CLE webinar will discuss the key ethics rules and other laws governing a lawyer's duty regarding cybersecurity, privacy, and data protection matters. The panel will review the unique risks and privacy implications for lawyers and provide best practices for implementing measures to safeguard client data, remaining compliant with ethics rules and other laws, and avoiding breaches of professional responsibility and malpractice actions.
Outline
- Overview: cybersecurity and data privacy risks in the legal profession
- Data protection principles
- Cybersecurity risks in the legal setting
- ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct relating to a lawyer's duty to protect client data
- ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility's Formal Opinions 477R and 483
- States with enhanced data privacy and cybersecurity requirements for lawyers that go beyond the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct
- Other state, federal, and international laws regulating data privacy and protection: GDPR, HIPAA, Federal Trade Commission Act, CCPA, New York's SHIELD Act
- Strategies for implementing technical measures and administrative safeguards for data compliance to mitigate exposure to cybersecurity incidents
- Practitioner pointers and key takeaways
Benefits
The panel will examine these and other key considerations:
- Why are law firms and lawyers prime targets for cyberattacks and data breaches?
- How do the Model Rules of Professional Conduct govern a lawyer's duty to protect client data and minimize the risks of cyberattacks?
- What are other laws and regulations lawyers and firms must abide by with respect to data and cybersecurity?
- What specific cybersecurity measures are required to safeguard client data from hackers?
Faculty
Kathryn C. Nadro
Partner
Levenfeld Pearlstein
Ms. Nadro practices in the firm’s Corporate Group, advising clients on cybersecurity and data privacy matters.... | Read More
Ms. Nadro practices in the firm’s Corporate Group, advising clients on cybersecurity and data privacy matters. She helps clients navigate various data security and privacy issues and assists clients with policy drafting, program management, and data collection. Ms. Nadro also advises clients on best practices for compliance with evolving state, federal, and international data protection laws. If a data breach occurs, Ms. Nadro guides clients through the breach response process and relies on her previous litigation experience to advise clients through any potential legal claims or regulatory investigations. With previous experience as in-house counsel, Katie understands and is attuned to her clients’ business objectives. Ms. Nadro is a frequent writer and speaker on data security and privacy issues and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US).
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Amy E. Richardson
Partner, Chair Legal Ethics and Malpractice Group
HWG
Ms. Richardson’s practice focuses on legal ethics and professional responsibility matters, white collar defense,... | Read More
Ms. Richardson’s practice focuses on legal ethics and professional responsibility matters, white collar defense, and complex commercial litigation. She counsels and represents lawyers and law firms in disciplinary investigations and prosecutions, as well as malpractice matters. Ms. Richardson’s disciplinary experience includes matters before multiple state bars, the USPTO’s Office of Enrollment and Discipline, and the Office of Professional Responsibility. She has represented individual lawyers and law firms in high stakes arbitrations related to partner departures and also counsels and advises lawyers and law firms in partner admissions and departures and law firm dissolutions. Ms. Richardson teaches legal ethics and professional responsibility at Duke University School of Law and Georgetown Law.
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