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1 Hour MCLE Credit 242635ADO

We stand at the precipice of a societal evolution so significant everything is about to change. But how will it change and what  new technologies are facilitating this change? What the legal, ethical, and social questions do we need to start asking and answering? Is there a way to future proof your legal career?

Faculty

• Adam Scott Wandt, Associate Professor of Public Policy, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Faculty Bio

Adam Scott Wandt - Adam Scott Wandt is a tenured Associate Professor of Public Policy and Vice Chair for Technology of the Department of Public Management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He is a member of the graduate faculty in the Master of Public Administration and the Master of Digital Forensics and Cyber Security programs.

Professor Wandt is a practicing Attorney and Counselor-at-Law (New York) and is Co-Chair of the New York City Bar Association's committee on Technology, Cyber, and Privacy Law. He has worked on sponsored research for, or in partnership with, The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Department of Justice, the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics, Interpol, the United Nations, Sprint, Blackboard, as well as law enforcement and educational institutions from around the world.

His primary research and consulting interests include technology law and policy, information security, investigative/surveillance technology, OSINT, cryptocurrency, darknet markets, social engineering, and UCR crime data. He has over two decades of experience developing custom investigative, forensic, educational, and data management solutions for federal, state and local government agencies. In 2020 along with two co-principal investigators, he was awarded a three-year, $600,000 grant from the National Institute of Justice to study fentanyl sales on the dark web and provide software solutions to the Department of Justice to combat the opioid epidemic.

In 2022 and 2023, as a co-principal investigator, he was awarded two grants from the United States Department of Justice, providing approximately $3,400,000 in funding to educate and train US law enforcement personnel in cyber related issues and provide tools to enable advanced cyber forensic investigations.

Appointed as an Instructor by the Association of Inspectors’ General in 2012, Professor Wandt is responsible for the curriculum and certification in digital evidence and social media investigations for the Certified Inspector General (CIG) institute. He is also responsible for the curriculum and certification in digital evidence, digital forensics, social media investigations, mobile device investigations, data interception, and cloud forensics in the Certified Inspector General Investigator (CIGI) institute.

He is a member of the Association of Inspectors' General, the New York City Bar, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the American Society for Criminology, the American Society for Public Administration, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A portal to most of his work is available at https://wandt.us.

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Karen J. Williams Courtroom
University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law

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1 Hour MCLE 243166

Join us for an engaging 60-minute program tailored for attorneys and law students seeking to enhance their advocacy skills. Justin S. Kahn will delve into the dynamic intersection of persuasion, technology, and litigation, offering insights and practical strategies for success in today's legal landscape.

Through real-world examples and interactive discussions, attendees will learn how to leverage cutting-edge technology tools to bolster their persuasive abilities in the courtroom and beyond. From utilizing multimedia presentations to crafting compelling narratives, this session will empower participants to effectively communicate their arguments and sway judges, juries, and mediators.

Whether you're a seasoned attorney looking to refine your advocacy techniques or a law student eager to gain a competitive edge, this program promises to equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to excel in the ever-evolving realm of legal practice. Don't miss this opportunity to sharpen your advocacy toolkit and elevate your professional capabilities.

Faculty

• Justin Kahn Esq., Attorney, Kahn Law Firm

Faculty Bio

Justin Kahn  - Justin is a civil litigator with Kahn Law Firm, LLP in Charleston, S.C. He handles a variety of cases including professional liability and personal injury. He has written, lectured, and taught throughout the country on advocacy, procedure, evidence, ethics, technology, and persuasion.

He is triple board certified by the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys in medical malpractice by the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a civil trial advocate and in civil pretrial practice advocacy. Justin is currently president of ABPLA and is on the board of NBTA. He is a diplomate with the National College of Advocacy of the American Association of Justice.

He is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell and certified by the South Carolina Supreme Court as a civil circuit court mediator.

As an adjunct professor at the Charleston School of Law, Justin teaches civil pretrial practice and deposition skills.

For over 30 years, he has authored the South Carolina Rules Annotated and the South Carolina Rules of Evidence Annotated used by judges and attorneys throughout South Carolina.

He is a member of various professional organizations including the American Association for Justice, South Carolina Association for Justice, South Carolina Bar Association, American Bar Association, permanent member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference, MENSA and the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

He has practiced in state and federal courts throughout the country. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals, United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals, United States Court of Federal Claims, United States District Court for the District of South Carolina and the South Carolina Supreme Court.

He has argued appellate cases before the South Carolina Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, as well as Fourth and Second Circuit Courts of Appeal.

He received a Bachelor of Science from Tulane University in Psychology as well as in Communication in 1988.

He received his Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1992.

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1 Hour Ethics (LEPR) CLE Credit 242636ADO

Generative AI is rapidly transforming the legal landscape, offering unprecedented capabilities for drafting documents, conducting research, and even predicting legal outcomes. However, harnessing this power responsibly requires a nuanced understanding of its inherent risks. This one-hour presentation will delve into the dual nature of generative AI: its potential to revolutionize legal practice while introducing new ethical and practical challenges.

This presentation will explore the following key areas:

1) Assessing the Risks: I will identify the potential pitfalls of using generative AI, such as bias, inaccuracy, and lack of transparency. Participants will gain knowledge of how best to assess such risks.

2) Identifying the Right Tools for the Job: I will demystify the diverse AI tools available and break down their strengths and limitations in specific legal tasks. This will empower participants to make informed decisions about when and how to leverage generative AI for optimal results.

By the end of this session, participants will be equipped with a baseline understanding of generative AI's potential and limitations within the legal domain. 

Faculty

• Colin Levy, Lawyer and Legal Technologist , Director of Legal and Evangelist, Malbek

Faculty Bio

Colin Levy  - Colin S. Levy is a lawyer, author of The Legal Tech Ecosystem, and a prolific writer and speaker. Throughout his career, Colin has seen technology as a key driver in improving how legal services are performed. Because his career has spanned industries, he witnessed a myriad of issues from lack of due diligence and systems to underutilized technologies, to generalized fear or overwhelm around technology. Colin's mission is to bridge the gap between the tech world and the legal world by being a guide to the world of legal tech and advocating for the ways technology should be another set of tools in the lawyer's toolbelt.

