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Ride The Lightning (RTL) Blog Featured In eDiscovery Today

July 28, 2020

A recent blog post by Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today entitled “New York Bar Association Approved Cybersecurity CLE Requirement Recommendation: Cybersecurity Trends”, featured Sensei’s Sharon Nelson’s Ride the Lightning blog.  

Excerpt:

Sure, we’ve seen a couple of states that have added a technology component to their Continuing Legal Education (CLE) requirements.  Do you know which two?  Regardless, now one state may be going a step beyond – adding a cybersecurity component to their CLE requirements.

According to Sharon Nelson’s terrific blog Ride the Lightning (New York Bar Association Recommends Cybersecurity CLE Requirement), the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) announced on June 13th that it had approved a report from the NYSBA Committee on Technology and the Legal Profession that recommends amending the mandatory continuing legal education rule to require one credit in cybersecurity.

The credit would be included within the “Ethics and Professionalism” category and would not add to the minimum 24-hour biennial rule for experienced attorneys or the 32-hour biennial requirement for new attorneys. This amendment would be effective for four years and then reviewed.

Read Doug’s entire blog post here.