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Cybersecurity Litigation and Enforcement Trends

Data breaches continue to plague businesses and other organizations. Further, those incidents are often followed by litigation and regulatory investigations. Explore the most common claims and other latest developments and gain practical suggestions for how to prepare and lessen risk.

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Handling Internal Investigations: Landmines and Best Practices

Internal investigations can be fraught with legal and ethical challenges for GCs to navigate. Explore the different ways that complaints may arise and how GCs should respond. Understand your role as GC in handling any investigation, the key steps to take (protecting privileges, conducting and protecting internal audits, etc.), and the ethical landmines to avoid.

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Enforcement Trends Across the Healthcare Industry

The federal government and various states continue to investigate and litigate healthcare fraud cases across all sectors of the industry. Hear an overview of the latest trends in enforcement, including insight from a leading government attorney, and learn what the new theories and trends mean for 2025 and beyond.

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eSupplement to the 47th Annual Corporate Counsel Institute

Session 01: Vendor Risk Management - A discussion with industry leaders on cybersecurity issues arising in vendor relationships. The panel discusses third party auditing, cyber incident notification, the recently adopted Reg S-P amendments, and vendor use of AI. Session 02: Current Compliance Issues and Trends - This panel discusses select current issues impacting compliance programs including recent DOJ and SEC guidance and evolving risks. Session 03: RWI Update and Negotiating an RWI Policy for Your Deal - RWI continues to be ubiquitous and ever evolving, with significant changes highlighted by decreasing rates, increased capacity, and new/hungrier underwriting approaches. In addition to an in-depth market trends update, this panel will drill down with the latest cutting edge thinking on how to effectively implement an RWI deal, including negotiating the RWI policy (what to look for and try to get best terms on) and resulting drafting considerations in the purchase agreement. Session 04: Retaliation: Still the Most Attractive Claim for Plaintiffs and Most Complicated for Defendants - Don’t get mad. Get even. Retaliation is in a league all its own, but almost always included with other claims. How is it different, and how does that impact the guidance we give our clients?

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Hooked on CLE: May 2025

THIS MONTH: Navigating the NIL Landscape: Contracts, Cash, and Compliance • ​Deep in the Heart of the Texas Business Courts: What Attorneys Need to Know • Taking Your Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan to the Next Level • Generative AI: Developments and Ethical Implications

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First Friday Ethics: January 2025

Need ethics credit? We’ve got you covered! UT Law CLE’s First Friday Ethics streams live every first Friday of the month, and features some of our best ethics speakers and presentations for a total of 3.00 hrs ethics credit. Fulfill your entire annual ethics requirement in Texas in one day!   This month includes: (0.75 hr | 0.75 hr ethics) Mum's the Word: Maintaining Client Confidentiality and Dealing with Ethical Challenges while Working from Anywhere and Everywhere (Replay) Working remotely and virtual meetings are here to stay. This presentation provides practical suggestions for structuring engagement letters, addressing conflicts of interest, and safeguarding client communications across all mediums. Braxton Wilks, Winstead PC - Austin, TX   (0.75 hr | 0.75 hr ethics) Serving Two Masters (Replay) Discuss conflicts that arise between “clients,” the tripartite relationship, Tilley and its aftermath, the ethical dilemmas lawyers face, and knowing who you really represent. Gayla Corley, MehaffyWeber, P.C. - San Antonio, TX   (1.00 hr | 1.00 hr ethics) Generative AI: Developments and Ethical Implications (Replay) Harnessing the power of AI to drive new ways of doing business and increasing growth is something all organizations are trying to do. The use of generative AI creates risks to organizations including violation of privacy, inaccurate or false representations, and unethical practices, to name a few. Implementing the right controls and ethics training alongside generative AI is necessary – so where do you start? Brooke A. Hopkins, Alvarez & Marsal - Dallas, TX Emily R. Apte, King & Spalding - Austin, TX Robert Denby, Vinson & Elkins LLP - Houston, TX Daniel Meyers, TransPerfect Legal - Dallas, TX Matt Wernz, Federal Trade Commission - Dallas, TX (0.50 hr | 0.50 hr ethics) Sanctions and Privileges (Replay) Sanctions: How to get them or avoid them. Privileges: How to keep them or lose them. Hon. H. DeWayne "Cooter" Hale, Retired U.S. Bankruptcy Judge - Dallas, TX Trip Nix, Holland & Knight LLP - Austin, TX

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Hooked on CLE: January 2025

THIS MONTH: Current Compliance Issues and Trends • Approaches to Statutory Interpretation • Effective and Defensive Documentation from Hiring to Firing • Did You Just Waive Privilege? Protecting Privilege and Attorney Work Product • Medicaid Planning or Medicaid Avoidance?