Modern anti-money laundering (AML) and corporate transparency requirements create an ethical minefield that lawyers must walk carefully. A number of decisions must be made about the appropriate way to proceed, and how to balance various factors. In addition, emerging data privacy compliance rules create a parallel set of requirements involving the same databases of personal information – and can even create new risks regarding the appropriate use or sharing of personal information.

In this session, we will examine corporate transparency requirements and AML programs through the lens of data privacy to flag potential ethical issues that lawyers should consider when advising clients.

1 Hour Ethics (LEPR) CLE 931873ADO
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Faculty Bios

Alexander McD White - Mr. White is a lawyer qualified to practice law in the United States and a former US federal privacy adviser and IAPP Advisory Board member, with experience working in the insurance industry and managing a state government's privacy program.

​He holds a variety of privacy, legal, cybersecurity, and risk management qualifications and is a two-time graduate of the University of Georgia (US), with further coursework and study with the Harvard Kennedy School, City University (London) Law School, Law Society of Ireland, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Tsinghua University School of Law (Beijing), and Fudan University School of Law (Shanghai).

David Sella Villa -  David Sella Villa is the Chief Privacy Officer for the State of South Carolina and heads the state’s Enterprise Privacy Office.

David is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he teaches Data Privacy Law.  He holds several privacy certifications. David is also a member of the SC Interagency Drone Users Consortium and the Sedona Conference.  David is also the author of law review articles dealing with privacy and emerging technologies.

Prior to being Chief Privacy Officer for the State of South Carolina, David was Assistant General Counsel for the South Carolina Department of Administration.  Prior to that, David worked as General Counsel for a private aviation company.  He earned his law degree from the College of William & Mary, where he continues to serve as Adjunct Faculty.  He also has degrees from the London School of Economics and West Virginia University. 

1 Hour Ethics CLE 932734ADO

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This one-hour CLE presentation is designed to give attendees, with no presumed technical background, an introduction to the field of digital forensics, and its application in legal matters.  The instructor will cover a brief background of the digital forensics field, to current “basics”, including where data sources of interest may be found, and what is possible (or, sometimes, not possible) with respect to the analysis of digital evidence.  The CLE will cover certain legal and ethical obligations of which a legal practitioner should be mindful when working with a digital forensic investigator, and as time allows the instructor will provide a brief demonstration of cell phone forensic analysis and reporting.

This seminar will also go into significant detail the legal and ethical obligations for forensic examiners, as well as the need for lawyers to understand how examiners (that you engage) are accessing, storing, and making use of client information, in relation to following ABA Model Rule of Professional Responsibility - 1.6(c) - duty to safeguard client information.

Faculty

• Clark Walton, Principal and Managing Director, Reliance Forensics, LLC

Faculty Bio

Clark Walton is the principal forensics and cybersecurity expert for Reliance Forensics. He is a licensed North Carolina attorney, an EnCase Certified Examiner (EnCE), and a Cellebrite Certified Mobile Examiner (CCME).

Clark holds a Mathematical Sciences (Computer Science Option) degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. Walton is a former cyber threat analyst and technical project manager for the Central Intelligence Agency, having served there from 2000 to 2005. In that role, he has briefed at the White House and provided written intelligence analysis to high-level consumers including the Director of the FBI, the Attorney General of the United States, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Clark is a former adjunct law professor at the Charlotte School of Law in Charlotte, NC, where he has taught courses in Evidence and Cyber Crime and has served as an Adjunct Graduate Thesis Advisor in the UNC Charlotte Department of Criminology, primarily in the area of search and seizure of mobile cellular devices.

From 2011 to 2014, Clark sat on the American Bar Association Advisory Committee on Law and National Security, where he was published several times in recent years on issues dealing with the intersection of technology and national security law and data security. He has taught CLE courses on federal criminal computer laws and government authority for digital surveillance and has been featured on local NPR and CBS affiliates discussing issues ranging from Facebook privacy to recent government “leak” cases.  Clark frequently speaks to bar associations and other legal affinity groups, as well as technical trade groups such as local affiliates of the ISSA and the North Carolina Technology Association (NCTA).

Clark is also an accomplished attorney, having been named the American Bar Association’s National Outstanding Young Lawyer for 2012-2013.  He previously worked as an associate for the international law firm of Mayer Brown LLP and has served as both an assistant district attorney in Mecklenburg County, NC and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Western District of North Carolina. As a prosecutor, Clark took well over 150 matters to trial. Walton has provided legal testimony in approximately 20 cases and submitted affidavits in dozens of others.  As Reliance’s principal, he has overseen over 650 forensic investigations. He is also a contracted forensic instructor at the National Computer Forensic Institute, a state/federal partnership located in Hoover, Alabama.

1 Hour MCLE CLE 932048ADO
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• What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
• The different types of AI
• AI's general impacts on the practice of law
• What is FinTech?
• Implications of AI for the FinTech Industry

Join Anthony Kim, an experienced Fintech legal counsel dealing with technology and compliance, as he discusses all these topics and how AI will affect the Fintech Industry.

 

Faculty

• Anthony Kim, Senior Legal Counsel- Data, Digital and Payments, TD Bank

Faculty Bio

Anthony Kim – Anthony Kim currently serves as a Senior Legal Counsel - Data, Digital and Payments  for TD Bank, focusing on the intersection of legal, business and technology issues in the financial sector. Prior to joining TD, he was a Product Counsel for FinTech startup Gusto, and also served in business and compliance roles for UnitedHealth and Visa. He has a JD from the University of South Carolina ('15), an MBA from Loyola University of Chicago, and is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps.

