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Past Events
Chapter Luncheon

Thursday, April 20, 2006
11:30a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Beckham Grill - Pasadena
77 W. Walnut Street
PASADENA, CA 91103
(626) 796-3399
TOPIC: "Understanding and Complying with Breach Notification Laws"

SPEAKER: Scott M. Giordano, Esq., MBA, MS, CFE, GSEC
Principal, Carson, Huffer & Giordano, LLC

DESCRIPTION OF SPEECH: Mr. Giordano's presentation will describe legal
compliance responsibilities and best practices resulting from data breaches of
personally identifiable information under California law.  Case studies from
ChoicePoint, Card Systems and a variety of medical institutions will be used to
explain the scope of these regulations.

SPEAKER BIO:  B.S., Business Administration (Marketing), cum laude, Long Beach
State University; Juris Doctor & MBA, Santa Clara University; M.S., Economic Crime
Management, Utica College (Syracuse University).

Mr. Giordano spent nearly eight years at the LexisNexis corporation (a division of
publisher Reed-Elsevier) as a consultant and instructor.  There he taught principles
of electronic research to law students and advised private attorneys, corporate
counsel, judges and a variety of law enforcement agencies and corporate security
teams on open-source intelligence (OSI).  He was the founder and team leader of
the Nexis Government Technology Task Force, responsible for technology consulting
both to internal and external customers.  He joined the newly-formed LexisNexis
Risk Solutions Group in March of 2001 as a Risk Management Consultant.  In that
capacity he was responsible for consulting on the company's products and
processes that assist in conducting due diligence, Internet surveillance and
economic crime management.  He has taught, as an adjunct professor, The Law of
the Internet, The Law of Electronic Commerce and Electronic Evidence & Discovery at
Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and Legal Concepts of Criminal Fraud and
Corporate Criminal Liability at Utica College in New York.  He is Carson Huffer’s
expert in electronic due diligence and analysis.

Member Spotlight:  Robert E. Bates, CPA - FraudBaron.com

Featured in the Member Spotlight in April will be: Robert E. Bates,
editor of
FraudBaron.com, the anti-fraud professionals’ source of fraud news.

Robert E. Bates is editor of
FraudBaron.com, the anti-fraud professionals’
source for fraud news.  Readers can subscribe to a free daily e-mail with
each days’ headlines.  Full articles are accessible through the website.
“Don’t waste time searching for news, let
FraudBaron.com do it for you”.

Contact Info for Member Spotlight:

Robert E. Bates, CPA
322 Culver Boulevard #303
Playa del Rey, California 90293
310.266.8918 phone
310.388-0331 fax
rob@rbatescpa.com
www.rbatescpa.com

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