NYC Pro Bono Center

In today's information-driven society and marketplace, understanding the strategic relationship of information to an organization is critical in ensuring the success, and even survival, of that organization. Electronic discovery has become a vital part of legal cases. Trade secrets are increasingly kept in digital form throughout an organization on a global scale. Data breach and the loss of personal information has the potential to bankrupt any business.

So whether the information handled by any organization takes the form of e-mail correspondence, text messages, electronic health records, intellectual property files, economic intelligence, audit logs of databases or e-files, audio files, or Internet searches, most attorneys encounter the need to understand the issues surrounding an organization's requirement to locate, obtain, and secure electronic data during their day-to-day practice.

Attorney and information privacy and security expert Kenneth P. Mortensen, former acting chief privacy and civil liberties officer at the U.S. Department of Justice and adjunct professor in the Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool), will lead this free, two-hour seminar for attorneys and legal professionals on the legal issues surrounding strategic information management, including data protection and theft.

Following the seminar, there will be an informal reception for participants to network with Prof. Mortsensen and each other. They can also hear about another opportunity to improve their data security skills this summer.