AI, Ethics & Cybersecurity: What Every Lawyer Needs to Know About the Agentic AI Revolution

Neil Daswani
Neil Daswani
Firebolt Ventures

Dr. Neil Daswani is Co-Director of the Stanford Advanced Cybersecurity Program, and is President of Daswani Enterprises, his security consulting and training firm. He has served in a variety of research, development, teaching, and executive management roles at QuantumScape, Symantec, LifeLock, Twitter/X, Dasient, Google, Stanford University, NTT DoCoMo USA Labs, Yodlee, and Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore).

Kimberly W. Klayman
Kimberly W. Klayman
Ballard Spahr LLP

Kimberly W. Klayman is the Practice Leader of the Emerging Companies and Venture Capital Group. Kimberly has broad experience representing privately held emerging companies, as well as venture capital, private equity funds, family offices and corporate venture groups that invest in high growth companies.

Live Video-Broadcast: May 23, 2025

2 hour CLE

Tuition: $195.00
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Program Summary

In this CLE session, Neil Daswani and Kimberly Klayman will explore how advances in agentic AI are reshaping the legal profession and the cybersecurity landscape. Drawing from Neil’s expertise as a cybersecurity leader and educator, and Kimberly’s deep experience advising tech startups and venture clients, the presentation will address how lawyers can harness AI tools while mitigating associated risks.

Through real-world examples and practical insights, they will highlight key legal, ethical, and technical challenges arising from the growing use of AI in legal workflows, client communications, and organizational governance.

This course is co-sponsored with myLawCLE.

Key topics to be discussed:

  • Understanding agentic AI and its legal implications
  • Cybersecurity and AI governance risks
  • Collaborative intelligence and legal practice transformation
  • Regulatory trends and policy development

Date / Time: May 23, 2025

  • 1:00 pm – 3:10 pm Eastern
  • 12:00 pm – 2:10 pm Central
  • 11:00 am – 1:10 pm Mountain
  • 10:00 am – 12:10 pm Pacific

Closed-captioning available

Speakers

Neil Daswani | Firebolt Ventures

Dr. Neil Daswani is Co-Director of the Stanford Advanced Cybersecurity Program, and is President of Daswani Enterprises, his security consulting and training firm. He has served in a variety of research, development, teaching, and executive management roles at QuantumScape, Symantec, LifeLock, Twitter/X, Dasient, Google, Stanford University, NTT DoCoMo USA Labs, Yodlee, and Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore). At Symantec, he was Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Consumer Business Unit, and at LifeLock and QuantumScape he was the company-wide CISO.

Neil has served as an Executive-In-Residence at Trinity Ventures (funders of Auth0, New Relic, Aruba, Starbucks, and Bulletproof). He is an investor in and advisor to several cybersecurity startup companies and venture capital funds, including Benhamou Global Ventures, Firebolt, Gravity Ranch Ventures, Security Leadership Capital, and Swift VC. Neil is also co-author of Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone (Apress ISBN 978-1484266540) and Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know (Apress ISBN 978-1590597842).

Neil’s DNA is deeply rooted in security research and development, he has dozens of technical articles published in top academic and industry conferences (ACM, IEEE, USENIX, RSA, BlackHat, and OWASP), and he has been granted over a dozen US patents. He frequently gives talks at industry and academic conferences and has been quoted by publications such as The New York Times, USA Today, and CSO Magazine.

He earned PhD and MS degrees in computer science at Stanford University, and he holds a BS in computer science with honors with distinction from Columbia University.

 

Speaker_Kimberly W. Klayman_FedBarKimberly W. Klayman | Ballard Spahr LLP

Kimberly W. Klayman is the Practice Leader of the Emerging Companies and Venture Capital Group. Kimberly has broad experience representing privately held emerging companies, as well as venture capital, private equity funds, family offices and corporate venture groups that invest in high growth companies.

