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Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack: Breach Response, Cyber Insurance, and Post-Incident Remediation Strategy

2026-05-29 13:00:00

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Master ransomware response from prevention through remediation. Learn to navigate cyber insurance, avoid costly breach-response mistakes, and build enterprise risk strategies that protect clients from financial, legal, and reputational fallout.

2026-05-29 13:00:00

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Master ransomware response from prevention through remediation. Learn to navigate cyber insurance, avoid costly breach-response mistakes, and build enterprise risk strategies that protect clients from financial, legal, and reputational fallout.

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Key topics that will be covered

What will you learn

Attorneys will learn in-depth, real-world insights on ransomware attacks, business email compromises, cyber extortion, and data breaches from cybersecurity, cyber insurance, and cyber/privacy law leaders.

What will you gain

They will gain insight into implementing enterprise-wide risk management strategies to prevent and mitigate catastrophic financial, legal, and reputational harms before, during, and after a cyber-attack.

Industry panel
Cybersecurity, cyber insurance, and cyber/privacy law leaders share real-world experience.
Ransomware attacks
Panelists provide in-depth insight into ransomware attack dynamics and response.
Email compromise
Real-world experience addressing business email compromise incidents affecting organizations.
Cyber extortion
Panelists examine cyber extortion threats and organizational response considerations.
Risk strategy
Implementing enterprise-wide risk management to prevent and mitigate cyber-attack harms.
Harm mitigation
Addressing financial, legal, and reputational harms before, during, and after attacks.

What will you learn

Attorneys will learn in-depth, real-world insights on ransomware attacks, business email compromises, cyber extortion, and data breaches from cybersecurity, cyber insurance, and cyber/privacy law leaders.

What will you gain

They will gain insight into implementing enterprise-wide risk management strategies to prevent and mitigate catastrophic financial, legal, and reputational harms before, during, and after a cyber-attack.

Agenda

SESSION 1

Current Threat Landscape and Cyber Insurance Navigation

SESSION 2

Proactive Measures Before a Breach Occurs

SESSION 3

Avoiding Common Mistakes During Breach Response

SESSION 4

Remediation And Prevention of Future Breaches

clock 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST

Current Threat Landscape and Cyber Insurance Navigation

Spencer S. Pollock

McDonald Hopkins LLC

Kelly Campbell

McDonald Hopkins LLC

Examine today’s evolving ransomware, business email compromise, and data breach threats alongside emerging legal issues, while learning how to evaluate cyber insurance policies, identify coverage gaps, and secure adequate protection for organizational clients.

Spencer S. Pollock

McDonald Hopkins LLC

Kelly Campbell

McDonald Hopkins LLC

clock 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm EST

Proactive Measures Before a Breach Occurs

Spencer S. Pollock

McDonald Hopkins LLC

Kelly Campbell

McDonald Hopkins LLC

Discover essential preventive strategies organizations must implement before a cyber-attack strikes, including enterprise-wide risk management frameworks, incident response planning, employee training protocols, and vendor management practices that minimize exposure and strengthen defenses.

Spencer S. Pollock

McDonald Hopkins LLC

Kelly Campbell

McDonald Hopkins LLC

clock 2:10 pm - 2:40 pm EST

Avoiding Common Mistakes During Breach Response

Spencer S. Pollock

McDonald Hopkins LLC

Kelly Campbell

McDonald Hopkins LLC

Identify critical errors organizations frequently make when responding to active cyber incidents, and learn proven protocols for preserving privilege, coordinating with law enforcement, managing ransom negotiations, and meeting notification obligations under applicable state and federal regulations.

Spencer S. Pollock

McDonald Hopkins LLC

Kelly Campbell

McDonald Hopkins LLC

clock 2:40 pm - 3:10 pm EST

Remediation And Prevention of Future Breaches

Spencer S. Pollock

McDonald Hopkins LLC

Kelly Campbell

McDonald Hopkins LLC

Master post-incident remediation steps that transform breach experiences into stronger security postures, including forensic investigation protocols, system hardening, policy revisions, and long-term strategies designed to prevent recurring attacks and protect against future cyber threats.

