Today, cybersecurity experts often say businesses have either already experienced a cyber-attack or will undoubtedly in the future. While good progress has been made in establishing comprehensive incident response and increasing cybersecurity awareness, attorneys must also meet ethical obligations in understanding the technology, as well as monitoring responding to cyber incidents. In our increasingly digitized world, these responsibilities, outlined in the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, are critical to attorneys’ practice and client representation. This seminar provides attorneys with guidance on their ethical duties and insights from expert practitioners on meeting the challenge of technology.  

In this seminar, our expert panelists begin by introducing the ethical concerns that data breaches can create. Our speakers then go on to outline the responsibilities that attorneys have when dealing with a data breach incident using the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. The experts will focus on the necessity of having foundational knowledge on the methods of protecting client data and the violations that could incur. The panelists will then go through the various rules related to the notice of data breach. They will summarize the obligations of reporting to current and former clients. Finally, the panelists will engage in a lively discussion of some of the less clearly defined rules and how they are interpreted by lawyers and courts.  

This course is brought to you by the Global Cyber Institute and Thomson Reuters and is nationally accredited.