Anthony is also the founder of the Kim Technology Award.  This award is presented to a third-year law student who has exhibited an interest in the field of technology, such as intellectual property, e-discovery or legal aspects of web and mobile technologies, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous vehicles, or robotics.

1 Hour MCLE CLE 932613ADO
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Legislators at the local, state, and federal levels are increasingly interested in regulating employers’ use of AI in HR departments.  Proposed legislation ranges from requiring that employers conduct audits of AI algorithms and vendors, mandating that employers provide notice to job applicants regarding the use of AI in the hiring process, and requiring the developmental of internal governance programs that measure, manage, and govern the reasonably foreseeable risks of algorithmic discrimination associated with the use of automated decision tools. 

This seminar will discuss the various legislative proposals that have been introduced (and, in some cases, implemented) and what tools are available to guide employers as they seek to comply with existing law, anticipate upcoming changes to the law, and implement safeguards and best practices in this area.

Faculty

• Leigh Ellen Gray, Attorney, Campbell Teague
• Joseph Seiner, Oliver Ellsworth Professor of Federal Practice , University of South Carolina School of Law

Faculty Bios

Leigh Ellen Gray  - Leigh Ellen is a seasoned employment lawyer with experience in state and federal courts in both South Carolina and Massachusetts. While she specializes in helping employers achieve their business objectives, her defense-side experience gives her a unique advantage in plaintiffs’ cases as well. Leigh Ellen’s other core areas of practice include business litigation and corporate formation.

Leigh Ellen graduated summa cum laude from the Charleston School of Law, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Charleston Law Review. After graduating, she clerked in both state and federal courts before practicing in Massachusetts for a mid-sized defense firm. A South Carolina native, she enjoys playing tennis, reading, traveling, and spending time with her husband and son.

Joseph Seiner  - Joseph Seiner is a Professor of Law and the Oliver Ellsworth Professor of Federal Practice at the University of South Carolina School of Law.  Professor Seiner received his B.B.A., with High Distinction, from the University of Michigan in 1995, where he was an Angell Scholar.  Professor Seiner received his J.D., Magna Cum Laude, Order of the Coif, from the Washington and Lee University School of Law, in 1998. Professor Seiner was a lead articles editor for the Washington and Lee Law Review.

Following law school, Professor Seiner clerked for the late Honorable Ellsworth Van Graafeiland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. After his clerkship, he practiced law with Jenner & Block, LLP, in Chicago, Illinois, where he focused on labor and employment matters. In September 2001, Professor Seiner accepted a position as an appellate attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, D.C., where he presented oral argument as lead counsel in the United States Courts of Appeals in employment discrimination cases.

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of South Carolina School of Law, Professor Seiner was an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he developed and taught a seminar on comparative employment discrimination. Professor Seiner has published twenty law review articles, all in prestigious journals, including the Notre Dame Law Review, the Boston University Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the Boston College Law Review, the William and Mary Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, the U.C. Davis Law Review, the University of Illinois Law Review, the Indiana Law Journal, the Washington Law Review, and the Ohio State Law Journal.  

In 2017, Professor Seiner published The Supreme Court’s New Workplace with Cambridge University Press, a book which examines the intersection of workplace and procedural case law in the federal courts.  In 2021, he published another book with Cambridge University Press, The Virtual Workplace, which explores how recent technological developments have impacted both employees and employers.  This book further examines the role of the pandemic in shaping employment law and virtual work.

November 2, 2023 @ 2:40 PM – 4:00 PM
Karen J. Williams Courtroom
FREE In-Person 1 Hour MCLE CLE 933163
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the legal industry by storm — and is a rapidly evolving technology that holds immense potential for transforming various aspects of our lives. AI has the power to revolutionize the legal profession and drive innovation. However, as we embark on this exciting journey, it is crucial to emphasize responsible AI development and deployment. Join us to gain a better understanding of how to approach AI with a responsible mindset and how to best harness its capabilities.

Join us for an engaging panel discussion featuring renowned experts and early adopters of AI technology who will share their firsthand experiences, success stories, and challenges encountered while working with AI and integrating AI into their organizations. From machine learning to natural language processing, we will explore cutting-edge AI applications, exploring how they are revolutionizing sectors such as healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and, of course, legal. Don't miss this opportunity to engage with thought leaders at the forefront of AI innovation and explore the endless possibilities this technology holds.

Faculty

• Moderator – Kevin Brown, Mitchell Willoughby Professor of Law University of South Carolina School of Law
• Anthony D’ Elia, Assistant General Counsel and CISO for the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Adjunct Professor of Law for the University of South Carolina School of Law
• John Motz, Chief Technology Officer, NetDocuments
• Bryant Walker Smith, Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law

Faculty Bios

Kevin Brown  - Professor Kevin Brown joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina School of Law on June 1, 2022.  Before that, he had been on the faculty of Indiana University Maurer School of Law since 1987.  In 1978, Brown graduated with distinction from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business where he majored in Accounting.  Brown graduated from Yale Law School in 1982.  After graduation, he joined the Indianapolis law firm of Baker & Daniels (now Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP) until 1987. 

He teaches Torts, Law and Education, Race & Law, and Transnational Inequality on a regular basis but has also taught Law & Education, Criminal Law, Sports Law and Law & Development.  Brown has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas School of Law, the University of Alabama School of Law, and the University of San Diego School of Law.  He has been affiliated with universities on four different continents including the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, India; the Indian Law Institute in New Delhi, India; the law faculty of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa; the law faculty of the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa; Adilet Law School in Almaty, Kazakhstan; the University of Central America in Managua, Nicaragua; and the School of Transnational Law of Peking University in Shenzhen. Brown also spent the spring semester of 2014 teaching in the London Law School Consortium Program.

