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Gina Mitchell, a member of the City Bar’s Criminal Advocacy Committee, interviews Professor Steve Zeidman, a criminal defense attorney and the Director of the Criminal Defense Clinic at CUNY School of Law; Attorney Michelle Lewin, the Executive Director of the Parole Preparation Project in New York; and Jose Saldana, director of the Release Aging People in Prison Campaign, about parole law and reform in New York State.

Host Tim Peterson and Jeremy Merkel, both members of the City Bar’s Information Technology & Cyber Law Committee, discuss the legal implications of the recent upsurge in ransomware attacks, particularly against healthcare providers. 

1:38 - Intro to Ransomware

3:06 – Scenario: Paying the Ransom

6:43 - Alternate Scenario: Contacting the FBI

8:45 - Iranian SamSam Attacks

11:02  - Significance of DOJ indictments

11:53 – Factors in Target Selection

12:33 – Vulnerability of Healthcare Providers

13:50  – Role of Bitcoin in Ransomware Attacks

19:30  - Cryptopayments to Terrorists, Acts of War, and Cyberinsurance

23:56 - Cyberforensics and International Legislative Solutions

25:27 – The Allscripts Attack and Other Attacks on Healthcare Providers 

 29:06 - Effects Under GDPR, HIPPA, and Other Data Privacy Regulations

30:33 - Best Practices for Healthcare Providers

33:49 - Representing Municipal Ransomware Victims

35:29 – Wrap-up 

The panel covered key regulatory and legislative changes to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) under the Trump administration including: new standards and rules, removal of species from protection, reduction of funding for certain initiatives, trophy hunting and import, and ivory trade and import of ivory and rhino horn. They also discussed recent key federal litigation interpreting Endangered Species Act, and touched upon currently proposed legislative, regulatory and statutory changes to the ESA. Speakers: Dr. Susan Lieberman, Vice-President, International Policy, Wildlife Conservation Society  Joseph Nelson, Partner, Van Ness Feldman Asher Smith, Litigation Counsel, PETA Foundation Danny Waltz, Staff Attorney, Animal Legal Defense Fund Moderators:  Professor Randall Abate, Rechnitz Family Endowed Chair in Marine and Environmental Law and Policy, Monmouth University and Mikki Golar Sponsoring Committee: Animal Law Committee, Christopher Wlach, Chair       

Cosponsoring Committee:

Environmental Law Committee, Kevin Healy and Amy Turner, Co-Chairs

New York City Bar President Roger Juan Maldonado and New York State Bar President Michael Miller speak with James Ostaszewski, who drafted the City Bar’s report in support of exempting Puerto Rico from the Jones Act, a law that restricts shipping and that independent studies say costs the recovering island hundreds of millions of dollars per year.

Host Tim Peterson of the Information Technology and Cyberlaw Committee interviews Dennis Dayman, the Chief Privacy and Security Officer of Return Path, on the evolution of privacy law and technology and what it means for the future of consumer privacy and electronic marketing efforts worldwide. 

Description: On February 28, 2019, a panel discussed issues around companion animals and transportation, including the use of service animals on public transportation, pets in ridesharing, and recent incidents in which pets have died during air travel. Moderators: Marissa Hight, Akerman LLP Bari Wolf, Vernon & Ginsburg LLP Speakers: Erin Abrams, General Counsel, Via Kleo King, Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel, Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities Joel Lopez, Vice President, ASPCA Adoption Center  Evan Oshan, Oshan & Associates, P.C.  Sponsoring Committee: Animal Law Committee, Christopher Wlach, Chair   Co-Sponsoring Committee Transportation Committee, Sanford Balick, Chair Disability Law Committee, John W. Egan, Chair Related Resource: If you're interested in this program, you may be interested in this City Bar resource: A Guide to the Use of Service Animals in New York State

People live longer today than ever before; in fact, Americans over the age of 85 represent one of the fasting growing age groups in the country. This program features three researchers whose findings challenge the accepted views on growing older. On February 19, 2019 John Leland, Amy Nathan and Paula Span shared their findings and provided information on a topic that faces all of us.

Speakers:

John Leland, Author, “Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old”

Amy Nathan, Author, "Making Time for Making Music"

Paula Span, Columnist, The New York Times, “The New Old Age" and “Generation Grandparent”

Sponsoring Association Committee: Senior Lawyers Committee, Barry M. Bloom, Chair

Cosponsoring Committee: Legal Problems of the Aging Committee, Britt Burner, Chair

Meticulous Nazi records of Jews killed in the death camps identify fewer than half of the Holocaust's victims. When, where and how were the other victims killed? Father Patrick Desbois, a French Roman Catholic priest, has sought and found the answer to this question. As a young priest, Father Desbois visited a town in Ukraine where his grandfather, a French Resistance fighter, had been incarcerated by the Nazis. By speaking with village elders, he learned of the process by which the town's Jews had been rounded up, executed and buried in mass graves. His research established that this process had been repeated thousands of times throughout Eastern Europe. Father Desbois discussed his research and the continued effort to uncover genocidal practices around the world, in this Public Affairs Luncheon on February 12, 2019. Speaker: Father Patrick Desbois has devoted his life to the study of the Holocaust and other genocides. He is a founder of Yahad – in Unum (“Together in One”), a global NGO dedicated to discovering genocidal practices around the world and providing documented proof of crimes against humanity. His organization presents “Holocaust by Bullets” – Enhanced Teacher Training seminars to educators around the world. He has spent the last several years with his team gathering testimony from survivors of the Yazidi massacres in Iraq at the hands of ISIS. Sponsoring Association Committee:

Senior Lawyers Committee, Barry M. Bloom, Chair  Public Affairs Luncheon, Frank Wagner, Chair  Cosponsoring Association Committee: International Human Rights Committee, Lauren Melkus, Chair