Gene Fishel will be speaking on the “Cyber Threats – Are You Prepared?” webinar, being held on March 26.

Join professionals from McGriff, the US Secret Service, Troutman Pepper Locke, and A.B. Data to learn more about fraud and cybercrimes. Organizations of all sizes realize no one is exempt from cyber threats. During this session we will discuss network security, threat intelligence, data protection, and emerging cybersecurity trends.

Join us for the first installment of our series, “Data Brokers Under Fire: Litigation and Compliance Strategies to Help Temper the Flames.” If your company buys, sells, or shares third party data for marketing, analytics, or identity purposes, you may be a “data broker” in the eyes of regulators — even if you don’t think of yourself as one. And even if you’re not, working with data brokers can still create significant compliance and litigation risk. This session will clarify who is a data broker, how companies unintentionally cross the line, and what you can do to manage exposure.

Topics include:

  • Defining the Data Broker Ecosystem
    • How the modern data broker ecosystem works — and why many companies are in it without realizing it.
    • “True” data brokers vs. companies that straddle the line.
    • Why you still need to care if you rely on or partner with data brokers.
  • Regulatory and Compliance Landscape
    • What to do if you are a data broker: registration and core obligations.
    • Practical ways to avoid becoming a data broker and stay on the “other side of the fence.”
    • Key state laws (including New Jersey), B2B data broker issues, and a brief look at the DELETE Act.
  • Litigation and Enforcement Trends
    • Current litigation and regulatory hot spots for data brokers and adjacent businesses.
    • FCRA intersections and exemptions: why companies with significant data are rarely “neither.”
    • Daniel’s Law, misappropriation of likeness cases, CIPA/SIPA trends, and enforcement under general state privacy laws (e.g., Colorado).

As AI continues to drive unprecedented demand for data center capacity, developers, owners, operators, and capital providers must revisit their project delivery, contracting, permitting, and stakeholder strategies. Traditional risk allocation and deal structures are antiquating under energy constraints, interconnection delays, supply chain pressure, and evolving federal and state regulatory frameworks around air, water, and large load power usage.

This three part webinar series brings together Troutman Pepper Locke construction, energy, environmental, and real estate attorneys to explore how these dynamics are reshaping the data center landscape in 2026 and beyond. Each session will provide practical perspectives on how market participants are reallocating risk, structuring contracts, and positioning projects to remain bankable and scalable in a rapidly changing environment.

CLE credit will be available.

Session 1 – Rewriting the Rules: 2026 Data Center Contracting & Risk Allocation for AI-Driven Facilities

Tuesday, March 31 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET | Zoom

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Speakers: Jason Spang, Vaughn Morrison, Carl Bivens, Brandon Lobb
Moderator: Jamey Collidge

As AI-driven workloads push data centers to unprecedented levels of scale and power intensity, traditional construction and real estate risk allocation are being rewritten. Join us for a practical, cross-disciplinary discussion of how operators, contractors, and power providers are reshaping contracts for data center projects — from interconnection and schedule risk to supply chain pressure and innovative, behind-the-meter power solutions.

Key Topics:

  • Power and Grid Risk: How contracts address interconnection delays, power constraints, and “grid risk” across the project stack.
  • Supply Chain and Price Volatility: Tools to manage long-lead equipment, early procurement, tariff developments, and pricing swings while preserving budget certainty.
  • Standards, Compliance, and Liability: Balancing schedule pressure with equipment standards, code compliance, and risk allocation.
  • Construction in Live Facilities: Approaches to outage planning, uptime exposure, and SLAs when building in operating data centers.
  • Hybrid and Behind-the-Meter Power: Contracting for campus, modular, and alternative power solutions while managing interface and performance risk.

Session 2 – Permitting and Regulatory Challenges and Uncertainty

Tuesday, April 21 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET | Zoom

Registration details coming soon.
Click here to add Session 2 to your calendar.

Speakers: Mack McGuffey, Melissa Horne, Carl Bivens, Casey Bell
Moderator: Jamey Collidge

Driven by the rapid expansion of AI and other digital infrastructure, data centers are facing heightened regulatory scrutiny over energy use, emissions, and community effects. This webinar will explore the latest environmental and infrastructure considerations that influence project timelines, siting decisions, and risk allocation in high‑growth markets, including how emerging regulatory frameworks may influence permitting strategies and utility relationships.

Key Topics:

  • Major vs. Minor Permits: Understanding the differences between major and minor air permits, and how those classifications affect project timelines, costs, and flexibility.
  • Temporary Power Options – Turbines vs. Engines: Comparing turbines and reciprocating engines for temporary power, including efficiency, emissions, permitting implications, and deployment speed.
  • Managing Curtailment and Outages: Strategies to address curtailment and power outages, and how these risks influence project design, contracting, and operational planning.
  • Air Quality and Site Selection: How existing local air quality and attainment status should factor into siting decisions, permitting risk, and long-term expansion potential.
  • Air Dispersion Modeling Demystified: What air dispersion modeling is, when it is required, and why its assumptions and results are critical to permitting outcomes and project design.
  • Air Permit Challenges and Project Risk: The likelihood and mechanics of air permit challenges, and how appeals, public comments, and litigation can impact project schedules and stakeholder engagement.

Session 3 – The Owner’s Playbook: Navigating Power, Policy, and Performance in Data Center Development

Thursday, May 14 | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET | Zoom

Registration details coming soon.
Click here to add Session 3 to your calendar.