Brown was an original participant in both the first Critical Race Theory Workshop held in Madison, Wisconsin in 1989 (as well as the next four annual workshops) and the first People of Color Conference held in Chicago in 1991.  For over 35 years his primary research interests are in the areas of race, law and education and the global impact of the African-American struggle.  Brown has published over 80 articles or comments on issues such as critical race theory, school desegregation, affirmative action, African-American Immersion Schools, increasing school choice, the impact of the African-Americans on anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, and the inspiration the 250 million Dalits in India have drawn from African-Americans.  Carolina Academic Press published his 2005 book, Race, Law and Education in the Post Desegregation Era and his 2014 book, Because of Our Success:  The Changing Racial and Ethnic Ancestry of Blacks on Affirmative Action.  His chapter entitled "The History and Conceptual Elements of Critical Race Theory," is the first chapter in the Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education. 

A frequent speaker at scholarly conferences, Brown has spoken on issues of race, education, diversity, or the global impact of African-Americans over 300 times including at the annual Convention of the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus Braintrust Meetings, the National Bar Association, the National Summit of Black Women Lawyers, the American Bar Association,  the Justices of the Indiana Supreme Court, and the High Commission of India in London; at several leading law schools and universities including Harvard, Columbia, NYU, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Duke, Cornell, Emory, Northwestern, UCLA, and Texas; and several overseas institutions including at Oxford University, the University of Mumbai, University of Kasel, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Al-Quds University outside Jerusalem, Jindal Global Law School, and the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.

Anthony D’Elia -  Anthony D’Elia is the Assistant General Counsel and CISO for the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.  He also has been an Adjunct Professor of Law for the University of South Carolina School of Law since August 2020 where he teaches the course “Technology and the Practice of Law”.

Prior to working for the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources,  D’Elia was an Associate Attorney for Bowman and Brooke.  Prior to that, D’Elia was a Law Clerk to the Honorable James E’ Lockemy, Chief Judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals.  Prior to his clerkship with Justice Lockemy, D’Elia was also a staff attorney for the South Carolina Court of Appeals.

D'Elia received his JD from the  University of South Carolina School of Law, graduating in the Class of 2018.  While he was a law student, he was the Symposium Co-Editor for the South Carolina Law Review Symposium “Surviving the A.I. Surge: Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of Law” which was held on February 9, 2018.

John Motz – John Motz is the Chief Technology Officer for NetDocuments.  He is a technology-savvy leader with over twenty-five years’ experience in SMB and Enterprise SaaS software, utilizing creativity, facilitative leadership and teamwork to design strategies and execute solutions that create products and services customers love.  Motz is an effective communicator with the ability to create visions that inspire employees conveying value for customers and shareholders. He has experience managing global product development teams and collaborating with large local field sales teams and global channel sales organizations.

Prior to joining NetDocuments, Motz was SVP of Mindbody Software, which develops wellness software. He has also been CTO of GrayMeta Inc., vice president of product at ADP, and product and development leader at Intuit.

Motz recently co-authored a guest post with Dan Hauck. Chief product officer at NetDocuments, on Legal IT Insider “ Guest post: Moving fast but responsibly – A briefing from NetDocuments on the promise and pitfalls of generative AI”. 

Bryant Walker Smith - Bryant Walker Smith is an associate professor in the School of Law and (by courtesy) the School of Engineering at the University of South Carolina, as well as an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.

Trained as a lawyer and an engineer, Smith advises cities, states, countries, and the United Nations on emerging transport technologies. He coauthored the globally influential levels of driving automation, drafted a model law for automated driving, and taught the first legal course dedicated to automated driving [pdf] (in 2012). Smith is currently writing on what it means for a company to be trustworthy. His publications are available at newlypossible.org.

Before joining the University of South Carolina, Smith led the legal aspects of automated driving program at Stanford University, clerked for the Hon. Evan J. Wallach at the United States Court of International Trade, and worked as a fellow at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He holds both an LL.M. in International Legal Studies and a J.D. (cum laude) from New York University School of Law and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin. Prior to his legal career, Smith worked as a transportation engineer.

Online 1 Hour SC LEPR (Ethics) CLE Credit 234384ADO
Powerful new computer technology tools and those touting their utility create the impression that the all the rules are changing, or that in fact there are no rules. Witness the ubiquity of “game changer” and “disruptive” throughout the discourse.

However, the Rules of Professional Responsibility apply with the same force whether a lawyer is using a legal pad or a supercomputer. The obligations of competence (Rule 1.1), confidentiality of information (Rule 1.6), and safekeeping property (Rule 1.15) have not changed in the wake of bright, shiny, and powerful computer tools.

Effectiveness as a lawyer requires using the tools available to you. You are already using many of those tools. Identifying and understanding the way you use information and knowledge to solve problems will help show the way toward effective computer technology use-as long as you don’t forget the use of people and processes along the way.

This CLE will offer some observations about learning to identify and manage your information and knowledge, with the help of your existing tools (people, processes, and computer technology). Taking this approach hopefully will make the process of change(such as the adoption of new computer tools) more manageable and assist in satisfying all ethical obligations as lawyers adapt.

We’ll also discuss why the use of computer technology is now a crucial part of a lawyer’s toolkit, why some attorneys resist change and technology, and how to plan to use computer technology more effectively in connection with your other tools.  And then Mr. Pringle will  have some tips for using computer technology more effectively, and some resources you can consult in order to get better.

Faculty

Jack Pringle, Partner, Adams and Reese LLP

Jack Pringle is a partner with Adams and Reese, LLP in Columbia. Jack focuses his practice on privacy, information security, and information governance, administrative and regulatory law; public utilities; land use litigation; and class action litigation.

Jack helps businesses protect, manage, and communicate information lawfully and effectively, and has received the Information Privacy Professional (CIPP-US) designation from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (“IAPP”).

With an Information Privacy Professional (CIPP-US) designation from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), Jack helps businesses protect, manage, and communicate information lawfully and effectively. He guides clients through information incidents, data breaches, and related threats in connection with federal and state breach notice and personal information and privacy laws, including notification, mitigation, regulatory response and resulting lawsuits and investigations. Jack helps organizations strengthen their information security programs by evaluating potential cybersecurity insurance coverage, developing, and testing incident response plans, and helping clients create and implement appropriate security policies and training.

