Dentons: Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Litigation - 3/11

Dentons In-House Counsel Webinar Series 


12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EST

The Privacy-First Era: Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Litigation
As technology advances, including the proliferation of generative artificial intelligence based on large language models and large reasoning models, we expect not only more litigation, but new types of cases as well. Data privacy and breach litigation, which has become commonplace, is expected to continue following breaches, hacks, ransomware attacks, and state-sponsored actions. However, new issues are also emerging. For example, Meta and WhatsApp now face a lawsuit claiming that WhatsApp is not end-to-end encrypted and that employees can easily access and read private messages.

LLMs and LRMs are likely to spur new data privacy and cybersecurity disputes as their offensive use grows, including intrusions and DDoS attacks by agentic models, litigation against companies for the creation and dissemination of deepfakes using their models, and allegations that companies such as OpenAI are responsible for suicides and other physical and psychological harms. The issues described in the foregoing are not isolated or exclusive; they can spur securities fraud and derivative actions if the respective companies’ values fall. In addition, the interconnected ways that investments within the industry now occur can create contagion, where for example a “miss” by one entity cascades to others.

 

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST

Key Commercial Construction Contract Clauses, Getting Down to Brass Tacks
Commercial construction contracts can allocate risk in ways that expose organizations to significant legal and financial consequences if not carefully negotiated. This program will help in-house counsel identify and assess risks commonly found in standard form commercial construction contracts, with a focus on Changes and Differing Site Conditions, Delays and Extensions of Time, and Termination clauses. Presenters will discuss how these provisions operate in practice and share practical strategies for amending and negotiating contract language to better protect your organization’s interests while supporting successful deal execution.

  • James Newland, Partner, Washington, DC

  • Kim Pagotto, Partner, Washington, DC

  • Craig Nichols, Vice President, Design, Construction and Maintenance, Signet Jewelers

  • John Kranyak, Senior Vice President, Design, Construction & Store Preservation, Signet Jewelers         

 

CLE

CLE credit for the live webinars is being sought in Arizona, California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah and Virginia. Credit for all other states must be applied for and submitted by individual attendees. Compliance with each state's MCLE requirements is the sole responsibility of the attendee.

Dentons can only issue CLE credit for attendance during the live broadcast of the webinar. Credit for viewing a pre-recorded session is the responsibility of the individual.

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