Dentons hosted a complimentary informative discussion on establishing priorities and managing budgeting considerations for your legal spend on Tuesday, November 24, 2020.

The impending privacy changes across Canada will almost certainly mean increased compliance costs for businesses, as well as increased risk. Among other things, organizations will likely need to review and revise policies, unbundle consents, explore exceptions to consent, implement mechanisms and controls around new data rights such as data portability and deletion, and hire a privacy officer or significantly expand their role. Expected new enforcement powers at both the federal and provincial levels will mean increased exposure for companies, as well as demands from management and boards to address risk.

Our presenters addressed the following questions:

• How do you prioritize your projects?
• Where should your legal spend go?
• How do you build your business case for budget?
• What resources do you need?

Access the presentation materials.

Speakers

• Sooji Seo - VP Legal, Ethics & Compliance, Chief Privacy Officer, Dell
• Kirsten Thompson - Partner and National Lead of Dentons’ Transformative Technologies and Data Strategy group

Moderator

• David Pickwoad- Dentons Canada's Chief Client Officer

Additional resources

• Watch our recent webinar on Implementing Canada’s proposed new privacy law (CPPA): Lessons learned from the GDPR (December 3, 2020).

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Accreditation

• LSBC: This session is registered for one Substantive Hour with the Law Society of British Columbia.
• LSO: This program is eligible for up to one Substantive Hour with the Law Society of Ontario.
• Barreau du Québec: In our view, this session would meet the CLE requirements of the Barreau du Québec. Please email Annie Girard to receive a confirmation of attendance. 

Questions

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact insession.canada@dentons.com.