Bad Tech Habits Every Lawyer Should Stop Doing: Preventing and mitigating cyber hacks, fraud schemes and ransomware

Danielle A. Ocampo | Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP

Danielle A. Ocampo is an Associate with the Data Security, Privacy & Technology practice group in Freeman Mathis & Gary’s Orange County office. Danielle is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) with the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Danielle advises and counsels clients for legal and operational guidance on privacy compliance. Danielle serves as incident response counsel to businesses nationwide. Danielle’s practice includes data privacy litigation from employee and consumer data breach and pixel tracking class actions and individual CIPA claims. Danielle is an Executive Committee member of the Bar Association of San Francisco’s (BASF) Cybersecurity and Privacy Law Section.

Throughout law school at Loyola Marymount University, Danielle interned in-house at Indeed.com and Intuitive Surgical, Inc. focusing on Data Privacy and Cybersecurity matters. Danielle’s first experience in-house was at Edwards Lifesciences as a Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association Diversity Fellow. Prior to law school, Danielle was a Business and Administrative Professional at Bayer’s agricultural tech arm The Climate Corporation. Before venturing into the Technology sector, Danielle was a Business Development Coordinator at the multinational law firm Paul Hastings LLP in the Bay Area where she advanced the business initiatives of the Employment Law practice and co-chaired the Asian affinity network for the Palo Alto office. Danielle joined Paul Hastings in 2017 as a Business Development Intern focused on client industry growth at the firm’s Los Angeles office. During this time, Danielle was also a full-time graduate student at the University of Southern California School of Public Policy where she earned her Master of Public Administration degree. Danielle graduated from the University of California Davis cum laude in 2016 with a B.A. double majoring in Political Science and International Relations with a minor in Managerial Economics.

Danielle is a Co-Director of Membership for the Board of the Filipino-American Bar Association of Northern California (FBANC). Since 2020, Danielle has served her community volunteering as a program chair for the National Federation of Filipino-American Associations’ youth leadership development program, Empowering Pilipino Youth through Collaboration.

Mark Bassingthwaighte | ALPS Insurance Agency

Since 1998, Mark Bassingthwaighte, Esq., has been a Risk Manager with ALPS, the nation’s largest direct writer of lawyers’ malpractice insurance. In his tenure with the company, Mr. Bassingthwaighte has conducted over 1200 law firm risk management assessment visits; presented over 650 continuing legal education seminars throughout the United States; and written extensively on risk management, ethics, and cybersecurity. Mr. Bassingthwaighte is a member of the State Bar of Montana as well as the American Bar Association where he currently sits on the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility’s Conference Planning Committee. He received his J.D. from Drake University Law School.

Session I – Quarterbacking Incident Response to Manage Cyber Risk & Litigation | 1:00pm – 2:00pm

• Common cyber-related litigation trends and how to minimize exposure
• Incident intake and insurance coverage
• Preventing and responding to social engineering attacks and possible wire fraud
• Quarterbacking restoration and recovery and forensics
• Post-Incident: Data breach notifications, regulatory reporting, forensics report?
• Practical tips for data handling and safeguarding network
• Implementing controls aligned with legal and professional responsibilities for risk management
• Incident response counsel’s role in third-party legal defense

Break | 2:00pm – 2:10pm

Session II – 10 Sloppy Tech Habits Your Firm Needs to Break| 2:10pm – 3:10pm

• An awareness of the numerous ways office computer networks can be breached
• An explanation as to why a firm’s efforts to prevent a breach can’t be left to IT support alone
• Knowledge of how wire fraud occurs to include practical tips on how to identify and avoid these scams

Break | 3:10pm – 3:20pm

Session III – Cybersecurity: How to Protect Yourself and Keep the Hackers at Bay| 3:20pm – 4:20pm

• Identification of the basic steps one must take to try and prevent a network breach coupled with an understanding of an attorney’s ethical obligations to take such steps
• An understanding of backup best practices in light of ransomware threats