The ABA Cybersecurity Handbook: Cybersecurity, Its Legal Implications, and the Emerging Risk of AI, Fourth Edition

“Cybersecurity remains a top concern in the legal profession. A data breach is a question of when, not if. Lawyers must take steps to protect their own security and privacy, as well as that of their clients. The ABA Cybersecurity Handbook is a vital desk-side resource to help lawyers understand the nature of the threat, protect their practices and their clients’ confidential information and intellectual property, and comply with ever-changing legal rules.”

—Reggie Turner, President, American Bar Association

As AI continues to evolve, so too will its effects on both the substance and practice of law. This updated fourth edition addresses artificial intelligence as it relates to cybersecurity and law. The ABA Cybersecurity Handbook provides a foundation for lawyers, law firms, and the business organizations they represent to understand, monitor, and manage artificial intelligence in this critically important context. In addition, the important and wide array of topics covering cybersecurity issues in the previous edition have been updated and provides a comprehensive look not only at the threat developments of the past few years, but also at the trends that have been established in cybersecurity.

This valuable resource addresses the overarching threat in the cybersecurity landscape, describes how the technologies work, outlines key legal requirements and ethical issues, and highlights special considerations for lawyers and practitioners. Overall best practices are developed and shared throughout the book. The Handbook covers:

• An introduction to artificial intelligence
• Understanding the cyber network and AI
• Cybersecurity risks, cybercrime, and dealing with deepfakes
• What cybersecurity laws govern
• Foreign and international cybersecurity laws
• Risk management in cybersecurity
• Cyber insurance for law firms and legal organizations
• Why public interest attorneys should care about cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity for solo and small firm lawyers, in-house counsel, and large law firms
• And much more!

Jeffrey Allen is a principal in the law firm of Graves & Allen, in Oakland, California. He runs a general practice that, since 1973, has emphasized real estate and business transactions, receiverships and related litigation. Mr. Allen also works extensively as a mediator and as an arbitrator. He actively participates in the work of the Alameda County Bar Association, the Contra Costa County Bar Association, the California Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Mr. Allen has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, St. Mary's College,  the Oakland College of Law, the University of Phoenix and California State University of the East Bay. He frequently presents at continuing education programs for attorneys, brokers, accountants and mediators throughout the United States on technology, trial and mediation technique and California, substantive law topics. He writes columns for several legal magazines and has contributed articles to other legal publications. He served as the editor-in-chief of GPSolo Magazine and the GPSolo eReport.  He remains on those editorial boards and the editorial boards of Experience Magazine and the Voice of Experience (SLD).  He has co-authored or edited eight books and is currently working on a ninth.  In addition to his practice in the United States, Mr. Allen is a member of the rolls of the Law Society as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.

Candace Jones is a commercial lawyer focused on technology transactions, data licensing, and related security issues and procurement and supply chain matters.  She managed legal support for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s procurement and technology functions for more than a decade.  Before that she had been a partner at a mid-size Midwest law firm where she worked with software companies and entrepreneurs. Candace Jones is a former chair of the Business Law Section’s Cyberspace Law Committee, and she currently chairs the Committee’s Cloud & Enterprise Technology Subcommittee.  As a member of the ABA's Cybersecurity Legal Task Force, she coauthored the Vendor Contracting Project: Cybersecurity Checklist (1st ed. 2016).