2023 Beta Board Cyber Readiness Certificate

Daniel B. Garrie

Founder, Law & Forensics; Neutral at JAMS; Faculty at Harvard

Law & Forensics LLC · JAMS · Harvard · Rutgers Law School · Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare

Daniel B. Garrie is the founder and executive managing partner of Law & Forensics LLC, a boutique cybersecurity and forensic engineering firm he co-founded in 2008. He serves as a neutral, arbitrator, and forensic special master at JAMS, focusing on cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, and complex technology disputes, and holds faculty appointments at Harvard and Rutgers Law School. A patented software inventor and prolific author, he is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare and a widely cited authority on computer forensics, eDiscovery, and cyber litigation.

David A. Cass

Senior Partner, Law & Forensics; Adjunct Faculty, Harvard & Rutgers Law

Law & Forensics LLC · Harvard · Rutgers Law School · Global Cyber Institute

David A. Cass is a senior partner at Law & Forensics LLC, where he leads the Cryptocurrency and Digital Banking Practice and is a member of the Cybersecurity and Forensics Practice. His background spans financial services regulation, cryptocurrency, digital assets, blockchain, and cloud, including service as a lead regulator at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and as CISO and Global Partner of IBM's Cloud Security Service unit. He teaches as adjunct faculty at Harvard and Rutgers Law School and is a faculty member at the non-profit Global Cyber Institute.

Michael Kleinman

Special Counsel, Fried Frank LLP

Michael A. Kleinman is litigation special counsel in Fried Frank's New York office and a member of the firm's Privacy & Cybersecurity practice. He represents corporations, boards of directors, financial advisors, investment banks, and private equity firms in complex commercial, securities, derivative, and intellectual property litigation, and advises clients on regulatory compliance, transactional, and litigation matters involving cybersecurity and data privacy risk. He handles cases arising under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and other claims of unauthorized use of licensed data and technology, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US). At Legal Cyber Academy he contributes to the Board Cyber Readiness Certificate.

David Shonka

Partner and General Counsel, Redgrave LLP

David C. Shonka is a partner at Redgrave LLP, where he also serves as the firm's General Counsel and advises on data privacy, cybersecurity, eDiscovery, cross-border data transfers, information governance, and government civil law enforcement investigations. He served as Acting General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission across three separate terms — in 2009, from 2012 to 2013, and from 2016 to 2018 — and spent a decade before that as the agency's Principal Deputy General Counsel, where he oversaw the FTC's Litigation, Legal Counsel, and Opinions & Analysis groups. At Legal Cyber Academy he contributes to the Board Cyber Readiness Certificate.

Paul Tiao

Partner, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Office of the National Cyber Director

Paul M. Tiao is a partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP in Washington, DC, where he works on cybersecurity law and policy. His practice covers investigations, litigation, regulation, policy and legislation on homeland security and privacy issues, including cyber intrusions, data breaches, electronic surveillance and data privacy, and he co-founded the firm's multi-disciplinary Energy Sector Security Team and served as its co-chair. He was earlier Special Counsel and then Senior Counselor for Cybersecurity and Technology to the Director of the FBI, Judiciary Committee counsel to the Assistant Majority Leader in the U.S. Senate, and an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Maryland. He holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School, an M.P.A. from Princeton and a B.S. from MIT. At Legal Cyber Academy he teaches on the U.S. National Cybersecurity Strategy and board cyber readiness.

Jeffrey Caso

Expert Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company

McKinsey & Company

Jeffrey Caso is an expert associate partner in McKinsey & Company's cybersecurity practice, based in the firm's Washington, DC office. He works on market growth strategy, digital risk and technology strategy, and on business-building in cybersecurity with enterprises, investors and leading cybersecurity providers. He co-leads Cyber Threat Snapshot, McKinsey's deep web threat intelligence offering, and has published on cyberwarfare, privacy regulation and the impact of COVID-19 on cyber markets. He holds a B.S.F.S. in science, technology and international affairs from Georgetown University. At Legal Cyber Academy he teaches on the U.S. National Cybersecurity Strategy, cyber litigation trends, and board cyber readiness.

Paul Luehr

Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Paul Luehr is a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP in Washington, D.C., practising in privacy and data security and co-leading the firm's artificial intelligence practice. He advises companies in retail, healthcare, financial services, technology, higher education and manufacturing on cybersecurity, privacy, AI and data breach response. He previously prosecuted cybercrime as a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice, led the Federal Trade Commission's first internet team, and led forensic teams responding to major cyber breaches. He is a CIPP/US, a member of the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium, and an adviser to the American Law Institute on the Restatement Third, Information Privacy Principles. At Legal Cyber Academy he teaches on the National Cybersecurity Strategy and board cyber readiness.

Erez Liebermann

Partner and Co-Chair, Technology Group, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Erez Liebermann is a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York, where he co-chairs the Technology Group and is a member of the firm's Data Strategy & Security Group. He advises on cybersecurity and privacy, incident response and crisis management, white collar and regulatory defence, and state attorneys general matters. He was previously Chief Counsel of Cybersecurity and Privacy at Prudential, and before that Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division and Chief of the Computer Hacking and IP Section at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey. He holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School. At Legal Cyber Academy he teaches on the U.S. National Cybersecurity Strategy and board cyber readiness.