Speaking Engagements

  • Panelist at the 20th Annual Employment Law Institute - West, sponsored by the PBI, November 17-18, 2016, presenting on Ethics of the Cloud: Technology Competence and Safeguarding Client Confidentiality, covering current issues in lawyers’ legal and ethical obligations to protect the security of data.

  • Speaker at Fox Chapel Area School District, September 2015, presenting to educators and administrators on student data privacy under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) and Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

  • Dialogue Leader, The Sedona Conference®, Working Group 11 (Data Security and Privacy Liability), presenting on data privacy on June 24-25, 2015.

  • Panelist at the 4th Annual eDiscovery Symposium, sponsored by the PBI and ACBA Legal Technology and eDiscovery Committee, April 17, 2015, presenting on Data Breaches – Privacy and Liability, covering current issues in safeguarding personal identifiable information, claims and defenses in private data breach cases, data security class actions, and lawyers’ legal and ethical obligations to protect the security of data.

  • Moderator and Panelist at the 3rd Annual eDiscovery Symposium, sponsored by the PBI and ACBA Legal Technology and eDiscovery Committee, April 25, 2014, presenting on Discovery and Use of Social Media at Trial.

  • Panelist at the 2nd Annual eDiscovery Symposium, sponsored by the PBI and ACBA Legal Technology and eDiscovery Committee, April 26, 2013, presenting on Discovery and Use of Social Media at Trial.

  • Panelist at the eDiscovery Symposium, sponsored by the PBI and ACBA Legal Technology and eDiscovery Committee, April 27, 2012, presenting on eDiscovery in Complex Cases and Injunctive Relief Cases in Common Pleas Court.

  • Speaker at the PBI Solo & Small Firm Conference, July 17, 2012, presenting on the preservation, identification, collection and production of electronically stored information (ESI), the use of ESI at trial, effective protocols and preservation orders, and effective search tools and strategies.