With a significant increase of Federal funds being deployed under the CARES Act, American Rescue Plan, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and Inflation Reduction Act, entities that had not traditionally received Federal grants are applying for them. Because they are new to Federal grants, these entities may wait until after grant award to consider what they need to do to comply with the requirements. This session will discuss the basic requirements for grant recipients and subrecipients and describe some key differences and similarities between grants and FAR-governed contracts. For those still applying for grants, this session will also provide some insights into how your team can consider these requirements during the application process.

What you will be able to do after participating in this session:

• Provide your client an overview of the basic 2 CFR Part 200 (Uniform Grant Guidance) requirements that apply to Federal grant recipients and subrecipients.
• Identify other common sources that you should review to ascertain your clients' obligations.
• Understand common risks for non-compliance with the grant.

A primary part of a legal ops professional's cadence for implementing a tech solution is connecting with their internal stakeholders and clearing any internal hurdles for acceptance. These stakeholders are key to our success in brining in a new tool. This presentation will discuss what those key partners look for from a legal operations professional, featuring internal IT professionals from organizations with mature, tech enabled legal ops functions. We will answer questions such as:

• What does a successful legal tech procurement and implementation process look like to you?
• What do you find you often need from your legal ops professionals in order to streamline the process?
• What do you wish your legal operations team would do or consider that they don't already?

Participants will walk away with a more concise perspective on how to best work together with their enterprise IT teams to successfully gain buy-in and implement legal technology solutions.

Panelists:

• George Hadgraft, AVP of Data and Development at Tilson

• Travis Bricker, Sr. Program Manager at Coinbase

• Dale Roberts, Owner/operator at Centarus

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed and will continue to change how cybersecurity and privacy professionals protect their institutions’ secret, confidential, and private information. Increasingly, institutions defending their data against the most sophisticated, coordinated, and persistent cyberattacks are relying on AI-driven solutions. This panel will discuss how AI will likely influence the reasonableness standard in courts of law that must determine whether a litigant accused of negligent cybersecurity or data privacy management practices had reasonable safeguards in place when its systems were compromised, and its most sensitive data was stolen. How nation-state level cyber-attackers engaging in cyber-espionage use AI to attack and how public and private institutions use AI to defend will also be a topic of discussion. Finally, the panel will address how the rapid rise of remote work or telework has created new cybersecurity and privacy risks that AI is especially well-suited to help institutions mitigate. Join us to hear experienced public and private sector cybersecurity and privacy experts discuss the impact of AI on these evolving challenges.

Due to the nature of its content, this on-demand Webcast is not eligible for CLE/CPD credit.

Legal departments are experiencing an unprecedented period of change. The Covid-19 pandemic led to the rise in remote work, privacy regulations are increasing in their scope and complexity, and enterprise digital transformation is accelerating, all causing vast transformations in the way work gets done. In-house legal departments are now front and center in this new environment, increasingly facing the pressure to drive greater value, align the once independent legal function with the mission of the business, and orient its focus toward improved customer service delivery.

Hear from our panelists as they discuss the top takeaways from a recent survey project titled: Trends in Legal Transformation and Technology Report, which captures insights from a survey of 278 law department leaders and legal operations professionals on how they have engaged in transformation within their departments, the kinds of initiatives they have focused on with respect to their investigations and litigation work, the barriers experienced, and the keys to success.

Generously sponsored by Disco

Companies are signing NDAs all the time, and they frequently have an international component. NDAs are not all the same. Before a company signs one, it should understand the significance "the risks, dangers, and benefits" of the typical provisions in an NDA and thus why a company may want a particular provision to read one way or instead another or to be omitted all together.

Speaker:
Peck Hayne

Gordon Arata, New Orleans

phayne@gamb.com

Peck Hayne focuses his practice on energy-related transactions and regulation. He regularly negotiates, drafts, and advises both landowners and developers on complex purchase and sale agreements, operation agreements, mineral leases, carbon sequestration agreements, hydrogen and hydrocarbon storage agreements, pipeline right-of-way and transportation agreements, production payments agreements, and settlement agreements in complex litigation and disputes. He renders title opinions on complex titles in Louisiana and the Outer Continental Shelf and assists both lenders and borrowers in the financing of onshore and offshore mineral and industrial properties. He helped draft the Louisiana Public Service Commission's pipeline regulations and the Louisiana State Mineral and Energy Board's current lease form.