Dentons - In-House Counsel CLE Webinar Series - 6/22 & 6/28
Agenda
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
12-1 p.m. ET
New Data Privacy Laws: Understanding Virginia’s, Colorado’s and Utah’s Consumer Data Protection Acts and How They Compare to the CPPA/CPRA and the GDPR
This course will discuss the applicability and key components of Virginia, Colorado, and Utah’s new laws, which all go into effect in 2023. It will also discuss how these laws compare with other significant data privacy laws, such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, the California Consumer Privacy Act and the CPRA. Lastly, it will provide attendees with steps to prepare for compliance with the new state laws and strategies for building privacy policies and programs that are adaptable in the constantly shifting legislative and regulatory climate.
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
3-4 p.m. ET
The Future of LGBTQ Rights in a Potentially Post-Roe World
The recent leak of the draft majority Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization indicated the high court was ready to dismantle 50 years of precedent concerning reproductive rights. Legal scholars also worry the sweeping draft leaves other critical civil rights—particularly the hard-fought gains of America's LGBTQ community—vulnerable.
Dentons’ Senior Counsel Evan Wolfson, who helped engineer the freedom to marry over three decades of legal and political campaigning, will join Lamba Legal's Jenny Pizer and the National Center for Lesbian Rights' Shannon Minter in a moderated discussion led by GLOW co-chairs Sandra Tsung and James Richardson for a special CLE panel on the future of LGBTQ rights in a potentially post-Roe world.
Speaker Bios: The Future of LGBTQ Rights in a Potentially Post-Roe World
Evan Wolfson is senior counsel at Dentons and an internationally recognized civil rights lawyer and strategist. He was the founder and president of Freedom to Marry, the pioneering campaign which drove the successful strategy that won same-sex couples the right to marry throughout the United States.
Widely acknowledged as the architect of the marriage equality movement, Evan has been an advocate for human rights around the world since 1983, when he wrote his Harvard Law School thesis on gay people and the freedom to marry. During the 1990s he served as co-counsel in the historic Hawaii marriage case that launched the ongoing global freedom to marry conversation, and has participated in numerous gay rights and HIV/AIDS cases.
Jennifer Pizer is the Law and Policy Director for Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest national legal organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and people living with HIV. Since joining Lambda Legal's staff in 1996, Pizer has been a leading voice for ending marriage discrimination against lesbian and gay couples, for stopping anti-LGBT discrimination in employment, health care, and education, and against the misuse of religion to discriminate. In addition to litigating impact cases, she develops legislation, advises policymakers, and works with community advocates to advance family law and nondiscrimination protections, and to oppose overbroad religious exemptions.
Shannon Minter is the legal director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights, where he oversees litigation, legislation, and policy advocacy, with special expertise in family law, youth law, education law, immigration and asylum law, employment discrimination and HIV criminalization.
In 2001, Minter represented the lesbian partner of a woman in a wrongful death case due to a dog mauling that resulted in a landmark decision in California that extended tort claims to same-sex domestic partners. He was lead counsel for same-sex couples in the landmark 2009 California marriage equality case which held that same-sex couples have the fundamental right to marry and that laws that discriminate based on sexual orientation are inherently discriminatory and subject to the highest level of constitutional scrutiny.
Minter was also NCLR’s lead attorney in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld student group policies prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The ruling also rejected the argument that such policies violated a student group’s rights to freedom of speech, religion and association.
CLE
CLE credit for the live webinars is being sought in Arizona, California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah and Virginia. Credit for all other states must be applied for and submitted by individual attendees. Compliance with each state's MCLE requirements is the sole responsibility of the attendee.
Dentons can only issue CLE credit for attendance during the live broadcast of the webinar. Credit for viewing a pre-recorded session is the responsibility of the individual.
Questions
For more information or any questions regarding this series, please contact Kasey Kapitanek at Kasey.kapitanek@dentons.com.