Insights

The Los Angeles Business Journal has named Crowell & Moring partner Valerie M. Goo to its list of Top 100 Lawyers 2024. 

The Daily Journal selected Crowell & Moring’s successful defense of WhiteWater West Industries, Ltd., in Pacific Surf Designs Inc. v. Whitewater West Industries Ltd., as one of its “Top Verdicts” for 2023. The annual list recognizes the largest and most significant verdicts in California by dollar, impact, defense victories, and appellate reversals. 

Leadership Council on Legal Diversity has selected Sima Namiri-Kalantari as a member of its 2024 class of Fellows. In addition, associates Roy Abernathy and Ashleigh Kaspari have been named to the LCLD 2024 class of Pathfinders.

Crowell & Moring Partner Jennie VonCannon, a member of the firm's Privacy & Cybersecurity and White Collar and Regulatory Enforcement Groups, will be speaking at the ACC Foundation's 2024 Cybersecurity Summit, taking place in Los Angeles. Her panel, "GenAI & Cybersecurity-Integrating Cyber Risk into your AI Governance Strategy," will take place at 2:00 PM PST.

This session will include a dynamic panel that covers the importance of Generative AI (GenAI). The panelists will explain how to best leverage GenAI across your practice while mitigating the associated risks. They will provide practical tips for in-house counsel and other teams to improve efficiency and streamline operations through the use of technology. They will also share proven templates and other guidance for establishing effective AI policies.

Cybersecurity touches every aspect of consumer and corporate culture, and vulnerabilities present grave financial, legal, and reputational risks. Preventing, preparing for, and responding to data breaches in real time are chief concerns in today’s workforce. This conference programming will keep you apprised of the latest threats and innovations through educational sessions with leading subject matter experts. These learning opportunities will complement your broad understanding of cybersecurity strategies and principles, enabling you to become a more well-rounded, focused, and effective practitioner. This conference is geared towards law firms, corporations, and government officials.

Join other privacy and cybersecurity legal professionals in Los Angeles to learn and connect. This two-day conference sponsored by the California Lawyers Association Privacy Section is packed with privacy content with input directly from regulators and industry leaders.

The “Top Issues in Cybersecurity” panel will take place on February 9, 2024, at 11:45 a.m. Cybersecurity lawyers never sleep, especially these days. Security incidents continue to occur at a breakneck pace, and state and federal governments are responding with a tsunami of new cybersecurity regulations. Jennie VonCannon and fellow panelists from Motorola Solutions, eBay, and DreamHost will discuss the biggest issues in cybersecurity in the year ahead.

Aurifer Middle East and Global Legal Customs Association (GLCA) to host the GLCA Conference 2024. The conference, which is part of the programme of the GLCA Annual Meeting held in Dubai (UAE), organised under the sponsorship of Aurifer Middle East this year, will feature a hybrid (in-person and online) scientific session on February 8, 2024, 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. GST.

The conference will consist of six panels covering the major developments and latest trends in the global customs and international trade landscape. The broad range of topics covered during the scientific session include EU customs reform, customs compliance in UAE free zones, international trade sanctions, and the impact of bans on UAE banks for trade with Russia. Conference attendants will also have the opportunity to hear about business experiences in relation to the use of new technologies for customs clearance, track and trace, and compliance.

Crowell and Moring Partner David Stepp will speak on the panel “International Trade Sanctions: Russian, American and European perspectives.”

Please join Global Counsel Leaders, the leading industry forum for Chief Legal Officers and senior General Counsel (GC), in conjuction with sponsor Factor, for a virtual roundtable on cybersecurity.

Moderated by E. Leigh Dance, a panel of subject matter experts will discuss new challenges in cybersecurity, including data governance and generative AI.

During the roundtable, we'll discuss:

• Addressing new cybersecurity risks presented by Generative AI
• How legal teams are acting on the SEC cybersecurity disclosure rule
• Complying with changing regulations on cross-border data flow
• How the GC’s role is changing in data protection and privacy

Watch the recording of this discussion here.

International trade and foreign investment laws are changing quickly, particularly as a result of the heated political environment in Washington, D.C., and rising tensions between the U.S. and China. Even companies that are traditionally out of the flood plain need to heed the potential for a 100-year flood!

This program will provide an understanding of some of the national security and trade restrictions aimed at China that the United States has taken, and China’s responses, including China’s updated Counterespionage Law, which went into effect on July 1, 2023, with a particular focus on how you and your company should approach risk mitigation.