Jack has been a regular speaker and writer on technology in law, ethical issues in relation to technology in law, and wellness and well-being issues. He has spoken before/at the University of South Carolina School of Law, Vanderbilt University School of Law, Association of Corporate Counsel-South Carolina, Richland County Bar Association, the South Carolina Bar, the Georgia Bar Convention, the South Carolina Association of Counties, the Canadian Bar Association, the South Carolina Defense Trial Lawyers Association, the South Carolina Association of County Attorneys, the South Carolina LPM-Tech Conference, the Greenville County Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, The South Carolina Public Service Commission/SC Office of Regulatory Staff, the SC Council of School Attorneys, the SC Association of County Attorneys and the SC Workers’ Compensation Education Association, among others.

Over the past couple of years, Jack has spoken and written frequently on emerging technology and its ethical and best use in legal practice and beyond.

https://twitter.com/jjpringlesc

https://www.slideshare.net/jjpringle317

https://medium.com/@jjpringlesc

https://pringlepracticeblog.blogspot.com/

https://listenlikealawyer.com/2016/12/22/resolve-to-use-your-device-as-a-tool-and-to-resist-being-tooled-by-it/

http://www.leanlawfirmbook.com/ep-30-how-to-create-space-and-build-resilience/  

February 16, 2023 @ 8:00 – 9:00 AM
Online 1 Hour MH/SA SC CLE Credit 234817ADO
This CLE will present an overview of the importance of wellness and how lawyers can use technology to improve mental health. Lawyers and law students will enhance their understanding of the importance of self-care and how they can utilize technology to habitualize daily self-care routines to focus on improving their mental health. The faculty will begin with an overview of the research regarding the impact of technology and social media on our mental health, including a discussion of key considerations for lawyers.

The presenters will then cover more in-depth content on key areas (mindfulness, exercise, nutrition, and music) where technology can be an effective tool to help lawyers focus on self-care, wellness, and improving their mental health. The CLE will conclude with several recommendations for how various features and specific apps on smartphones, tablets, and computers can help lawyers routinize a daily focus on wellness and improving their mental health.

Faculty:

Christopher Church, JD, MS

Academic Affiliate & Pro Bono Attorney, University of South Carolina School of Law

Christopher is a Senior Director for Strategic Consulting at Casey Family Programs, the nation's largest private operating foundation focused on safely reducing the need for foster care and building Communities of Hope. Christopher is also an Academic Affiliate and Pro Bono Attorney with the CHAMPS Clinic at the University of South Carolina School of Law, a pediatric medical-legal partnership. CHAMPS partners with the local children’s hospital to provide civil legal aid that addresses the social determinants of health. Prior to joining Casey, Christopher was the Staff Attorney at CHAMPS, and served as a consultant to a number of child welfare organizations such as Casey Family Programs, the Children's Bureau's Capacity Building Center for Courts, the ABA Center on Children and the Law, the National Center for State Courts, and NCJFCJ. His consulting focused primarily on the use of administrative data to identify opportunities for child welfare system improvement. He began his career working for Georgia's Court Improvement Program. Christopher holds a Masters in Mathematics from the University of North Texas and a Juris Doctor from Gonzaga University School of Law. He completed his undergraduate studies at Concordia College in New York. He is licensed to practice law in Georgia and South Carolina, and is South Carolina's first Child Welfare Law Specialist, a specialization certified by the National Association of Counsel for Children.

Emily Suski, LLM, JD, MSW

Associate Dean for Clinics and Externships & Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law

Emily Suski is the Associate Dean for Clinics and Externships and an Associate Professor of Law. Her areas of expertise include education law—particularly, Title IX and civil rights in the public schools; health & poverty law; and clinical legal education. Her scholarship explores issues at the intersection of education law and civil rights as well as the role of the law in the caretaking of children. Her articles have been published in journals including the Iowa Law Review (forthcoming), Minnesota Law Review, California Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Maryland Law Review, and Clinical Law Review.  Prior to joining the University of South Carolina faculty, Suski was on the faculty at Georgia State University College of Law, where she taught family law and in a medical-legal partnership clinic. She has taught as a lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law and was a clinical teaching fellow at Georgetown University Law Center. In addition, she was a staff attorney for the JustChildren Program of the Legal Aid Justice Center in Charlottesville, Virginia. She holds an LL.M. with honors from Georgetown University Law Center and a J.D., M.S.W., and B.A. with distinction from the University of North Carolina.

February 24, 2023 @ 8:00 AM – Noon
In Person - Karen Williams Courtroom at the University of South Carolina School of Law
3 Hour SC CLE Credit 236411

Breakfast – Perrin Family Event Space

Panel 1- “Digital Assets”

8:15 AM – 9:45 AM

Blockchain technologies have enabled new economic opportunities and new business strategies. This panel will discuss how blockchain works, the technology behind blockchain,  the key attributes of blockchain and how it is used transacting in digital assets.

The panel will also discuss the major types of digital assets, how blockchain digital assets connect a vast number of users and investors, leading to new economies.   It will also discuss the impact on business models, the law, tax codes, as well as the threats and risks to fiscal and monetary policy.  The panel will discuss the impact of decentralized financial products on the banking industry.

Faculty

• Moderator - David Sella Villa, Chief Privacy Officer, State of South Carolina
• Will Walker, Walker Law, LLC
• Tessa Davis, Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law

Panel 2 - “The Moral Imperative for Blockchain Litigation”

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Blockchain technology is a burgeoning area of the law as permissionless, distributed ledgers such as Bitcoin and Ethereum now command approximately $750 billion in market capitalization and host an untold number of commercial transactions each day. But for all the promise of blockchain technology, it has also created new ways for fraudsters, scam artists, and thieves to practice their nefarious crafts.

Governments have been slow to react to these developments and the near-total absence of regulation within the blockchain has created a digital Wild West in which cattle rustlers and stagecoach robbers have been replaced by computer hackers and social media influencers. To save the blockchain we must learn to police it. Lawyers must deputize themselves into a Sheriff’s posse that will bring law to the lawless. This presentation will discuss exactly how we will accomplish this goal.

