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The Philadelphia Bar Association is set to hold its Bench-Bar and annual Conference Law Firm Risk Management Committee CLE from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Oct. 11 at the Borgata in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The topic will be "Privacy and Security Training: Ethical Obligations of Digital Confidentiality and Safekeeping."

Gina F. Rubel, course planner and moderator, co-chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association's law firm risk management committee, and CEO of Furia Rubel Communications Inc., is slated to present at a national conference on behalf of the Philadelphia Bar Association Bench-Bar and annual Conference law firm risk management committee with Mark G. McCreary, chief privacy officer and partner of Fox Rothschild; Susan Duarte, director and senior corporate counsel of Sprint; and Ryan Brogan, special agent with FBI-Newark, New Jersey.

The program, co-sponsored by the law firm risk management and corporate in-house counsel committees, will explore the world of digital privacy and security.

The 1.5 credit CLE will address privacy and security, including ethics obligations of securing employee, client and litigant data; common threats including phishing, ransomware and password management; and security management of internal systems, business and personal electronic devices.

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John C. McMeekin II, chair elect of the American Bar Association tort trial and insurance practice section, is slated to give opening remarks for the inaugural ABA TIPS International Cannabis Conference in Chicago on Thursday.

The conference, "From Regs to Riches: Navigating the Rapidly Emerging Fields of Cannabis and Hemp Law," brings together national and international stakeholders representing the legal and business interests of the grower, transportation, finance, regulatory, consumption method, enforcement and tort sectors.

McMeekin is a partner in Rawle & Henderson's Philadelphia office and a member of the firm's executive committee.

He represents clients as local, national and trial counsel in environmental, toxic and mass torts product and related class actions, products liability, insurance coverage and aviation litigation.

He graduated from the University of Baltimore School of Law.

McMeekin is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland and related U.S. District Courts.

McMeekin is published in professional and law review journals on a variety of topics related to toxic tort and environmental litigation.

He was recently elected chair elect of ABA TIPS. He currently serves as vice chair of ABA TIPS. He will assume the role of the section chair in August 2020.

McMeekin also served the ABA as a council member, section secretary, the section revenue officer, chair of the toxic tort and environmental law committee, chair of the international law committee, and chair of the CLE board.

He is currently co-chairing the corporate counsel initiative task force.

In addition to his service with the ABA, McMeekin chaired the Philadelphia Bar Association environmental and toxic tort law committee and was a member of the Delaware Valley Environmental Inn of Court.

Elected and Appointed

Lee A. Schwartz of the Schwartz Law Firm is set to begin his term as president of the Nicholas A. Cipriani Family Law American Inn of Court.

The Inn is an association of judges, lawyers and law students whose practices concentrate in family law.

At monthly dinner meetings, the members socialize and attend a one-hour CLE as part of their membership.

Schwartz will serve as president for a two-year term beginning in September 2019.

This is his second term as president.

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