Cybersecurity Concerns and Risks for Lawyers – May 2024

Speakers explore ethical obligations and professional responsibilities regarding the protection of electronic data and communication including: sources of lawyers’ ethical obligations and professional responsibilities and their application to electronic data and communication; protection of confidential, privileged and proprietary client and law office data and communication; client counseling and consent regarding electronic data, communication and storage protection policies, protocols, risks and privacy implications; security issues related to the protection of escrow funds; inadvertent or unauthorized electronic disclosure of confidential information, including through social media, data breaches and cyber attacks; and supervision of employees, vendors and third parties as it relates to electronic data and communication. 

Speakers

Hon. Ronald J. Hedges, Principal, Ronald Hedges LLC

Marissa J. Moran, J.D., Professor, Department of Law & Paralegal Studies, CUNY

Tyler S. Rexhouse, Esq., Hoffman Warnick LLC, Albany, NY

William S. Friedlander, Esq., Friedlander & Friedlander, P.C., Ithaca, NY

Kenneth A. Krajewski, Esq., Pillinger Miller Tarallo LLP, Buffalo, NY