Harter Secrest & Emery is pleased to present its 2025 Specialty CLE Summit, an event designed to provide you, our in-house counsel clients and friends, with continuing legal education credits that can often be more challenging to obtain— Ethics; Cybersecurity – Ethics; and Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias.
Please join us on Thursday, May 1, 2025 from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm for presentations approved for New York State CLE credit and that are appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys. Registration is available for in-person and virtual attendance. We hope you can join us for one, two or all three CLE presentations. For those who can participate in-person, lunch will be provided “to go” or to enjoy onsite while networking with peers and your HSE friends. See the complete schedule below, and please register to join us!
Summit Schedule:
8:30 am to 9:00 am
Breakfast and Registration
9:00 am to 10:00 am
Ethical Considerations in Cyber, Privacy, and AI
Few areas of the law are as dynamic as data protection and AI regulation. Adding to this complexity are the ethics involved in representing internal and external clients in these matters, communicating with stakeholders, and dealing with employees as well as external players, including law enforcement.
Join chair of the firm’s Privacy and Data Security and Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies Practice Groups, F. Paul Greene, for this timely and important presentation addressing the ethical considerations surrounding cyber, privacy and AI matters, including creating and maintaining the attorney-client privilege, determining who the client is, conflicts, and working with third parties. Paul will also discuss guidance on usage of AI in the practice at law.
The presentation will draw on real-life scenarios to discuss the ethical pitfalls to avoid when advising on these complex issues.
NYS CLE Eligibility: 1.0 Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection- Ethics. This course is appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys.
Speaker
F. Paul Greene,
CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, FIP
Chair, Privacy and Data Security
10:00 am to 10:15 am
Networking Break
10:15 am to 11:15 am
Ethics in Practice: Key Updates and Best Practices
Join attorney Peter H. Abdella for an overview of the latest changes to the New York Rules of Professional Conduct, as well as an insightful examination of recent ethics opinions. Peter will also touch upon best practices for attorney/client communications, engagement letters, declination letters and closure letters.
NYS CLE Eligibility: 1.0 Ethics and Professionalism. This course is appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys.
Speaker
Peter H. Abdella
Partner, Litigation
11:15 am to 11:30 am
Networking Break
11:30 am to 12:30 pm
Implicit Bias Awareness and the Impact of Biased-Based Thinking on the Legal Profession
In this thought-provoking session, labor and employment attorney Anna S.M. McCarthy will provide an overview of the topic of implicit bias (from scientific, social, and pragmatic views) and offer considerations for recognizing and addressing our own biases. Anna will explore how implicit bias impacts the legal profession, and what each of us can do to recognize and interrupt bias in the practice of law.
CLE Eligibility: 1.0 Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias. This course is appropriate for experienced attorneys. Newly admitted attorneys are invited to attend but are not eligible to earn diversity credits.
Speaker
Anna S.M. McCarthy
Senior Associate, Labor & Employment
12:30 pm
Closing remarks and Lunch