The OSB Sole and Small Firm Practitioners Section and OWLs Contract Lawyers Present:
Data Storage Security and Professional Responsibility
(Understanding Obligations Imposed by New OSB Ethics Opinion 2011-188)
WHEN: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:00 – 1:00pm
WHERE: OSB Center, 16037 SW Upper Boones Ferry Road, Tigard, Oregon.
COST: Registration for the live program at the Bar Center is FREE. Register for attendance at the Bar Center by sending an e-mail to Janice Hazel (jlhazel@hazellawportland.com). Registrations also taken at the door.
Registration fee for the live Webcast is $10.00. For more information about the webcast (and to Register), click here: http://www.legalspan.com/osbar/webcasts.asp?UGUID=&CategoryID=&ItemID=20120106-102726-111718
BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH. Coffee, tea and assorted drinks and treats provided.
CD/DVD/Streaming formats of this program will be available on the PLF website in the near future.
1 hour ethics credit pending
Presenters:
Helen Hierschbiel, OSB General Counsel
Sheila Blackford, Law Practice Management Advisor, PLF
David Madden, IP Attorney and Co-founder/CTO Cloudfeet Inc
Helen Hierschbiel is Deputy General Counsel of the Oregon State Bar. She provides ethics guidance to the state’s attorneys. Since December 2003, she has screened numerous complaints against lawyers at the Oregon State Bar’s Client Assistance Office. Ms. Herschbiel also administers the bar’s enforcement of restrictions against the unauthorized practice of law. Prior to the Oregon State Bar, she worked in private practice in Oregon and in legal aid on the Navajo and Hopi Reservations in Arizona. She received her J.D. from Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College, in 1991 and her B.A. from Amherst College in 1987. She was admitted to the State Bar of Arizona in 1991 (currently inactive) and the Oregon State Bar in 1997.
Sheila Blackford has been a PLF Law Practice Management Advisor since 2005. She is active with the American Bar Association Law Practice Management Section, where she is Editor-in-Chief of Law Practice magazine and Chair of the Law Practice Magazine Editorial Board (2011-present), a member of the Section Council (2010-present), State and Local Bar Outreach Committee (2008-present), and Ethics Committee (2011-present). She also served as a member of the track advisory board for ABA TECHSHOW (2007, 2008, 2009, 2012). She is a member of the Adjunct Faculty at University of Oregon School of Law, teaching Law Practice Management.
David Madden is a patent attorney whose practice focuses on software and data-processing inventions. He added his J.D. and various bar admissions to his résumé in 2003, after two decades of practical engineering work in semiconductor electronics, programming, computer networks and data security. He is Co-founder and CTO of Cloudfeet, Inc., a provider of secure online document storage designed to meet the particular needs of attorneys, accountants and other professionals. Dave is a frequent speaker on the subject of online data security and data breach liability.
