Counsel's Code: 10 Cybersecurity Practices to Adopt

Our Mission is to bridge the knowledge gap between law and technology professionals by educating attorneys on technology to attorneys and technology executives on its laws and regulations. Legal Cyber Academy provides a comprehensive tool and evolving knowledge base through exclusive insights from world class cybersecurity, privacy, web 3.0, forensic, and e-discovery legal and technical practitioners. Earn CLE, CPE, and CE credits. (Refunds are available if you do not receive credit) At Legal Cyber Academy We recognize that technology, the cybersecurity threats it faces, and relevant laws and regulation are rapidly evolving, presenting unique challenges and opportunities. Our platform is dedicated to empowering legal professionals with the skills and understanding necessary to navigate the complex landscape of technology in their field, enabling them to effectively advise clients, draft contracts, and navigate legal implications in a technology-driven world. Simultaneously, we strive to equip technology professionals with the legal knowledge they need to make informed decisions, ensure compliance with regulations, and limit liability. By fostering a deep understanding of legal frameworks, we hope to support technology professionals in creating innovative, compliant, and socially conscious technological advancements. Join us in our mission to reshape the way legal professionals and technology experts understand and interact with each other in a rapidly changing technical and legal landscape. Together, they will mitigate risk better, ensure compliance, and actively shape the future of technology and its accompanying laws.

Danie Garrie, Esq., is the Co-Founder of Law & Forensics LLC, where he heads the Computer Forensics and digital discovery Cybersecurity teams. Daniel has been a dominant voice in the computer forensics and cybersecurity space for the past 20 years, as an attorney and technologist. He is an adjunct professor at Harvard for Computer Forensics, and prior to Law & Forensics, he successfully built and sold several technology start-up companies. Since co-founding Law & Forensics LLC in 2008, Daniel has built it into one of the leading boutique firms specializing in cybersecurity and forensic engineering. He is a mediator, arbitrator, and e-discovery special master for JAMS and is a partner and head of Cybersecurity practice at Zeichner, Ellman & Krause LLP. Daniel earned both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in computer science from Brandeis University, as well as a J.D. from Rutgers Law School. Daniel has led cyber and forensic teams in some of the most visible and sensitive incidents in the United States. He and his team have worked globally for two of the top five banks and dozens of the largest private and public companies in the world. In addition, Daniel has been awarded several patents for advanced cybersecurity and forensic platforms he built with his team, including TableTop.AI, CustodyTrack.IO, and Forensic Scan. Daniel is also well-published in the cybersecurity space and has authored more than 200 articles and books. His work is cited by Black’s Law Dictionary 10th Ed. defining the terms 'software', 'internet', and 'algorithm'. Lastly, he has been recognized by several United States Supreme Court Justices for his legal scholarship and is a trusted source and thought leader for cybersecurity articles and opinions, cited over 500 times to date.

My journey continues after serving the community as a Circuit Court Judge for almost 16 years. I have now transitioned to serving the community as a full time facilitator in helping to navigate people stuck in the MAZE of litigation by resolving disputes through conflict resolution.

With over 26 years of experience in IT and cybersecurity, Larry Pfeifer is recognized as a leader in helping people and organizations to solve their IT and security-related issues. As a proud New Jersey native, Larry joined the Navy in 1993 and started a career in IT. After serving his country, he held positions at Widener University, Nortel, Philadelphia Stock Exchange, BlueCoat Systems, and CrowdStrike. Working as an end-user, manager, engineer, sales engineer, account manager, and sales manager has given Larry a 360-degree view of all sides of IT. Larry started Consortium with one goal—helping people. His altruistic views came from organizing a feeding the homeless program in Camden, NJ. From there, he founded Consortium Networks as an avenue to continue to help its members, partners and others. Larry resides in southern New Jersey and is active in his community, charities and family.

