Robert J. Munnelly, Jr. Authors Chapter for MCLE's Hanging Your Shingle

 
 

February 8, 2018 - Boston, MA
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Davis Malm shareholder Robert J. Munnelly, Jr., authored a chapter in the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education’s (MCLE) Hanging Your Shingle: Starting and Operating a Solo or Small Firm Practice. The chapter, “Data Security,” provides guidance on the data security legal requirements that affect small practices, including breach notifications, risk assessment, encryption, and password suggestions. The chapter also discusses how to develop and implement a Written Information Security Plan (WISP).

Mr. Munnelly practices in the regulatory area at Davis Malm. His data security and information privacy practice focuses on advising and working with companies to develop written plans, improve security-related policies, support compliance training, and respond to potential security breaches. He also has extensive experience with legal and regulatory issues faced by energy, cable television, and telecommunications companies in New England and nationally, as well as other regulated industries.

MCLE is the Massachusetts legal community's premier provider of hands-on educational programs and reference materials. MCLE aims to raise the caliber of lawyers' professional and ethical service to their clients and communities, by providing comprehensive and practical continuing legal education of the highest quality. Massachusetts Employment Law helps to sort through the many statutes and regulations—both state and federal—that provide causes of action and defenses to volatile workplace disputes.

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The chapter, Data Security, provides guidance on the data security legal requirements that affect small practices, including breach notifications, risk assessment, encryption, and password suggestions. The chapter also discusses how to develop and implement a Written Information Security Plan (WISP).