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By Invitation Only, In Person

Cybersecurity And Trade Secrets: Protection

and Litigation 2024-2025

Updating Company Practices

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  • Featuring A Fireside Chat with the U.S. Attorney

Alamdar Hamdani and SEC Regional Director Eric Werner

  • Cybersecurity Threat Landscape

  • Cybersecurity Investigations, Litigation, and Class Actions

  • Restrictive Covenants and Non-Competes

  • Trade Secrets and Cybersecurity:

Challenges in Protecting Data/Information

  • Trade Secrets: Civil Litigation, including Damages

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Gibson Dunn Conference Center, 811 Main Street, Suite 3000

Houston

8:30 a.m. –1:00 p.m. CST

Includes breakfast, sandwich buffet, complimentary conference

FACULTY:

From the Government:

Alamdar Hamdani, U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Texas, Houston

Michael Chu, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Computer Hacking & Intellectual Property Coordinator, National Security/Public Corruption Section, United States Attorney's Office SDTX, U.S. Department of Justice, Houston

Brian F. Sawyer, Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Houston

Eric Werner, Regional Director, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Fort Worth

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Other Faculty:

Collin J. Cox, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Houston

Gregg J. Costa, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Houston

Erin Crockett, Principal, Intellectual Property Practice, Charles River Associates, Los Angeles

Michael A. Cromwell, Executive Counsel, Technology & Intellectual Property, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Spring, TX

Will Daugherty, Partner, Head of Cybersecurity, US, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, Houston

Andrew J. DeFilippis, Special Counsel, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York

Cordero Delgadillo, Counsel, Cybersecurity, United Airlines, Chicago

Michael Galdo, Counsel, King & Spalding LLP; Former Assistant US Attorney in Charge of Cybercrime, US Attorney’s Office – WDTX, Austin

David Isaak, Partner, Steptoe LLP, Houston

William Marsh, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Cactus Wellhead, Houston

Chris Peele, Founding Partner, PNT Law Firm, Dallas

Jonathan Rajewski, Vice President, Forensic Services, Charles River Associates, Houston

Noelle M. Reed, Partner, Securities Litigation; Complex Litigation and Trials, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates, Houston

William E. Ridgway, Partner, Co-Head, Cybersecurity and Data Privacy, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Chicago

Adam Smith, Artificial Intelligence, Privacy & Cybersecurity Regulatory Advisor, Southwest Airlines; Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.

These Blockbuster Cybersecurity /Trade Secrets Developments

Require Immediate Attention

Program

8:30 a.m. –1:00 p.m. CST

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Panel I:  Cybersecurity Update

  • Fireside Chat: View from the Government: U.S. Attorney’s Office, DOJ; SEC

  • Cybersecurity issues

    • SEC mandatory reporting rules for material cybersecurity incidents including 4-day notification deadline

    • Incident response by U.S. Attorney’s Office

    • Compliance and disclosure requirements from other agencies including U.S. Attorney’s Office, DOJ, FBI, DHS and States

    • False Claims Act Cybersecurity

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Panel II:  Cybersecurity Red Flag Issues

  • Threat landscape

  • Ransomware update

  • Breaches and hacks: new developments

  • Supply chain and other third-party complications and how to handle

  • Incident response planning and execution

  • Information sharing with the Government (voluntary and mandatory)

  • Notification obligations

  • AI and cyber

  • Affirmative civil litigation

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Panel III: Trade Secrets Update

  • Trade Secrets: Observations and priorities

    • Size of awards

    • Investigations; Government and internal

    • Damage awards

    • Enforcement

    • Restrictive covenants and non-disclosure agreements

  • Trade Secrets Theft: Civil Litigation

    • Various forums for civil litigation

    • Cooperation between civil litigation and Government investigations

    • Misappropriation update

    • Recent cases

  • Protection and Prevention

    • Corporate trade secrets best practices for employee protection

    • Interplay between trade secrets protection and cybersecurity.

    • Working AI into managing trade secrets risk

    • Managing risk and remediation with third parties, partners

    • Steps to take when misappropriation occurs

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Organized by:

Sandpiper Partners is an educational and consulting firm run by industry advisor, Lynn Glasser, who for more than 20 years has created important subject matter IP and Data Protection educational conferences and briefings, white papers and surveys for law firms and law departments. 

Lynn and Stephen Glasser founded The Computer Lawyer, The Internet Lawyer, The Privacy Law Report and other information law resources as well as organized over 1000 conferences in IP, litigation, corporate law, securities law, and finance.

SP is also known as the leading provider of “Business of Law” education for lawyer leaders and senior business executives. www.sandpiperpartners.com

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About the Premier Sponsor:

Charles River Associates is a leading global consulting firm that provides economic and financial analysis in litigation matters; delivers independent accounting and other forensic services; guides businesses through critical strategy and operational issues to become more profitable; and advises governments and regulatory agencies on the economic impact of policies and regulations. CRA has served major law firms, corporations, and governments around the world for more than fifty years, and we advise 83 of the Fortune 100 companies and 94 of the top 100 law firms.  CRA provides a wide range of services to assist companies and law firms in protecting, enforcing and litigating trade secrets through experts and consultants in its labor & employment, forensics investigations, and intellectual property practices. 

CLE and CPE credits have been applied for.

Questions? Email: ginarivera@sandpiperpartners.com OR Call 973-278-8800.

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