In a career of over 15 years in executive-level legal and policy counsel roles at industry leaders in tech and telecom, Chuck Cosson has developed significant expertise at both public policy and compliance counseling. Chuck has implemented compliance programs, policies and standards, provided product counsel and transactional support. He has also provided expert public policy counsel, analyzing policy proposals, meeting with policymakers, and supporting strategy, communications, and public affairs teams. Chuck's multi-faceted expertise consists of the identifying and analyzing emerging policy issues, including for impacts on corporate strategy; developing strategic recommendations, policies and processes, and compliance solutions; cultivating robust partnerships with corporate, government, and NGO stakeholders; championing internal cultural transformation efforts and corporate social responsibility initiatives; and creating and presenting external thought leadership communications. By drawing on these skills and expertise, Chuck has driven the illustrative impacts such as leading development of a Responsible AI program at TMobile; drafting policy, standards, and adapted privacy impact assessment and ‘privacy by design’ processes; visualizing and implementing multiple process improvements for incident response, privacy and cybersecurity compliance, and legal review of supplier and partner contracts, including new templates; being a Founding Board Member of the Global Network Initiative at Microsoft, a leading multi-stakeholder organization championing human rights principles for the technology sector. Chuck also managed the annual US-China Internet Industry Forum at Microsoft, an event organized to convene US and Chinese leaders for candid dialogue on privacy, online safety, and other technology issues; and providing policy counsel on identity, authentication and age verification. Presented solutions to regulators, including US state AGs and online safety advocates.

George Pierce is Special Counsel to ZEK’s Litigation and Cyber Security Practices. He has substantial experience and expertise in providing legal services related to complex litigation, corporate governance, labor and employment, bankruptcy, international trade, regulatory compliance and cyber security matters. Mr. Pierce retired from Toyota Tsusho America, Inc. in December 2022 where he was employed for 29 years and served as a Director, Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, and Corporate Secretary. He established the company’s Legal Department as its first General Counsel, and continuously served on Toyota Tsusho America’s board of directors for 22 years when he became the company’s first Director Emeritus and Special Legal Counsel. He also served on the boards of directors of several subsidiary companies. Before joining Toyota Tsusho America, Mr. Pierce was associated with Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander and Ferdon for 12 years where he had extensive experience representing Japanese corporations, Japanese owned subsidiary corporations and domestically owned corporations regarding various complex litigation, international trade, regulatory compliance, environmental insurance coverage, white collar defense, labor and employment, and internal investigations. Prior to Mudge Rose, Mr. Pierce was an intern at Miyake and Kitamura in Tokyo, Japan, which together with Mudge Rose, was counsel to a Japanese corporation that was a defendant in a large complex multinational litigation matter filed in New York State Court. Mr. Pierce’s experience with Japanese corporations and Japanese owned subsidiary corporations has largely focused on avoiding and resolving legal issues in the United States by bridging the understanding and expectations gap arising from significant differences between the law and legal systems in Japan and in the United States; For example, as to civil and criminal procedure and the evidence preservation and discovery process in the United States, shareholder liability, jurisdiction over Japanese parent companies in the United States, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, labor and employment, cyber and privacy, and development of policies and procedures that mitigate risk of liability. Focusing on Japanese parent and subsidiary corporations in the United States, Mr. Pierce has spoken on labor and employment issues at meetings of the American Bar Association, the International Section of the New York State Bar Association, the International Bar Association and the Asian American Bar Association, as well as the Practicing Law Institute, the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of New York, and the Japan Society. He has also spoken at various webinars and CLE programs sponsored by Thomson Reuters, West LegalEd Center regarding cyber security matters, and at the Journal of Law and Cyber Warfare annual symposium. He has also co-taught sessions of the Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago-Kent College of Law Cyber Security Certificate Program. Mr. Pierce holds a master’s degree in Sociology and a bachelor’s degree with majors in Psychology and in Japanese Language and Literature. Mr. Pierce is an accomplished musician, singer and songwriter who also holds a second-degree black belt in Kodokan Judo, an advanced class amateur radio license and has served in the United States Air Force.