Third-Party Vendors and Legal Ethics: Ensuring Data Security Beyond Your Firm’s Walls
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- Faculty:
- Carl Mazzanti | Sy Sommer
- Duration:
- 1 Hour
- License:
- Never Expires.
Description
As law firms increasingly rely on third-party vendors such as cloud providers, IT services, and e-discovery platforms, the risk to client confidentiality grows. Cybercriminals may be targeting these vendors as a backdoor into your firm. Are you prepared?
Presented by LEAP Legal Software and featuring cybersecurity expert Carl Mazzanti, Third-Party Vendors and Legal Ethics: Ensuring Data Security Beyond Your Firm’s Walls explores attorneys’ ethical responsibilities to safeguard client information, even outside their own practice. This 60-minute CLE-eligible session will walk through key rules of professional conduct, the cybersecurity obligations that extend to external partners, and best practices for vendor risk assessment, contract structuring, digital defenses, and incident response planning.
Credits
This program is eligible for 1 hour(s) of CLE credit in 60-minute states, and 1.2 hour(s) of CLE credit in 50-minute states. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules.
LEAP will seek MCLE accreditation in CA, CT, FL, IL, NJ, NY, PA, and RI. Additional states may be requested upon completion of the course.
If you have met the participation requirements for this course, you will receive a personalized CLE affidavit from mcle-leap@americanbar.org. Please check your spam folder as these e-mails may end up there. Once you complete the affidavit, you will be able to download your certificate(s) of attendance and they will also be emailed to you from mcle-leap@americanbar.org.
Faculty
Carl Mazzanti Related Seminars and Products
President
eMazzanti Technologies
Carl Mazzanti, Co-Founder and President of eMazzanti Technologies, CISSP, leads one of the premier IT consulting services for businesses throughout the New York metropolitan area and internationally. The firm manages the Cyber Security coverage for over 400 active organizations ranging from professional services firms to Municipalities and Police Departments to high-end global retailers.
The firm is all about delivering powerful, efficient, Cyber Security tools and outsourced IT services, such as computer network management and troubleshooting, threat hunting, PCI DSS compliance, security awareness implementations, mobile workforce technology, malware remediation, cloud computing, and business continuity and disaster recovery.
eMazzanti Technologies has received many accolades for superior service delivery and stellar growth. The firm has placed on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing privately held companies eleven times including eight consecutive years in a row, has been recognized by Microsoft as a 4x partner of the year and a Watchguard 5x partner of the year. NJBIZ has recognized the firm as the Small Business of the Year and also as a leading NJ Digital Innovator in 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023, and 2024.
Sy Sommer Related Seminars and Products
Director of Product Enablement
LEAP Legal Software
Sy Justin Sommer is the Director of Product Enablement at LEAP Legal Software. Sy is a 2010 graduate of Fordham Law School and is an attorney admitted to practice in the State of New York. Sy began his career in the Family Law Department of Manhattan law firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP. After three years with DHC, Sy took a role with JPMorgan Chase Bank in Brooklyn, NY where he served as an Associate Vice President Senior Counsel in the bank’s Mortgage Banking Litigation group. In 2018, Sy sought to apply his legal education and experience in the legal technology space and joined LEAP with excitement to further the company’s mission of helping attorneys to be more productive with cloud technology. Despite being a born and raised New Yorker, Sy currently resides in Jersey City, New Jersey.