Courses

Introduction to Utility Tokens and Initial Coin Offerings

This seminar provides business, legal, and technical professionals with a practical overview of utility tokens and initial coin offerings (ICOs), covering how they work, how they differ from other digital assets, and how the SEC regulates and enforces securities laws in this space. Panelists also address the risks ICOs present to organizers and buyers, and the role legal counsel plays in navigating this regulatory framework.

Byzantine Generals’ Problem: Crypto and Blockchain: Understanding the Technology and Challenges It Presents

This two-part course breaks down how blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies work—covering cryptography, consensus protocols, digital signatures, mining, and governance—and examines the legal and security considerations relevant to advising clients or organizations operating in the decentralized finance space.

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Smart Contracts

This course covers the fundamentals of blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, and smart contracts, including how they work, their practical applications across industries such as finance, insurance, and healthcare, and the legal and regulatory frameworks that govern them. Presented by attorneys and cybersecurity professionals, it is designed to help legal, business, and security professionals understand how these technologies operate and how to navigate the compliance and advisory considerations they raise.

Blockchain 101: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Law​

This two-part course introduces blockchain technology and cryptocurrency to business and legal professionals, covering how blockchain works, what makes it distinct in terms of privacy and security, and how it connects to financial transactions and real-world applications. Speakers also address the current legal and regulatory landscape, including recent cases, giving attendees a practical foundation for navigating decisions and conversations involving these technologies.

Cryptocurrency and the Blockchain: A Legal Primer

This primer explains how blockchain and cryptocurrency technology works and surveys the legal and regulatory issues it raises—including securities enforcement, money laundering, smart contracts, and asset valuation—drawing on 2022 market events such as the FTX collapse and the SEC's expanded Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit. It equips legal, business, and security professionals to understand the landscape, advise stakeholders, and recognize when to bring in specialized expertise.

Fundamentals of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

This course provides a practical foundation in blockchain technology and cryptocurrency, covering how the blockchain works, its real-world applications, validation methods, permissions, and the relationship between blockchain and different types of tokens. Panelists also walk through the existing regulatory framework—including agency, state-level, and Executive Order 14067 considerations—and review the current state of cryptocurrency litigation following increased SEC enforcement.

Daniel B. Garrie

Fickle Friends: Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

This webinar introduces blockchain and cryptocurrency fundamentals to legal, business, and security professionals, covering how the technology works—including block contents, validation, and permissions—and the relationship between blockchain and different token types. It also reviews the current state of federal and state regulation and examines active cryptocurrency litigation and key cases.

Daniel B. Garrie

On the Money: Central Bank Digital Currency Explained

This seminar introduces central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) to a broad professional audience, covering the basics of central banking, fiat currency, and how central and commercial banks interact, alongside an overview of modern payment systems, stablecoins, and tokenization. Panelists also survey CBDC initiatives underway globally and close with a discussion of the key challenges, open questions, and practical considerations CBDCs present for organizations and their advisors.

Daniel B. Garrie

Crypto and Blockchain: Understanding the Technology and Challenges It Presents (Part 2 of 2)

Part 2 of a two-part seminar on cryptocurrency and blockchain, covering consensus protocols, decentralized systems, digital signatures, transactions, network incentives, mining, and governance. The session closes with key takeaways relevant to legal and finance-sector professionals.

Daniel B. Garrie

Introduction to Utility Tokens and ICOs

A practical overview of how utility tokens and initial coin offerings work, and the legal and regulatory questions they raise for organizations involved in or advising on blockchain-based fundraising.

Josh Lawler