Data Domino Effect: How a Single Missed Data Point Can Trigger Legal and Compliance Fallout

DATE: Thursday, October 16, 2025
TIME: 1:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM CT
In partnership with Exterro
Speakers:
MODERATOR: Rebecca Perry, CIPP/US/G, Managing Director of GTM Strategy & Operations – Privacy & Data Governance Solutions, Exterro
Melissa Powers, CIPP/US, Corporate Attorney, Lewis Rice LLC
Hugo Teufel III, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Chief Privacy Officer, Lumen Technologies
For today’s General Counsel, the stakes have never been higher. Regulatory scrutiny is intensifying, data volumes are exploding, and litigation risks—from subpoenas to eDiscovery requests—are multiplying. It only takes one missed data source, one outdated retention schedule, or one delayed breach response to set off a chain reaction—where a privacy misstep quickly escalates into costly legal, compliance, and reputational crises.
In this session, we’ll examine the Data Domino Effect—how weak data visibility, incomplete data mapping, and fragmented governance can compromise your legal position—and, more importantly, how to prevent it. Legal and privacy experts will share strategies for building defensible, end-to-end data programs that can withstand subpoenas, audits, breaches, and regulatory challenges.
You’ll learn:
- How overlooked or misclassified data can derail DSAR deadlines, weaken subpoena response, and trigger enforcement actions.
- Why defensible data disposition is critical for privacy compliance, reducing eDiscovery burdens, and controlling litigation costs.
- Real-world examples where poor data mapping increased breach exposure, fines, or discovery sanctions.
- How legal, privacy, and IT can align for faster, more defensible incident and subpoena responses.
- Practical steps to unify data inventory and governance to strengthen privilege, defensibility, and regulatory readiness.
Whether you’re navigating complex global regulations, managing cross-border discovery, or aiming to avoid the next privacy fire drill, this session will help you spot—and stop—the first domino before it topples your legal strategy.
Register now to join us live, or to ensure you receive a link to the recorded event should you be unable to attend!
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