Faculty

• Moderator – Tyler Passarella, President, Blockchain Society Student Organization, University of South Carolina School of Law
• Dave Maxfield, Consumer Law Attorney, Dave Maxfield Consumer Protection Law
• Graham Newman, Attorney, Chappell Smith and Arden
  

Faculty Bios

Dave Maxfield - Dave Maxfield has represented more than a thousand individual consumers in cases against banks, credit reporting agencies, and insurance companies. Dave is the three-time Chairman of the Consumer Law section of the South Carolina Bar and a member of the National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA) and Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA).  He is Past President of the Richland County Bar Association, the largest county bar association in South Carolina with over 1900 members.

Dave is also an adjunct professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law where he teaches Consumer Law and the Lean Law Firm Lab.  He has taught more than 100  Continuing Legal Education (CLE) programs to other lawyers, and speaks regularly in the media  on issues affecting consumers. In addition to speaking on consumer law issues, he frequently trains other lawyers on the use of technology, speaking  at the American Bar Association’s National Techshow in Chicago in 2011, 2012,  2013 and 2018. 

Dave  has also worked with law students at the University of Colorado, UCLA, William & Mary, and Harvard Law School on technology use.  Articles by and about him have appeared in South Carolina Lawyer Magazine, ABA Magazine, and Lawyer’s Weekly newspaper.  Dave is Co-Author of the American Bar Association’s bestselling book, The Lean Law Firm.

Graham Newman - Graham Newman’s work focuses on complex litigation, including products liability and class actions. He is currently involved in many different areas of multidistrict litigation (MDL), including MDL 2738 (IN RE: Johnson & Johnson Talcum Powder Products Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation), MDL 2741 (IN RE: Roundup Products Liability Litigation), and MDL 2885 (IN RE: 3M Combat Arms Earplug Products Liability Litigation). Presently, he is also litigating a class action regarding the unlawful sale of cryptocurrency.

Graham joined Chappell Smith & Arden, P.A. in June of 2014, having previously focused on commercial class actions, contractual litigation, insurance bad faith, and products liability in both state and federal court. His trial court victories have included a $14.5 million insurance bad faith verdict, an $8 million class action judgment, and a $4.75 million products liability verdict. Recently, Graham also served as one of the leading attorneys in Parler v. SCANA Corporation, et al., a derivative and securities class action that resulted in a $63 million settlement.

Graham has briefed numerous appeals before the South Carolina Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and United States Supreme Court. He has also argued four cases before the South Carolina Court of Appeals and two cases before the South Carolina Supreme Court. Notable appellate court victories include the following: Bovain v. Canal Insurance Company, 383 S.C. 100, 678 S.E.2d 422 (S.C. 2009); Ward v. Dixie Nat. Life Ins. Co., 595 F.3d 164 (4th Cir. 2010); Stevens & Wilkinson of S.C., Inc. v. City of Columbia, 409 S.C. 563, 762 S.E.2d 693 (2014); Kirven v. Cent. States Health & Life Co., of Omaha, 409 S.C. 30, 760 S.E.2d 794 (2014); and State v. Samuel, 411 S.C. 602, 769 S.E.2d 662 (2015).

In addition to practicing law, Graham teaches an undergraduate legal course through the University of South Carolina Honors College and serves on several boards and committees dedicated to the improvement of the judicial system. Graham is married to Jenny Honeycutt Newman, who is also an attorney. The couple have a nine-year-old son, a ten-year-old Portuguese Water Dog, and a five-year-old King Charles Cavalier Spaniel. The Newman family enjoys spending time on Lake Murray and attending as many South Carolina Gamecock sporting events as possible.

David Sella Villa - David Sella Villa is the Chief Interim Privacy Officer for the State of South Carolina.  He is also an Assistant General Counsel for the South Carolina Department of Administration assigned to technology issues.  David works on procurement and policy matters related to privacy, security, service consolidation, and data management.

David is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he teaches Data Privacy Law.  He holds the IAPP’s CIPP/US & CIPP/E privacy certifications and the GIAC’s GLEG data security certification. David is also a member of the SC Interagency Drone Users Consortium. 

Prior to joining the Department of Administration, David worked as General Counsel for a private aviation company.  He earned his law degree from the College of William & Mary, where he continues to serve as Adjunct Faculty.  He also has degrees from the London School of Economics and West Virginia University.  His interest in legal issues related to drones blends his current work on privacy.

Tessa Davis - Tessa Davis is an associate professor of law specializing in taxation and tax policy at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Davis focuses her research on the ways in which tax law and policy are influenced by cultural context. Her research interests include the intersection of tax with many different areas of law, including immigration law, family law, law and technology, and health law. Her scholarship has appeared in many respected journals, including Denver Law Review, the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law, the Florida State University Law Review, the Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender, the Florida State University Journal of Transnational Law & Policy, Kentucky Law Journal, Oregon Law Review, and the George Mason Law Review. 

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of South Carolina, Davis was a visiting assistant professor at Tulane University Law School. She earned an LLM in Taxation in 2012 from New York University School of Law and received her JD from Florida State University College of Law, where she graduated Order of the Coif.  While at NYU, Davis received a 2011 Tannenwald Award for Excellence in Tax Scholarship for her article “Reproducing Value: How Tax Law Differentially Values Fertility, Sexuality & Marriage” (Cardozo Journal of Law and Gender, Fall 2012). She also received the Florida State University Law Review award for “Outstanding Student Piece of the Year” for an article focusing on international law. Davis graduated from Davidson College with a BA in Anthropology and received an MSc in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics.

Will Walker - Will graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2009, after which he served as law clerk to the Honorable L. Casey Manning in the South Carolina Circuit Court. Upon the completion of his clerkship, Will entered private practice, working for Walker Morgan LLC from 2011 to 2019 where he had the privilege of representing injured plaintiffs in complex products liability lawsuits, cases involving burn injuries and various other forms of personal injury litigation. In September 2022, Will joined Walker Law, LLC and is now managing partner of the firm where he handles all types of personal injury cases with a focus on products liability litigation.

