Wednesday, 28 May 2025
09:15 - 13:00
(
3 hours 45 mins )
Online
This essential Data Protection event, tailored for HR professionals and compliance teams, offers comprehensive training on safeguarding sensitive data amidst today’s privacy challenges.
With expert speakers including Duncan Inverarity, Partner at A&L Goodbody LLP and Mark Ellis, Partner at A&L Goodbody LLP, you will hear directly the latest trends and insights on how to keep your organisation compliant in the evolving regulatory landscape in Ireland.
After attending you will:
This event is an invaluable opportunity for HR teams to strengthen their understanding of data protection, develop compliant practices, and prepare for new challenges in 2025.
This event is aimed at employers and HR professionals with data protection responsibilities and concerns.
Legal Island's Data Protection Update is specifically designed to provide you with a comprehensive overview of the data protection issues that matter to HR professionals and employers in Ireland.
We set out the most important data protection risks and solutions facing employers and provide practical examples and solutions for you to implement in your organisation immediately.
Here's what to expect during Legal Answers to HR Dilemmas.
An introduction to the event with Laura McKee, Knowledge Partner, Legal Island
Mark Ellis, Partner, Commercial & Technology, A&L Goodbody, sets out the most important data protection risks and solutions facing employers and their organisations in 2025, including:
Data subject access requests are routinely used in litigation, often instead of or as a precursor to discovery procedures. What exactly can be refused in a DSAR or discovery request on data protection grounds? What can you do to at least reduce the size/amount of documents?
Duncan Inverarity, Partner, Employment Law Practice Group, A&L Goodbody, explores the grounds on which a DSAR can be refused or reduced, including:
With Mark Ellis and Duncan Inverarity
Get a cup of something, take a break from the screen, catch up on emails, or whatever you like...
HR professionals can often be faced with complaints, allegations from whistle-blowers and concerns about breaches of policy, which require investigation. Whilst witness evidence will play one part in any such investigation, with so much activity taking place over instant messaging platforms, text and email, how far can an employer go in securing this material? Does this include personal devices?
Michael O’Doherty, Barrister at Law will discuss:
With Michael O'Doherty, BL
Cyber threats are an ever-present risk for organisations handling personal data, making compliance with GDPR and effective incident response essential. Simon Whittaker, Co-Founder & CEO of Vertical Structure will provide practical guidance on managing cyber security risks, responding to attacks, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
Learning Outcomes:
With Simon Whittaker
Mark is a partner in A&L Goodbody's market-leading Commercial & Technology group. He advises clients on all aspects of technology, IP, data protection and related issues. Mark's practice also involves drafting and negotiating commercial contracts and advising on the IP, technology and data protection aspects of corporate M&A transactions.
Mark is named as a 'Rising star' in Legal 500 2022 for information technology law, as well as being listed as a key lawyer in the data privacy and data protection and the healthcare and life sciences practice areas. Mark is also listed as a 'Rising star' in IPStars 2021.
Duncan Inverarity a partner and Head of A&L Goodbody's Employment Law group and has practiced exclusively in the area of employment law and industrial relations in multiple jurisdictions. Duncan advises public and private sector employers on both contentious and non-contentious matters. He advises Board rooms across Ireland and abroad on strategic and complex employment and industrial relations matters. Duncan also specialises in crisis management for clients and has advised on some of the most high profile corporate issues in Ireland. Duncan regularly appears for clients in the Workplace Relations Commission, the Circuit Court, the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Duncan also acts for partnerships in mediated settlements and in proceedings in the High Court.
Michael is a full-time barrister based in Dublin. He practices in general civil litigation, with a particular expertise in the law of the internet and social media, and is the author of Internet Law, published by Bloomsbury Professional in 2020.
He lectures on Internet Law in the UCD Sutherland School of Law and King's Inns, gives regular talks to legal professionals on the developing law concerning the internet and social media, and helped create the recent “Social Media and the Law” course for the Law Society of Ireland.
He is the co-founder and current chairperson of MIDBA, which runs regular seminars for legal professionals with an interest in media, internet and data protection law.
As well as being involved in ongoing litigation concerning defamation, privacy and data protection, Michael specialises in employment law, and recently co-presented a CPD entitled "Social media posts as grounds for dismissal."
Before being called to the Bar, Michael was the founder and Managing Director of VIP Publishing, Ireland’s largest magazine publishing group, and as a result has a uniquely in-depth and practical knowledge of media and employment law.
Simon has been working in the IT industry for over 20 years, and co-founded Vertical Structure with Marc Dowie in 2006. He has extensive experience helping companies understand how to grapple with the challenge of protecting themselves from threats and helping clients find solutions to their cyber security problems. Simon is a cyber sector expert and his perspective of the industry and guidance is highly sought after.
He is a prolific public speaker. Recent presentations and panel sessions include "Protecting Manufacturing Assets from the increasing cybercrime threat - strategies to minimise cyber-attack", and "Vulnerability reporting - the good, the bad and the ugly" at the ONE Conference 2021 in the Netherlands.
His full bio is available here: https://verticalstructure.com/team-members/simon-whittaker
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