National Attorneys Cybersecurity Association, Inc. (“NACABAR.ORG”)
FLORIDA BAR-APPROVED TECHNOLOGY CLE | INTERMEDIARY COURSE
LIVE PRESENTATIONS WITH WEBCAST SCHEDULED AUGUST THROUGH DECEMBER 2026
Live In Person and Live Webcast
Florida Bar Official Approval CLE Credit Hours:
5.0 General CLE Credits, including 5.0 Technology Credits
CLE Overview: Cyber-Threats and Early Detection Practices
Course at a Glance
CLE Credit: 5.0 Technology CLE credits
Format and Level: Live and live cast for the program | Intermediary Course
Date/ Location: Coral Gables, Florida Exact venue and check-in instructions provided upon registration
Provider and Course: NACABAR Provider No. 1077182 | Florida Bar Accredited Course No. [Provided After Completion]
Faculty Speaker: Jay Lewis Farrow | NACABAR Chair, CLE Administrator and Featured Speaker
Why This Course Matters
Legal practice depends on a connected digital trust chain: email, domain records, vendor relays, e-service, court notices, filing receipts, professional directories, MFA recovery, and restricted-access portals. When one link fails, the result may look like an ordinary missed deadline, altered service list, questionable notice, or unexplained access problem.
This course gives legal professionals a practical framework to recognize indicators, verify communications independently, preserve evidence, and escalate appropriately before a digital trust failure becomes a professional crisis.
What Participants Will Learn
- Identify high-risk single points of failure in e-service, portals, domain control, vendor relays, MFA recovery, and professional directories.
- Recognize counterfeit court notices, suspicious receipts, service-list changes, case-number irregularities, and unexpected portal behavior.
- Understand lawyer-facing DNS, MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, relay-path, and adversary-in-the-middle concepts.
- Preserve headers, receipts, PDFs, screenshots, logs, chain-of-custody notes, and independent verification records.
- Build a law-firm incident-response playbook for client protection, communications continuity, and professional obligations.
- Apply Stop – Verify – Preserve – Escalate to court notices, vendor requests, payment instructions, and portal events.
Four-Hour Live Program
240-minute live program | 200 minutes of creditable technology instruction | Opening logistics, breaks, transitions, and administrative closing are non-credit time.
30 minutes | Legal digital trust architecture
Communications, portals, vendors, credentials, and notices as interconnected trust surfaces.
30 minutes | E-service and court-notice authentication
Service-list integrity, filing receipts, case identifiers, false positives, and independent verification.
30 minutes | Email and domain trust
DNS, MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, relay paths, and adversary-in-the-middle concepts for legal professionals.
30 minutes | Restricted-access portals
Account takeover, MFA recovery, token links, service-list manipulation, and portal-state anomalies.
35 minutes | Incident response and evidence preservation
Headers, screenshots, logs, receipts, chain of custody, escalation, and alternate communication channels.
30 minutes | Redacted legal-sector case study
Cyber-to-procedure conversion, communications degradation, counterfeit-notice risk, and preserving the record without overclaiming attribution.
15 minutes | Attorney playbook and Q&A
Stop – Verify – Preserve – Escalate implementation and a practical law-firm checklist.
Who Should Attend
- Florida federal and state judicial officers, including judges, federal magistrate judges, state magistrates, and other judicial hearing officers.
- Judicial law clerks, staff attorneys, clerks of court, deputy clerks, court administrators, records personnel, e-filing or e-service personnel, and court-adjacent agencies.
- Attorneys, law-firm leadership, general counsel, legal operations, litigation-support, e-discovery, risk, compliance, and information-security professionals.
- NACABAR members and members of bar, judicial, legal, cybersecurity, government, and other professional associations.
CLE credit is available only to attendees eligible under applicable accreditation rules. Non-lawyers may attend for professional education.
Participant Materials
60-slide legal-sector cybersecurity reference deck.
Cyber-N.E.T. Forensics October 22, 2025 Executive Summary.
Technical Glossary.
September 8, 2025 Microsoft v. John Does final judgment and permanent injunction.
Court-notice, service-list, email-authentication, evidence-preservation, and response checklists.
Private and Organizational Programs
NACABAR accepts inquiries for private course delivery, executive briefings, legal-sector workshops, and customized Stop – Verify – Preserve – Escalate tabletop exercises addressing court notices, e-service, restricted-access portals, email and domain trust, vendor-payment fraud, and professional-identity risk.
Featured Speaker and Cyber-CLE Course Developer
Jay Lewis Farrow serves as NACABAR Chair, CLE Course Administrator, and Featured Speaker. His work focuses on legal-infrastructure cyber threat intelligence, court and e-filing workflow integrity, email and domain trust, restricted-access portals, professional-identity risk, incident preservation, and practical legal-sector training.
Review Jay Lewis Farrow’s background and CV.
Research and Related Reading
- Justice Denied: Court Digital Systems Failed to Leave an Emergency Access Door for Judges to Review Cybersecurity Emergencies
- Cyber-N.E.T. Forensics Integrated e-Forensic Report
- Cryptographic Cyber-Defense Group Expert Report
- Human Rights Crisis Emerges As Advanced Cyber Attacks Target Individual Legal Professionals
- Civil Cyber-Infrastructure Disruption Litigation: Historical Development, Operational Durability, Adversarial Adaptation, and the Integrity of Trusted Legal-Technical Control Planes
- cAPTure-to-Kill APT: Mapping, Attributing, and Containing an Evolving Threat
Reports are expert work products containing the authors’ findings and conclusions; they are not described as judicial findings unless separately adopted by a court.
Request a Seat or Organizational Presentation
Advance registration is required. Contact NACABAR for seat availability, venue and start-time instructions, accessibility accommodations, or delivery of this course to a court, law firm, legal department, bar association, government or court-adjacent agency, professional organization, or cybersecurity team.
Email: dir.media@nacabar.org
Website: https://nacabar.org
About NACABAR
National Attorneys Cybersecurity Association, Inc. (“NACABAR.ORG”) is a Florida nonprofit education, research, publication, and collaboration platform focused on the cybersecurity risks affecting attorneys, courts, law firms, professional institutions, and court-adjacent organizations.
NACABAR develops continuing education programs, practical training materials, professional commentary, and legal-sector cybersecurity resources designed to help participants recognize emerging threats, verify high-trust communications, preserve suspicious records, strengthen incident-response practices, and maintain continuity when ordinary digital channels become unreliable.
The organization also engages with cybersecurity investigators, technical specialists, associates of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative ecosystem, and other expert groups to exchange information concerning evolving attack patterns, professional-identity risks, court and e-filing vulnerabilities, communications integrity, and the operational and professional-health consequences of sustained cyberattacks.
NACABAR monitors developing court rules, state bar requirements, cybersecurity standards, professional-responsibility guidance, and regulatory trends that affect the use of electronic filing, service, identity credentials, vendor systems, and other trusted legal infrastructure.
Its central objective is to translate complex technical findings into practical legal-sector judgment: what to verify, what to preserve, when to escalate, and how to establish alternate communication pathways before a cyber incident becomes a professional, institutional, or client-protection crisis.
Accreditation and Independence
NACABAR is an independent Florida nonprofit organization and Florida Bar CLE provider. Approval of this course for continuing legal education credit does not constitute endorsement by The Florida Bar of NACABAR, the featured speaker, any report, research finding, organization, or opinion presented in connection with the program.
This course is educational in nature. It does not provide legal advice, legal representation, or case-specific incident-response services.
Do not transmit confidential, privileged, case-specific, or incident-response evidence through an ordinary website form or email. Contact NACABAR first to identify an appropriate communication channel.