Outside of his law practice, Will has been actively involved in the digital asset space as an investor and trader since 2016, becoming a full-time trader and investor in 2019. During that time, he was a founding member of Deus Ex DAO, which is a decentralized invite-only investment community, angel syndicate and advisory service provider to project teams in the DeFi space. While Will remains as passionate as ever about the revolutionary power of blockchain technology generally, his focus is primarily on the DeFi sector and the exponential innovation which has occurred in that area over the last 3 years. Will believes DeFi has the potential to bring significant, disruptive change to the traditional financial system as we know it today.

Will resides here in Columbia with his wife, Amelia Waring, and their three children.

March 23, 2023 @ 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Online 1 Hour SC Ethics CLE Credit 237095ADO

This presentation will discuss the background, sources of, and solutions to bias in artificial intelligence ( AI). This will include examples of bias in such AI tools as sentencing recommendation and parole/ probation guidelines employed by courts around the country, as well as solutions ( or proposed solutions) in the form of local anti-bias ordinances as well as the national Accountability in AI Act. In addition, the presentation will discuss the importance, from a legal ethics standpoint, of addressing bias in AI and the ethical, responsible use of AI as called for in the ABA’s August 2019 Resolution 112.

The presentation will also cover the multiple Model Rules of Professional Conduct that are implicated by the use of AI in the legal profession, including but not limited to the duty of technology competence under Rule 1.1, the duty to refrain from engaging in bias under Rule 8.4(g), and the duties to supervise under Rules 5.1 and 5.3. As this presentation will demonstrate, AI use is impacting the ethical dimensions of many lawyerly tasks, including such tasks as jury selection, where the danger of bias in AI is particularly acute.”

Faculty

• John Browning, Distinguished Jurist in Residence, Faulkner University Thomas Goode Jones School of Law.

Faculty Bio

John Browning - Browning serves as Distinguished Jurist in Residence at Faulkner University Thomas Goode Jones School of Law.  He teaches torts, professional responsibility, “Social Media, Emerging Technologies, and the Law,” as well as other courses.  In his Spring 2022 seminar “Social Media, Emerging Technologies, and the Law”, his five seminar students each wrote a 3–5-page article for publication in national or regional legal publications.

John is also a partner at Spencer Fane, and also serves as Chair of the Institute for Law & Technology at the Center for American and International Law. He is the author of multiple books on law and technology, as well as more than 50 law review articles.  A nationally recognized thought leader on law and technology, Justice Browning formerly served on Texas’ Fifth Court of Appeals before returning to private practice and legal academia. His work has been cited by state and federal courts around the country. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and the University of Texas School of Law.

John has done significant research in AI, specifically as it relates to ethics, as well as racial bias. He wrote an article “Please See the HR Robot on Your Way Out: Artificial Intelligence and Its Effect on Employment Law” in  For The Defense, a magazine of the Defense Research Institute, The article addresses the ethical concerns that the use of artificial intelligence in the workplace raise for employment lawyers.   In March 2022, John wrote “Real World Ethics in an Artificial Intelligence World” for the Northern Kentucky Law Review (49 N. KY. L. REV. 155 (2022)).

Browning was announced as the recipient of the Maurice Merrill Golden Quill Award at the Oklahoma Bar Association’s General Assembly on November 12, 2021. This annual award is named after Professor Maurice Merrill, an accomplished legal scholar and long-serving professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.  The OBA gives this award to “the author of the best-written article published this year in the Oklahoma Bar Journal.” His award-winning article “Blazing the Trail: Oklahoma Pioneer African American Attorneys” was featured in the May 2021 issue of the Oklahoma Bar Journal.

In July 2022, John was honored with the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Silver Gavel Award for Media and the Arts, which recognizes outstanding work that fosters the public’s understanding of law and the legal system. It is the ABA’s highest honor in recognition of this purpose.  John was honored for his role in conceiving of, curating, and writing much of the content for the Oklahoma Bar Journal’s May 2021 special issue devoted to Black legal history in Oklahoma.

John is also a past speaker in the University of South Carolina School of Law LegalTech Seminar Series, presenting in the Spring 2021 series on “AI and Racial Bias”.

April 4 @ 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Online 1 Hour SC CLE Credit 237093ADO

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Comment 8 to Rule 1.1, SCRPC, encourages lawyers to maintain an understanding of “the benefits and risks associated with technology.” Panelists will briefly demonstrate examples of generative AI technology, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and the integration of GPT-3.5 into DocketAlarm for document summaries. Panelists will critically evaluate benefits and risks of ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies. Will generative AI technologies change the practice of law, and if so, how can legal education adapt?

Faculty

• Amy Milligan, Assistant Director of Legal Writing, University of South Carolina School of Law
• Jack Neil, Founder and CEO, Hank AI
• Eve Ross, Reference Librarian, University of South Carolina School of Law
• Seth Stoughton, Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law
• Bryant Walker Smith, Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law

Faculty Bios

Amy Milligan - Amy Milligan is the Assistant Director of Legal Writing, coordinating the first-year legal writing program. She teaches Legal Research, Analysis & Writing I and II to first-year law students; she has also taught Advanced Legal Writing and Writing in Law Practice to second- and third-year law students. Milligan authored and maintains Word Fundamentals for Efficient Lawyers and Law Students, an online guide for lawyers and law students to increase their technical proficiency when crafting documents with Microsoft Word. Additionally, she serves as the Editor of the American Bar Association's Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Journal, and she is active in the ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Law section. Milligan is also a frequent lecturer for seminars focused on legal writing and legal citation.

Prior to joining the faculty, Milligan practiced law in Columbia, South Carolina. Her practice focused on property-related matters. On the real property side, she counseled clients on real property rights, and she litigated real estate and premises liability matters. On the intellectual property side, she assisted creative professionals with protecting their copyrights and trademarks. Her practice areas also included corporate law and insurance defense.

