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The Aftermath of Scams and Cybercrime: A Practical Guide to Response and Recovery examines the immediate steps lawyers, businesses, and individuals should take after a scam, cyberattack, or data breach occurs.
The program will focus on recognizing and containing the incident, preserving key information, contacting the appropriate professionals and institutions, addressing immediate legal and ethical concerns, and beginning the recovery process. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for responding calmly, limiting further harm, and making informed decisions when prevention fails.
Presenter Bios
Jeffrey Allen is a principal in the law firm of Graves & Allen, with a practice that since 1973 has emphasized negotiation, structuring and documentation of real estate, loan and other business transactions, receiverships, civil litigation and bankruptcy.
Representative clients include: banking institutions, title companies, institutional and private lenders, borrowers, developers, contractors, real estate brokers, buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, receivers, hotel operators and other general business interests. He has handled numerous major real estate transactions and many large loan transactions.
He has extensive litigation experience and has enjoyed a Martindale-Hubbell AV Rating for many years. He also does extensive work as a neutral, providing services as an arbitrator and as a mediator.
Ashley Hallene is a Land Acquisition Specialist with Demeter Land Development, in Houston, Texas.
Ashley is the co-author, along with attorney Jeffrey Allen, of Technology Tips for Seniors Volume 2.0 (2018), Technology Tips for Lawyers and other Business Professionals (2016), Technology Tips for Seniors (2016), Technology Solutions for Today’s Lawyer (2013) and The iPad for Lawyers (2013). She has published articles on legal technology in GP|SOLO Magazine, GP|SOLO eReport, Experience Magazine, Voice of Experience, and the Attorney at Work and TechnoLawyer Newsletters.
Ashley is an active member of the American Bar Association’s General Practice Solo & Small Firm Division and the Senior Lawyers Division. She is Editor-in-Chief of the GP|Solo eReport. She earned her J. D. from University of Houston Law Center in 2009 and her B.S. from University of Houston in 2004.
The program will focus on recognizing and containing the incident, preserving key information, contacting the appropriate professionals and institutions, addressing immediate legal and ethical concerns, and beginning the recovery process. Attendees will leave with a practical framework for responding calmly, limiting further harm, and making informed decisions when prevention fails.
Presenter Bios
Jeffrey Allen is a principal in the law firm of Graves & Allen, with a practice that since 1973 has emphasized negotiation, structuring and documentation of real estate, loan and other business transactions, receiverships, civil litigation and bankruptcy.
Representative clients include: banking institutions, title companies, institutional and private lenders, borrowers, developers, contractors, real estate brokers, buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, receivers, hotel operators and other general business interests. He has handled numerous major real estate transactions and many large loan transactions.
He has extensive litigation experience and has enjoyed a Martindale-Hubbell AV Rating for many years. He also does extensive work as a neutral, providing services as an arbitrator and as a mediator.
Ashley Hallene is a Land Acquisition Specialist with Demeter Land Development, in Houston, Texas.
Ashley is the co-author, along with attorney Jeffrey Allen, of Technology Tips for Seniors Volume 2.0 (2018), Technology Tips for Lawyers and other Business Professionals (2016), Technology Tips for Seniors (2016), Technology Solutions for Today’s Lawyer (2013) and The iPad for Lawyers (2013). She has published articles on legal technology in GP|SOLO Magazine, GP|SOLO eReport, Experience Magazine, Voice of Experience, and the Attorney at Work and TechnoLawyer Newsletters.
Ashley is an active member of the American Bar Association’s General Practice Solo & Small Firm Division and the Senior Lawyers Division. She is Editor-in-Chief of the GP|Solo eReport. She earned her J. D. from University of Houston Law Center in 2009 and her B.S. from University of Houston in 2004.
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