What Security Nightmares Keep Law Firm Management Up at Night

Bret has more than 25 years of experience in information security, digital forensics, law enforcement, electronic discovery, and counterintelligence. He has worked on some of history’s most notorious retail and state-sponsored data breaches.

As a Special Agent in the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, he was the lead agent on numerous national and international computer intrusion investigations. He has also served as Chief of Research and Development in the Computer Crimes Unit for the U.S. Postal Service Office of the Inspector General, where he conducted investigations and implemented new computer crime analysis and prevention technologies.

In the private sector, Bret was most recently a managing director at Stroz Friedberg, a leading global risk management firm, where he ran its cyber resilience practice. Bret was also the Director of Incident Response for Mandiant, where he responded to and resolved high-risk intrusions for government agencies and Fortune 500 companies, and he served as the Director of Cyber Operations at Athena Innovative Solutions, where he ran network surveillance and intrusion detection counterintelligence operations for the company’s U.S. government clients.

Nicole Reid is a member of Klein Glasser Park & Lowe, P.L.’s professional liability division. Her practice focuses primarily on litigating professional malpractice matters, predominantly defending lawyers and accountants. She also represents lawyers facing bar grievances, fee disputes, disqualification attempts, and defamation claims.

Nicole is an active member of the Dade County Bar Association, currently sitting on the Board of Directors. She also often serves on awards selection and host committees for the DCBA’s signature events, including Legal Luminaries, Over the Rainbow, Bench and Bar, and Women of Distinction. She is also active in the American Bar Association’s Professional Liability Litigation section.

Nicole earned her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law while on a full Dean’s Merit scholarship. While in law school, Nicole was a member of the Business Law Review, where she served as an Articles and Comments Editor. She also won several book awards, and was on the Dean’s List for two semesters.

Prior to joining Klein Glasser Park and Lowe, Nicole worked as an associate at an insurance defense firm for several years. While in law school, she worked as a law clerk at a plaintiff’s personal injury firm, and as a tutor for students preparing to take the LSAT. Nicole also served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Sandy Karlan at the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court, Family Division. Before embarking on a legal career, Nicole worked in the broadcast television field, producing television pilots, infomercials, and news broadcasts.

Ashley L. Hart is a Claims Specialist for CNA's Cyber, Media & Technology Group. Ashley handles both primary and excess first-party cyber and third-party specialty professional liability, security and privacy, and media claims. Her primary responsibilities include evaluating coverage obligations and providing detailed analysis of security and privacy crisis management, technology, media and internet professional liability policies. She works closely with Insureds, risk managers, corporate counsel, and outside counsel in all aspects of data breach incident response and litigation.

Prior to joining to joining CNA, Ashley worked at AIG as a Senior Claims Analyst in their Cyber, Media & Technology Group.

Ashley received her JD at the New York Law School in 2013.

Karen Randall is founder and chair of the Cybersecurity and Data Privacy practice, co-chair of the Professional Liability practice and a senior trial counsel at Connell Foley. She represents clients in complex litigation, and regulatory compliance and defense matters involving cybersecurity, data protection and privacy, social media and professional liability. Karen also has substantial experience with employment law, business litigation and insurance law. She provides counsel and advocacy in federal and state courts for both professionals and businesses across a broad range of industries.

Karen has an extensive background counseling lawyers and law firms, health care entities, financial institutions and retail clients by providing proactive plans to address the myriad cyber risks they each face. She serves as a "breach response coach" across various industries, as well as for cyber insurance carriers, and offers strategic solutions related to post-breach matters including statutory notification requirements, class action litigation, regulatory enforcement actions, forensics and crisis management. Karen also helps companies conduct risk/security assessments, as well as implement data security and information governance policies and procedures, and security awareness training for employees.

In addition, Karen maintains a strong professional liability practice, working closely with law firms, health care and assisted living institutions, architects and engineers, directors and officers and accountants. In her complex litigation work, she handles premises liability matters for major retailers and substance abuse treatment centers as well as amusement parks, concert venues and bowling centers. She defends these entities against diverse claims, including significant sexual molestation and elder abuse matters.

A member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and co-chair of its New Jersey KnowledgeNet Chapter, Karen is integral to numerous efforts to educate lawyers on information security and the ethics of data protection. She received two ABA presidential appointments to serve on the Cybersecurity Legal Task Force and the Standing Committee on Lawyer’s Professional Liability. She is a founder and co-chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Cybersecurity Legal Task Force. Karen also serves as vice chair of the USLAW Network Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Group and co-chaired the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance's (CLM) NYC Cyber Summit. In addition, she is a member of the HIMSS' Security and Privacy committee. Most recently, Karen was selected by Bloomberg BNA to serve as its New Jersey Contributing Editor on cyber and privacy issues for Bloomberg Law: Privacy & Data Security, focusing on the regulatory and compliance landscape of data protection laws in the U.S. and around the world.

A Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, Karen was appointed by Chief Justice Stuart Rabner to serve on the Board on Civil Trial Certification.

Karen's commitment to leadership, frequent speaking and writing underscore her trailblazing impact on the cybersecurity landscape.