Generative AI: Managing Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks in Your Practice

This webinar will provide essential guidance for legal professionals on managing cybersecurity and privacy risks when implementing generative AI tools in law practice. The presentation will span from the broad application of AI tools in law practice, to the more detailed topics of cybersecurity vulnerabilities and AI security incident statistics.

Topics covered include:

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Law Firm ManagementLaw PracticeLegal Tech

Agenda:

• Introduction to Generative AI
  • Overview of generative AI technology, how it differs from traditional AI, and common applications in legal practice, including ChatGPT, Claude, and document generation tools


• Generative AI in Legal Practice: Benefits & Adoption
  • Current adoption rates across firm sizes, key efficiency gains, and the tension between rapid adoption and security governance


• Key Privacy Risks in Generative AI
  • Critical examination of data leakage, attorney-client privilege concerns, training data contamination, shadow AI usage, and regulatory compliance challenges, including GDPR and CCPA violations


• Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities
  • Technical security threats include prompt injection attacks, data poisoning, adversarial examples, AI-enhanced social engineering, API vulnerabilities, and model stealing risks


• AI Security Incident Statistics
  • Discussion of breaches and shadow AI impacts


• ABA Guidance & Regulatory Landscape
  • ABA Formal Opinion 512 requirements, ethical obligations for competent representation, client confidentiality, supervision duties, and an overview of the EU AI Act and state privacy laws


• Risk Management Framework for Law Firms
  • Comprehensive framework covering AI governance policy development, vendor due diligence, data minimization strategies, access controls, security audits, and incident response planning


• Best Practices & Implementation
  • Practical implementation steps, vendor assessment protocols, client consent procedures, prompt engineering guidelines, documentation requirements, staff training programs, and governance policy checklist


• Questions & Answers (as time permits)

Duration of this webinar:60 minutes

When:Premieres in 11 days | October 3, 2025 10:00 AM PT