Program Details
2026-11-03 12:00:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2026-11-03 12:00:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ESTThis session maps the liability landscape for algorithmic decision systems outside employment. Attorneys will learn how the disparate impact framework applies to models under the Fair Housing Act, ECOA and Regulation B, and the state statutes reaching insurance and consumer scoring, including the burden-shifting structure, the business-justification defense, and the less-discriminatory-alternative battleground. The session examines what Louis v. SafeRent Solutions established about vendor exposure for tenant-screening models, the adverse action notice obligations that apply when a model makes or informs the decision, and the state insurance rules requiring insurers to test algorithms and external data for unfair discrimination. Attendees will leave with a practical approach to allocating model risk by contract, handling the discovery fight over source code and training data, and counseling clients who license third-party scores they cannot see inside.
Sacha B. Markano-Stark 1:10 pm - 2:10 pm ESTThis session goes inside the model to show how algorithmic fairness is measured, attacked, and defended. Attorneys will learn what adverse impact ratios, calibration, and error-rate disparities actually measure and where they conflict, how disparate impact testing is run in practice, including proxy analysis when protected-class data is unavailable, and how less discriminatory alternative searches are used by plaintiffs, regulators, and defendants. The session closes with the governance side: model documentation, independent testing, audits and monitorships, and remediation when a test finds a problem. Attendees will leave knowing how to structure model testing under privilege, translate quantitative evidence for judges and juries, and assemble a model file that holds up when the regulator or the plaintiff’s expert comes calling.
Eric P. SublettEric P. Sublett is a Partner at Relman Colfax PLLC, where he has practiced in the firm’s civil rights counseling group since 2012. He primarily counsels financial institutions on best practices for fair lending compliance, and much of his work addresses algorithmic fairness and the discrimination risk posed by statistical and machine learning models. He helps clients identify and reduce those risks in traditional lending as well as in the financial technology and online platform settings where they increasingly arise. He is especially well suited to this program: he has worked on the firm’s independent fair lending monitorship of Upstart Network’s lending model and on independent civil rights audits, bringing a hands-on view of how a model is tested, documented, and held accountable.
Sacha B. Markano-Stark is Counsel at Relman Colfax PLLC, which she joined in 2021, and she practices in both the firm’s civil rights counseling and litigation groups. She advises financial institutions and other organizations on compliance and best practices in fair housing, fair lending, and fair banking. Her counseling also covers tech bias, appraisal-related issues, financial equity, and affirmative lending programs, while her litigation work challenges redlining, appraisal discrimination, and other discriminatory practices. She is especially well suited to this program: she handles Fair Housing Act and ECOA matters on both the compliance and litigation side and has presented on algorithmic bias in housing-related transactions, bringing both a counseling perspective and a courtroom view of how discrimination claims against a model are built.
Eric P. Sublett is a Partner at Relman Colfax PLLC, where he has practiced in the firm’s civil rights counseling group since 2012. He primarily counsels financial institutions on best practices for fair lending compliance, and much of his work addresses algorithmic fairness and the discrimination risk posed by statistical and machine learning models. He helps clients identify and reduce those risks in traditional lending as well as in the financial technology and online platform settings where they increasingly arise. He is especially well suited to this program: he has worked on the firm’s independent fair lending monitorship of Upstart Network’s lending model and on independent civil rights audits, bringing a hands-on view of how a model is tested, documented, and held accountable.
Sacha B. Markano-Stark is Counsel at Relman Colfax PLLC, which she joined in 2021, and she practices in both the firm’s civil rights counseling and litigation groups. She advises financial institutions and other organizations on compliance and best practices in fair housing, fair lending, and fair banking. Her counseling also covers tech bias, appraisal-related issues, financial equity, and affirmative lending programs, while her litigation work challenges redlining, appraisal discrimination, and other discriminatory practices. She is especially well suited to this program: she handles Fair Housing Act and ECOA matters on both the compliance and litigation side and has presented on algorithmic bias in housing-related transactions, bringing both a counseling perspective and a courtroom view of how discrimination claims against a model are built.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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