Program Details
2026-10-19 14:30:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2026-10-19 14:30:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm ESTThis session examines the four state regimes that now govern automated hiring tools and the ways they contradict one another, with a focus on the employer that screens applicants across state lines with a single system. Attorneys will learn which everyday HR tools count as automated decision systems and who bears the compliance duty as between employer and vendor, what an employer must do in Illinois now that the Department of Human Rights has withdrawn the notice rules interpreting HB 3773, how Colorado’s repeal and replacement of its AI Act traded the duty of care and annual impact assessments for notice, explanation, and human review, and why Texas TRAIGA’s intent-only standard produces a different answer than Illinois’ effects standard for the very same screening tool. Attendees will leave with an AI tool inventory, a notice matrix by jurisdiction, vendor contract language on bias testing and data access, and a bias-testing protocol built to be defensible rather than discoverable.
Stephen HayesJack L. Hobaugh Jr. 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm ESTThis session turns from compliance to conflict, working through the federal campaign against state AI laws alongside the private litigation that is proceeding regardless of it. Attorneys will learn what a federal executive order can and cannot do to a state civil rights statute and which of the four state regimes is genuinely vulnerable, how the dormant Commerce Clause and compelled-speech theories hold up against notice and audit mandates, what exposure survives preemption under Title VII, the ADA, and the ADEA, why the court in Mobley v. Workday treated a screening vendor as an agent of the employers using its platform, and how a disparate-impact case built on model output is proven or defeated. Attendees will leave with a preservation plan for inputs, outputs, model versions, and prompts, a privilege architecture for bias audits, and a way to document today’s compliance decisions so they read as reasonable to a court years from now.
Stephen HayesJack L. Hobaugh Jr.Stephen Hayes is a Co-Managing Partner at Relman Colfax. Stephen’s work focuses on nonprofits, large corporations, and governmental entities on a range of civil rights and consumer protection matters, including fair lending, fair housing, and employment discrimination. He has expertise on algorithmic discrimination, including advising on policies and procedures for testing models and strategies across a range of markets. He also led algorithmic discrimination monitorships and testified to Congress about civil rights issues. Stephen previously served in the Legal Division of the CFPB. Stephen is a member of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers and has presented at numerous legal conferences and universities.
Jack Hobaugh combines his 18-year career as a software engineer, in which he designed and built relational databases, with his legal practice to focus on AI law and governance, cybersecurity law, and privacy law. Jack is a certified iapp AI governance professional (AIGP), privacy professional (FIP/CIPT/CIPP/US/E) and ISC2 Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP). Jack is equally at home whiteboarding technical solutions with product engineers, as incident counsel, or providing legal advice to inhouse counsel. Jack specializes in guiding start-up companies through the AI, privacy, and security compliance maze. His compliance focus is guiding products to production environment as opposed to being a naysayer. A guest lecturer and author of four books on cybersecurity law, Jack is sought out counsel for startups, and mergers & acquisitions. Prior to his legal career, Jack was a software engineer with a focus on international IT consulting and telecom (Europe / Middle East / West Africa / Brazil), writing his first artificial intelligence program in 1989 in LISP as part of his MS in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to litigating and prosecuting patents, Jack also served as a patent examiner for the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Stephen Hayes is a Co-Managing Partner at Relman Colfax. Stephen’s work focuses on nonprofits, large corporations, and governmental entities on a range of civil rights and consumer protection matters, including fair lending, fair housing, and employment discrimination. He has expertise on algorithmic discrimination, including advising on policies and procedures for testing models and strategies across a range of markets. He also led algorithmic discrimination monitorships and testified to Congress about civil rights issues. Stephen previously served in the Legal Division of the CFPB. Stephen is a member of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers and has presented at numerous legal conferences and universities.
Jack Hobaugh combines his 18-year career as a software engineer, in which he designed and built relational databases, with his legal practice to focus on AI law and governance, cybersecurity law, and privacy law. Jack is a certified iapp AI governance professional (AIGP), privacy professional (FIP/CIPT/CIPP/US/E) and ISC2 Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP). Jack is equally at home whiteboarding technical solutions with product engineers, as incident counsel, or providing legal advice to inhouse counsel. Jack specializes in guiding start-up companies through the AI, privacy, and security compliance maze. His compliance focus is guiding products to production environment as opposed to being a naysayer. A guest lecturer and author of four books on cybersecurity law, Jack is sought out counsel for startups, and mergers & acquisitions. Prior to his legal career, Jack was a software engineer with a focus on international IT consulting and telecom (Europe / Middle East / West Africa / Brazil), writing his first artificial intelligence program in 1989 in LISP as part of his MS in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to litigating and prosecuting patents, Jack also served as a patent examiner for the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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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