Critical Cybersecurity Issues for Counseling Clients
This program is part of the 2025 Professional Development Workshop Series – for more information on the Series, view the brochure here 2025 Professional Development Workshop Series.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025 | 9:00 am - 10:45 am
Free for New York City Bar Members & Attorneys from Sponsoring Law Firms*
Attorneys from sponsoring law firms: To ensure your free registration, please register using your law firm email address.
Format: Webinar
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Description:
While everyone faces the risk of identity theft, high net worth individuals, company founders, political leaders, and other individuals face a different set of risks. This seminar will examine how counsel can partner with security professionals to protect client reputations, identities, and assets.
Topics will include:
- Risk identification
- Negotiating managed services contracts
- Finding and challenging identity misuse
- Applicable insurance matters
- Understanding key legal ethical requirements related to cybersecurity
- Your role as counsel in cybersecurity breaches
CLE Credit:
New York: 2.0 Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection – General
New Jersey: 2.0 General
California: 2.0 General
Pennsylvania: 1.5 General
Connecticut: Available to Licensed Attorneys
For New York Attorneys: Effective through June 30, 2025 newly admitted attorneys (those admitted to the New York State Bar for two years or less) may earn skills credits via the City Bar's live webcasts and live groupcasts. For more information, click here).
For New York Attorneys: This program is a transitional/non-transitional course.
Program Fee:
Free for New York City Bar Members & Attorneys from Sponsoring Law Firms | Non-Members: $75
Speaker:
Paul Bond and Sophie L. Kletzien, Holland & Knight
Paul Bond, Partner, Holland & Knight, is a litigation attorney who focuses his practice in the areas of data security and privacy. He defends clients from tech- and data-related class actions that often arise following cyberattacks, such as ransomware. Mr. Bond also defends website operators against claims brought under federal and state laws such as the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) and federal and state wiretap prohibitions. He defends clients in major cybersecurity and hacking litigation in the business-to-business and employment contexts.
Mr. Bond counsels company founders, senior management and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and households in hardening their defenses against identity theft and responding to identity theft emergencies. Mr. Bond serves on the board of directors of the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a national nonprofit dedicated to assisting victims of identity theft, and is the chair of their Governance Committee. He is also a Certified Identity Protection Advisor, as certified by the Identity Management Institute (IMI), and is an adviser to the firm on the legal aspects of data protection. Additionally, Mr. Bond is an adjunct professor at Rutgers Law School, teaching Privacy Law Essentials for Corporate Counsel and Internet Law. He is the program chair for the Practising Law Institute's Cybersecurity Best Practices for Lawyers. He served as an instructor of Information Security Law in the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Executive Education and Certification Program at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College. After law school, Mr. Bond served a clerkship for the Honorable Peter G. Verniero of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
Sophie Kletzien is an attorney in Holland & Knight's New York office and a member of the Data Strategy, Security & Privacy Practice Group. Ms. Kletzien handles a range of litigation matters with a focus on consumer class action defense involving data security and privacy claims. Her representative matters include defense of putative class actions relating to cyber attacks, automated website data collection, wiretap claims and unfair business practices. On the advisory side of her practice, Ms. Kletzien advises clients on federal, state and international data protection and privacy laws, including the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) and Illinois Student Online Personal Protection Act (SOPPA). She also assists clients across many industries with data breach response protocols and crisis management, regulatory compliance, information governance strategy and compliance with industry security standards and frameworks. Ms. Kletzien is a Certified Information Privacy Professional in the United States (CIPP/US) with the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Ms. Kletzien also has experience in the fantasy sports, esports and gaming industries, where she advises businesses in connection with advertising, marketing and promotional services related to operations within those industries. She also advises clients in connection with the sale of state lottery products and related regulatory concerns. During law school, Ms. Kletzien worked as a federal judicial intern in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, as well as a legal extern at the University of Pennsylvania Office of General Counsel. She served as a mediator in the Penn Law Mediation Clinic, where she handled cases involving personal injury, contract law and employment discrimination. She was also an editor of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, as well as the publicity chair of University of Pennsylvania's Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA). Prior to attending law school, Ms. Kletzien served as a judicial intern in the Superior Court of New Jersey, as well as a legal intern in the Special Federal Litigation Division of the New York City Law Department.
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Thank you to our Sponsoring Law Firms:
A&O Shearman · Arnold & Porter LLP · Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP · Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP · Davis & Gilbert LLP · Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP · Debevoise & Plimpton LLP · Dechert LLP · Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP · Jenner & Block LLP · Kelley Drye & Warren LLP · King & Spalding LLP · Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP · Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP · Milbank LLP · New York City Law Department · O’Melveny & Myers LLP · Outten & Golden LLP · Proskauer Rose LLP · Seward & Kissel LLP· Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP · Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP · Thompson Coburn LLP · Venable LLP · Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz · White & Case LLP · Winston & Strawn LLP