She works with companies through the entire corporate life cycle, including pre-formation and general corporate counseling, venture capital financing, and mergers and acquisitions. Kimberly also counsels’ investors and platform companies in strategic acquisitions of high growth companies.

Professional Activities: Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Entrepreneurship Clinic and Master of Law Program. Recognition & Accomplishments: The Best Lawyers in America, “Ones to Watch,” Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, (Philadelphia) 2023-2025 and The Legal Intelligencer, “Lawyers on the Fast Track,” 2023.

Agenda

I. Understanding agentic AI and its legal implications | 1:00pm – 1:30pm

II. Cybersecurity and AI governance risks | 1:30pm – 2:00pm

Break | 2:00pm – 2:10pm

III. Collaborative intelligence and legal practice transformation | 2:10pm – 2:40pm

IV. Regulatory trends and policy development | 2:40pm – 3:10pm

Credits

Alaska

Approved for CLE Credits
2 General

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Alabama

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2 General

Arkansas

Approved for CLE Credits
2 General

Arizona

Approved for CLE Credits
2 General

California

Approved for CLE Credits
2 General

Colorado

Pending CLE Approval
2 General

Connecticut

Approved for CLE Credits
2 General

District of Columbia

No MCLE Required
2 CLE Hour(s)

Delaware

Pending CLE Approval
2 General

Florida

Approved via Attorney Submission
2.5 General Hours

Receive CLE credit in Florida via attorney submission.
Georgia

Pending CLE Approval
2 General

Hawaii

Approved for CLE Credits
2.4 General

Iowa

Pending CLE Approval
2 General

Idaho

Pending CLE Approval
2 General

Illinois

Pending CLE Approval
2 General

Indiana

Pending CLE Approval
2 General

Kansas

Pending CLE Approval
2 Substantive

Kentucky

Pending CLE Approval
2 General

Louisiana

Pending CLE Approval
2 General

Massachusetts

No MCLE Required
2 CLE Hour(s)

Maryland

No MCLE Required
2 CLE Hour(s)

Maine

Pending CLE Approval
2 General

Michigan

No MCLE Required
2 CLE Hour(s)

Minnesota

Pending CLE Approval
2 General

Missouri

Approved for CLE Credits
2.4 General

Mississippi

Pending CLE Approval
2 General

Montana

Pending CLE Approval
2 General

North Carolina

Pending CLE Approval
2 General

North Dakota

Approved for CLE Credits
2 General

Our programs are CLE-eligible through North Dakota’s recognition of multi-jurisdictional reciprocity. Section 1, Policy 1.14
Nebraska

Pending CLE Approval
2 General

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New Hampshire

Approved for CLE Credits
120 General minutes

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New Jersey

Approved for CLE Credits
2.4 General

Our programs are CLE-eligible through New Jersey’s recognition of multi-jurisdictional reciprocity, except for the courses required under BCLE Reg. 201:2
New Mexico

Approved for CLE Credits
2 General

Nevada

Pending CLE Approval
2 General

New York

Approved for CLE Credits
2.4 General

Our programs are CLE-eligible through New York’s Approved Jurisdiction Group “B”.
Ohio

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2 General

Oklahoma

Pending CLE Approval
2.5 General

Oregon

Pending CLE Approval
2 General

Pennsylvania

Approved for CLE Credits
2 General

Rhode Island

Pending CLE Approval
2.5 General

South Carolina

Pending CLE Approval
2 General

South Dakota

No MCLE Required
2 CLE Hour(s)

Tennessee

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2 General

Texas

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2 General

Utah

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2 General

Virginia

Not Eligible
2 General Hours

Vermont

Approved for CLE Credits
2 General

Washington

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2 Law & Legal Hours

Receive CLE credit in Washington via attorney submission.
Wisconsin

Pending CLE Approval
2.4 General

West Virginia

Pending CLE Approval
2.4 General

Wyoming

Pending CLE Approval
2 General

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