Privacy law is booming in the United States. We are bringing together a team of privacy and cybersecurity law professionals to provide an overview of the area focusing on the needs of lawyers as well as important new developments and changes in the law. Topics will include:
- Privacy obligations as it applies to legal practice
- New developments in the U.S. and Europe
- Key compliance elements for data protection
- Standard cybersecurity elements you must have in place
- Privacy policy (notice) teardown
Chair:
Robert F. Copple, Copple & Associates PC
Faculty:
Heather Buchta, Quarles & Brady LLP
Laura Rogal, Outlier
K Royal, JD, PhD.
Robert F Copple, Copple & Associates PC
, JD, PhD, Copple & Associates PC, is an arbitrator, mediator, investigator, and litigation strategy consultant. He helps to resolve disputes involving technology and science issues, including intellectual property, biotechnology, information technology, cybersecurity, telecommunications, high tech manufacturing, the environment, and health care. He was on the ground floor applying alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to the rapidly growing cannabis industry. Bob frequently lectures on law and technology issues both in law schools and professional organizations. He has authored more than 40 books and articles including the ABA Treatise, "Biotechnology and the Law" (Editor-in-Chief and coauthor). Bob is recognized as an organization leader, both statewide and nationally, serving as the chair of the board for the Arizona State University (ASU) Center for Law, Science, and Innovation, chair of the ADR Section of the Arizona State Bar Association, and member of the Intellectual Property Section Executive Council, among other positions. Bob worked as a litigator and regulatory negotiator for large law firms in Denver and Phoenix and was Senior Litigation Counsel for Motorola. In addition, he was a judicial law clerk for a Federal District judge and for a state supreme court chief justice. He received his BA, MA, and JD from the University of Nebraska, and his PhD from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Bob was the executive editor of the Nebraska Law Review and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US).
Laura Rogal, Assistant General Counsel, Outlier
Laura Rogal offers her clients a fresh perspective on not only the law, but also enhancing attorney-client relationship through straightforward communications and effective use of technology.Providing assistance to clients, whether a business or an individual, is something Laura prides herself in. She ensures that she gives her clients solutions that fit their needs and interests, not just lawyerly ideas that will cost the client money without providing them with the value they are looking for. Emerging technology is something Laura finds fascinating. Utilizing social media, she makes sure that she is up-to-date on the latest products and services that she can offer her clients. The Internet is where the vast majority of business takes place, either through email, the cloud, or e-commerce, and she strives to make sure that her clients are aware of their potential risks and rewards of using those platforms.
K Royal, N/A
, PhD, is an attorney and global compliance professional with 25 years of experience in the legal and health-related fields. K has a particular interest in technology along with its challenges and opportunities. She is certified through the IAPP as a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP), Privacy Management (CIPM), and US and EU Privacy Law (CIPP/US, CIPP/E) and through ISACA as a data privacy solutions engineer (CDPSE). she obtained her law degree at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University and her PhD in public affairs from the University of Texas at Dallas. She is currently in-house at Outschool, teaches privacy / data protection to law students, and serves on the board of several non-profit organizations.
Heather Lynn Buchta, Partner, Quarles & Brady LLP
As Phoenix Office Chair for the Intellectual Property Group and member of the Data Privacy & Security industry team at Quarles, Heather advises on information technology and data privacy with an additional focus on trademark and copyright matters. With clients in the hospitality, health care, manufacturing, consumer services and other industries, her experience focuses on software agreements (SaaS, downloadable and custom development), IT outsourcing, privacy programs and compliance, trademark prosecution and licensing, copyright prosecution and licensing, electronic contracting, and technology development deals. With more than 20 years working in the IT space, Heather has a deep knowledge of the industry, its standards and practices, and a clear sense of risks that are emerging as well as those no longer relevant.