Cybersecurity and Ethics for Trial Lawyers: Managing E-Discovery Information Security Risks

Ms. Backhouse provides focused guidance and expertise on information governance and electronic discovery matters to Littler's lawyers and their clients. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a founding member of the Board of Directors of the International Data Law Association, and a founding director of the Cardozo Data Law Initiative (CDLI), Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. Denise served as Co-Chair and on the Steering Committee of the American Bar Association Cross-Border Institute. Ms. Backhouse serves on the Working Group Series Leadership Council of The Sedona Conference®, is a former member of the Steering Committee of The Sedona Conference's Working Group on International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure (WG6), and is actively involved in The Sedona Conference’s Working Groups on Electronic Document Retention and Production (WG1) and Data Security and Privacy Liability (WG11). She is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E). Ms. Backhouse is a frequent author, speaker, and lecturer on eDiscovery and data protection issues, including on such topics as developing trends; cross-border discovery, data privacy; and privilege and ethics in eDiscovery.

Ms. Westridge Black is a partner in the firm’s Litigation practice. Her practice focuses on the representation of companies and high-profile individuals in class actions, internal investigations, product liability litigation, global compliance and anticorruption matters, cybersecurity matters, and other complex commercial litigation.