Standing onstage earlier this month, Jill Rhodes, vice president and chief information security officer, Option Care Enterprises, speaks as part of a panel discussion called “Law Firm Cybersecurity Requirements You Never Dreamed of, Emerging Threats, Ethical Obligations to Clients, and Survival Tactics.” (Photo: Jason Doiy/ALM)
Cybersecurity experts had a sobering message for the audience at a recent American Bar Association panel discussion: Preventing malicious cyberattacks is an obligation that falls on lawyers, if they want to protect their clients’ information.
The panel, as part of the American Bar Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco on Aug. 9, discussed the threats of cybersecurity breaches at law firms. The session was moderated by ABA Cybersecurity Legal Task Force co-chair Ruth Hill Bro and included Option Care vice president and chief information security officer Jill Rhodes, Adams and Reese partner Lucian Pera and Silicon Valley Law Group shareholder Stephen Wu.