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Corporate Enforcement by the States

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Current Compliance Issues and Trends

This panel discusses select current issues impacting compliance programs including recent DOJ and SEC guidance and evolving risks.

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Cybersecurity and Privacy Law Enforcement

Examine government enforcement priorities and challenges in cybersecurity across government agencies, including the DOJ, SEC, and the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency.

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Doing Business Abroad: What Companies Should Know to Stay Out of Trouble

The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in DOJ and SEC enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and the Government has added substantial resources to enable more robust enforcement of sanctions and export controls laws, particularly since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. For companies looking to business internationally, the regulatory environment has never been more complicated. This panel discusses enforcement trends involving multinational companies, government expectations of compliance programs, and how best to navigate the risks associated with international operations.

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False Claims Act Developments (2024)

The U.S. Department of Justice describes the False Claims Act as one of its most important tools to fight fraud. Yet, no statute is under greater scrutiny by the Courts, Congress, or Counsel. Our panelists discuss the most recent decisions and the practical effects on their practices.

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Generative AI: Developments and Ethical Implications

Harnessing the power of AI to drive new ways of doing business and increasing growth is something all organizations are trying to do. The use of generative AI creates risks to organizations including violation of privacy, inaccurate or false representations, and unethical practices, to name a few. Implementing the right controls and ethics training alongside generative AI is necessary – so where do you start?

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In-House Counsel View of the Enforcement Landscape

The panel explores current enforcement and regulatory priorities and their implications for corporations and executives.

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Parallel Investigations: Regulatory and Enforcement (DOJ) 

What to consider when caught in the crosshairs of both regulatory and enforcement agency investigations. How to discern the aims and objectives underlying the investigations, balance competing pressures of a criminal or regulatory exposure, and evaluate when (or when not) to disclose information to investigative bodies.

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SEC Hot Topics and Recent Developments (2024)

Session 01: Fireside Chat with Eric Werner - Eric Werner, a long-time SEC leader and Director of the agency’s office in Fort Worth, Texas sits down for a fireside chat with former SEC Enforcement Associate Director and Holland & Knight LLP partner Jessica Magee to discuss important cases, enforcement trends, and a look ahead at what to expect from the SEC going into Fiscal Year 2025. Session 02:  SEC Panel: Hot Topics and Recent Updates - An update on the SEC’s recent enforcement efforts involving fraud investigations and related litigation.

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The Corporate Transparency Act in 2024: The Law, Practical Implications, and Ethical Considerations  

Session 01: Corporate Transparency Act Part 1: The Law - This presentation provides an overview and review of the statutory and regulatory requirements of the Corporate Transparency Act, including new 2024 FinCEN guidance and a discussion of judicial challenges to the CTA (including the Alabama district court case that ruled the CTA unconstitutional). Session 02: Corporate Transparency Act Part 2: Ethical and Practical Considerations - Various ways to address the Corporate Transparency Act in the context of entity formation, continued operation and client communication.

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Requests from on High: Keeping In-House Counsel Out of Hot Water

One of internal counsel’s many functions is to avert problems for their employers. But sometimes in keeping their client away from the fire, they risk being singed. These concerns implicate challenging attorney-client privilege issues, clarity in communicating to employees and management who they represent, educating others about how to maintain confidentiality, engaging the right counsel and consultants for the proper purposes, and knowing when to stay away from direct interaction in depositions, mediations and regulator meetings and interactions, or when to interact directly.

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Ethical Issues Facing In-House Counsel (2022)

In-house counsel are facing increasingly complicated ethical issues arising from internal and government investigations. Hear discussion on ethics issues faced by in-house counsel, including how to navigate through investigations of key officers and executives, balancing when to report to the Board where management is reluctant to act, and recent developments regarding waiver of privilege during reporting out of investigation results.

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Tales from Trial: The Boeing Case is Shot Down

Defense attorneys for the Boeing test pilot, the only individual indicted in connection with the Boeing 737 Max crashes, discuss details of the trial and their successful defense strategy.

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