Speakers: Jason Spang, Matt Dials
Moderator: Jamey Collidge

In a market defined by power constraints, regulatory flux, and rapid technological change, data center owners, operators, and capital providers are rethinking how they structure, finance, and deliver projects. Join us for a candid, owner-focused discussion on how to preserve bankability, manage evolving risks, and negotiate smarter contracts for the next wave of data center development.

Key Topics:

  • Bankability Under Pressure: How owners and investors are underwriting data center projects amid power, interconnection, and permitting uncertainty — and what still counts as “bankable.”
  • Permits, Policy, and Change-in-Law Risk: Practical ways to address permitting delays, new environmental conditions, and change-in-law risk in long-term deals.
  • Coordinating Construction, Procurement, and Capital: Aligning early equipment purchases, modular delivery, and nontraditional payment profiles with lender expectations.
  • Performance Guarantees and Owner-Side Outage Risk: Flowing down lease requirements, defining commissioning and acceptance, and capturing owner/tenant needs in construction contracts.
  •  Portfolio and Site Strategy for the Next Wave of Data Centers: How owners are selecting markets, managing jurisdictional and regulatory differences, planning for future upgrades, and accounting for community impacts and labor availability.
  • Deal Table Pinch Points: Where owners/developers and contractors most often clash on risk allocation — and approaches to closing the gap.

We are pleased to invite you to our next addition of the InsurTech Legal Academy to address the use of captive insurance and reinsurance companies by InsurTechs. We are pleased to have Brady Young, Chief Executive Officer, Strategic Risk Solutions, the world’s largest independent captive manager with offices in multiple countries, joining us on this panel discussion. Captive insurance financing is important yet involves complex issues and careful consideration of those.

Troutman Pepper Locke attorney Lisa Reidy will join the speaker panel for Strafford’s upcoming webinar: Foreign Private Issuers Now Subject to Sec 16(a) Reporting: Compliance Burdens, Timing, Practical Implications.

Benefits:

The panel will explore these and other key considerations:

  • What are the new Section 16(a) reporting obligations for FPIs?
  • Who is exempted from the new reporting requirements?
  • What are the practical implications and next steps for FPIs?
  • What are the consequences of noncompliance?
  • Has the SEC provided any guidance for FPIs regarding these new reporting obligations?

Join Troutman Pepper Locke attorneys Amanda Hassan, Peter Jeydel, and Ryan Last for a webinar discussing how life sciences companies can assess and mitigate risk around cross border distribution arrangements in today’s evolving trade and national security environment. The webinar will cover compliance considerations related to import laws (including tariffs, audits, and labeling), export controls, sanctions, and anti-corruption (FCPA). The discussion will also cover how organizations can adequately vet suppliers, distributors, sub-distributors, agents, etc. and appropriately allocate risk and responsibility.

The training is approved for credit in California, Connecticut (through reciprocity), Illinois, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey (through reciprocity), New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas. Credit for other jurisdictions may be available upon request. For more information, please email CLE Management.

Join Troutman Pepper Locke and CBIZ on February 25 for an hour-long webinar covering AI’s early impact on business.

Learn how artificial intelligence is not only being used in business today, but how it is transforming the status quo. Speakers will share insights into how businesses can and are putting AI to work, the benefits AI can provide, the challenges and risks associated with implementing AI, and how your business can mitigate risks, overcome challenges, and safely harness AI’s potential.

Topics include:

  • How to build lasting, secure AI strategies for your business
  • The most pressing threats and obstacles for AI in 2026
  • What roles only humans can (and should) play alongside AI

With state legislatures reconvening for 2026, numerous states are considering privacy and AI bills on a broad range of topics. In the AI space, these bills cover high-risk activities, chatbots, pricing, disclosures, provenance, employment, and health, among other topics. In the privacy space, these bills cover consumer data privacy, teen’s privacy, biometric privacy, consumer health data privacy, and data brokers. During this webinar, we will provide a high-level overview of the types of bills introduced to date, the states where we are seeing the most activity, and what to expect as the year unfolds.

Program Overview

This fast-paced, three-hour CLE combines three of Stuart Teicher’s signature one-hour programs into a single dynamic experience. It explores how lawyers learn professionalism and ethics from everyday life, real-world misconduct, and even college mascots, focusing on how character, ethical judgment, and professionalism are revealed in the choices lawyers make under pressure and in the public eye.

Topics Include

  • Everyday professionalism lessons from real-life moments and Stuart’s travel photos
  • Integrity, courtesy, civility, and effective communication in routine practice
  • Ethics pitfalls and pressures revealed by true stories of lawyer misconduct
  • Key rules behind “good lawyers gone bad,” including RPC 2.1, 8.4, and 1.16
  • Loyalty, protection, and communication modeled by college mascots
  • Applying RPC 1.4, 1.6, and 1.7 to maintain consistent ethical character and client loyalty

Please join Alison Grounds, David Stauss, Jessica Davis, and Jennifer Doran for a discussion on the ethical and compliant use of Generative AI, including how ethics rules, privacy laws, and court obligations intersect with these tools. The speakers will address real-world sanctions and discovery risks arising from AI-generated content and share strategies to mitigate those risks, including human verification and appropriate workflows. They will also cover court requirements related to generative AI declarations and certifications, client expectations and “no GenAI” directives, and how to manage RFIs and client-facing messaging about AI use.