Spencer S. Pollock

McDonald Hopkins LLC

Kelly Campbell

McDonald Hopkins LLC

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Joe Ervin

The Law Firm for Truck Safety, LLP
A Partner at The Law Firm for Truck Safety. He focuses exclusively on cases involving commercial motor vehicle crashes and wrongful death. Joe also holds a valid class “A” commercial driver’s license with endorsements for double/triple trailers and tankers.

Education & Credentials

A 2013 graduate of the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College in Dubois, Wyoming, Joe is rated AV Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell — the highest peer rating for exceptional legal ability and ethics. He is among the first nine attorneys nationwide to earn board certification in Truck Accident Law from the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

Recognition & Leadership

Joe received the Roadway Safety Award from the American Association for Justice (AAJ) for his commitment to improving highway safety.
 He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys (ATAA) Safety Committee, advocating for higher safety standards across the trucking industry.

Professional Involvement

Joe serves on the faculty of the AAJ Advanced Trial Advocacy College: Litigating Truck Collision Cases (2015 & 2024).
 He is an active member of AAJ’s Trucking Litigation Group and sits on the Board of Regents for the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys.

Experience

Joe frequently consults and co-counsels on complex commercial truck cases. His proven track record includes numerous successful trials against motor carriers and truck leasing companies — delivering justice for victims of commercial vehicle accidents.

Kevin Foley

Reminger Co
A Partner at The Law Firm for Truck Safety. He focuses exclusively on cases involving commercial motor vehicle crashes and wrongful death. Joe also holds a valid class “A” commercial driver’s license with endorsements for double/triple trailers and tankers.

Education & Credentials

A 2013 graduate of the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College in Dubois, Wyoming, Joe is rated AV Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell — the highest peer rating for exceptional legal ability and ethics. He is among the first nine attorneys nationwide to earn board certification in Truck Accident Law from the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

Recognition & Leadership

Joe received the Roadway Safety Award from the American Association for Justice (AAJ) for his commitment to improving highway safety.
 He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys (ATAA) Safety Committee, advocating for higher safety standards across the trucking industry.

Professional Involvement

Joe serves on the faculty of the AAJ Advanced Trial Advocacy College: Litigating Truck Collision Cases (2015 & 2024).
 He is an active member of AAJ’s Trucking Litigation Group and sits on the Board of Regents for the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys.

Experience

Joe frequently consults and co-counsels on complex commercial truck cases. His proven track record includes numerous successful trials against motor carriers and truck leasing companies — delivering justice for victims of commercial vehicle accidents.

Grant H. Lawson

The Law Firm for Truck Safety, LLP
A Partner at The Law Firm for Truck Safety. He focuses exclusively on cases involving commercial motor vehicle crashes and wrongful death. Joe also holds a valid class “A” commercial driver’s license with endorsements for double/triple trailers and tankers.

Education & Credentials

A 2013 graduate of the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College in Dubois, Wyoming, Joe is rated AV Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell — the highest peer rating for exceptional legal ability and ethics. He is among the first nine attorneys nationwide to earn board certification in Truck Accident Law from the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

Recognition & Leadership

Joe received the Roadway Safety Award from the American Association for Justice (AAJ) for his commitment to improving highway safety.
 He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys (ATAA) Safety Committee, advocating for higher safety standards across the trucking industry.

Professional Involvement

Joe serves on the faculty of the AAJ Advanced Trial Advocacy College: Litigating Truck Collision Cases (2015 & 2024).
 He is an active member of AAJ’s Trucking Litigation Group and sits on the Board of Regents for the Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys.

Experience

Joe frequently consults and co-counsels on complex commercial truck cases. His proven track record includes numerous successful trials against motor carriers and truck leasing companies — delivering justice for victims of commercial vehicle accidents.