Milligan received a B.A. in Communications a B.S. in Business Administration and from the College of Charleston, and she earned her J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law.

Jack Neil - Jack Neil, MD is CEO & Founder of Hank.ai and a practicing anesthesiologist at MUSC Midlands in South Carolina. At HANK, Delaware C-Corp founded in 2019, he is focused on increasing revenue integrity and reducing administrative costs in the revenue cycle by human augmentation and automation while continuing to build towards the vision of AI-measured value-based payment models which encourage shorter documentation and better cost-effective care decisions. He is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Committee on Informatics and Information Technology, founding member of the ASA’s working group on Artificial Intelligence, member of the AAMI’s Health IT Committee, and a member of the APSF’s Committee on Technology. A physician and application developer by training, his passions lie at the intersect of healthcare and technology. He is an active member of the AIMed community and has spoken extensively on the topic of artificial intelligence in healthcare. He has written blockchain health record distributed applications (mymed.udifi.com), medical-device compliance reporting smart-contracts (silono.com), acoustic detection and classification neural networks (aud.ai), nursery smart-monitors with on-board cry detection and correction (babifi.com), anesthesia information management systems (Neptune), autonomous cryptocurrency trading bots (Cryptifi), remote video-surveillance and trapping systems (HogNet), and web applications (Carousel USA; ClassicCamo) to name a few. He is a contributor to numerous machine learning and blockchain libraries on GitHub and has filed patents in the fields of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and secure medical device communication utilizing blockchain. 

He has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from the University of South Carolina. He worked for a year as a Systems Architect at Premier Environmental Solutions where he developed applications to unify CRM, billing, and asset tracking and surveillance. He received his Medical Doctorate from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in 2009. He completed one year of pediatric residency at Palmetto Health in Columbia, SC followed by a year of surgery residency at Queens Medical Center in Honolulu, HI. He completed his residency in anesthesiology at the Medical College of Georgia, followed by a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at the University of Michigan. He is board certified in Anesthesiology by the American Board of Anesthesiology. In his post-training years, he has held technology positions at Blue9 Systems and MedStream Anesthesia. He still actively practices anesthesiology one day per week. He is married to his lovely angel wife Kristen (a pediatrician), and they have 3 children - Hank 5yo, Emma 2yo, and Lyla 0yo. 

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Eve Ross - Eve Ross received her J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2007, and her M.L.I.S. from the University of South Carolina's School of Library and Information Science in 2014.

Prior to joining the USC faculty, Ms. Ross was a research specialist at McNair Law Firm (now Burr & Forman). She previously practiced public finance law at McNair Law Firm, and she has taught legal research and writing to paralegal students on the community college level. She is treasurer of the Southeastern chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries (SEAALL) and serves on the South Carolina Bar Technology Committee.

Ms. Ross teaches Legal Research, Analysis & Writing, and has taught Advanced Legal Research and Supervised Legal Research. Her research interests include access to legal information, and technology in law practice.

Seth Stoughton  - Seth Stoughton is a Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law and a Professor (Affiliate) in the university’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He is a core faculty member with the Rule of Law Collaborative. He studies on policing and how it is regulated, and his scholarship has appeared in the Emory Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, other top journals. He is the principal co-author of Evaluating Police Uses of Force (NYU Press 2020), and has written book chapters about the police misconduct, the use of force, and use-of-force review. He is a frequent lecturer on policing issues; regularly appears on national and international media; has written about policing for The New York Times, The Atlantic, TIME, and other news publications; and has filed multiple amicus briefs to the Supreme Court.  In 2021, he testified as a use-of-force expert for the prosecution in the trial of Derek Chauvin, who was convicted for killing George Floyd.

Stoughton teaches Police Law & Policy, Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law, and the Regulation of Vice.  He was honored with the School of Law’s Outstanding Classroom Teacher Award in 2016 and 2021 and the Outstanding Faculty Publication Award (Book) in 2021, and with the Honorable Matthew J. Perry, Jr. Chapter of the National Black Law Students Association’s Eboni S. Nelson Award in 2015 and 2018.

Stoughton served as an officer with the Tallahassee Police Department for five years. In that time, he trained other officers, helped write policies to govern the use of new technologies, earned multiple instructor and operator certifications, and taught personal safety and self-defense courses in the community. In 2004, he received a Formal Achievement Award for his role as a founding member of the Special Response Team. After leaving the police department, Stoughton spent three years as an Investigator in the Florida Department of Education's Office of Inspector General, where he handled a variety of criminal and administrative investigations. In 2008, he received a statewide award for his work combating private school tuition voucher fraud.

Stoughton earned his B.A. in English from Florida State University. He attended the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was an articles editor on the Virginia Law Review, an Elsie Hughes Cabell Scholar, and the recipient of the Thomas Marshall Miller Prize. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Kenneth F. Ripple of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Prior to joining the faculty at South Carolina, Stoughton was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where he taught legal writing and a Regulation of Vice seminar.

Follow him on Twitter @PoliceLawProf.

Bryant Walker Smith - Bryant Walker Smith is an associate professor in the School of Law and (by courtesy) the School of Engineering at the University of South Carolina, as well as an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.

Trained as a lawyer and an engineer, Smith advises cities, states, countries, and the United Nations on emerging transport technologies. He coauthored the globally influential levels of driving automation, drafted a model law for automated driving, and taught the first legal course dedicated to automated driving [pdf] (in 2012). Smith is currently writing on what it means for a company to be trustworthy. His publications are available at newlypossible.org.

Before joining the University of South Carolina, Smith led the legal aspects of automated driving program at Stanford University, clerked for the Hon. Evan J. Wallach at the United States Court of International Trade, and worked as a fellow at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He holds both an LL.M. in International Legal Studies and a J.D. (cum laude) from New York University School of Law and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin. Prior to his legal career, Smith worked as a transportation engineer.