Spencer S. Pollock

McDonald Hopkins LLC

Kelly Campbell

McDonald Hopkins LLC

Spencer S. Pollock

McDonald Hopkins LLC

Spencer Pollock is an award-winning data privacy and cybersecurity attorney who serves as a Member of McDonald Hopkins’ national Data Privacy and Cybersecurity team. Based in Baltimore, he specializes in incident response and privacy consulting, having handled hundreds of cyber incidents and data breaches for clients across financial services, healthcare, insurance, education, and managed service provider industries.

Education & Credentials

Pollock earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 2012 and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Sewanee: The University of the South. He is admitted to practice in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. He holds two leading privacy credentials from the International Association of Privacy Professionals — Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) — and is a Certified Mediator.

Recognition & Leadership

Pollock has been recognized as a Maryland Super Lawyers Rising Star for six consecutive years (2020–2025) and has been consistently ranked in Business Litigation. He hosts the Cyber Law Revolution podcast, which was named to FeedSpot's Top 10 Breach Podcasts list in 2025 and recently released its milestone 100th episode. In 2022, he anchored McDonald Hopkins' expansion into Maryland by launching the firm's Baltimore office. He is frequently called upon for national legal and business commentary on cybersecurity incidents, and has been featured or quoted in The American Lawyer, CBS News Baltimore (WJZ-TV), WBAL, Fox 45, and the Cyber Insurance Leaders podcast.

Professional Involvement

Pollock is an active member of the Maryland State Bar Association, where he serves on the Cybersecurity Task Force, and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). He is a prolific author and speaker, regularly presenting at industry programs including NetDiligence Cyber Risk Summits, IT Nation Connect and IT Nation Secure, the ABA TIPS Section Conference, the GTIA Cybersecurity Conference, and regional CPCU, AFP, and URMIA chapters nationwide. He has authored numerous articles on HIPAA compliance, ransomware defense, state privacy legislation, AI governance, and forensic report privilege, and delivers CLE programs through Quimbee, Celesq, HalfMoon Education, and CeriFi.

Experience

With more than a decade of legal practice, Pollock has guided clients through ransomware attacks, business email compromises, cyber extortion events, vendor-caused breaches, and multi-state notification obligations, while defending them in regulatory investigations before state attorneys general, HHS OCR, and NYDFS. His practice spans the full lifecycle of cyber risk management — pre-breach readiness, incident response, forensic coordination, ransom negotiation strategy, notification compliance under state, federal, and international laws, and post-breach remediation and litigation defense. He also advises C-Suites and boards on enterprise-wide risk management, cyber insurance procurement and claims, vendor due diligence, and AI governance. Before joining McDonald Hopkins in 2022, Pollock practiced at Whiteford, Taylor & Preston and Niles, Barton & Wilmer, where he built a substantial civil trial practice with an 85% win rate as lead counsel in more than 50 jury trials.

Spencer S. Pollock

McDonald Hopkins LLC

Spencer Pollock is an award-winning data privacy and cybersecurity attorney who serves as a Member of McDonald Hopkins’ national Data Privacy and Cybersecurity team. Based in Baltimore, he specializes in incident response and privacy consulting, having handled hundreds of cyber incidents and data breaches for clients across financial services, healthcare, insurance, education, and managed service provider industries.

Education & Credentials

Pollock earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 2012 and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Sewanee: The University of the South. He is admitted to practice in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. He holds two leading privacy credentials from the International Association of Privacy Professionals — Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) — and is a Certified Mediator.

Recognition & Leadership

Pollock has been recognized as a Maryland Super Lawyers Rising Star for six consecutive years (2020–2025) and has been consistently ranked in Business Litigation. He hosts the Cyber Law Revolution podcast, which was named to FeedSpot's Top 10 Breach Podcasts list in 2025 and recently released its milestone 100th episode. In 2022, he anchored McDonald Hopkins' expansion into Maryland by launching the firm's Baltimore office. He is frequently called upon for national legal and business commentary on cybersecurity incidents, and has been featured or quoted in The American Lawyer, CBS News Baltimore (WJZ-TV), WBAL, Fox 45, and the Cyber Insurance Leaders podcast.

Professional Involvement

Pollock is an active member of the Maryland State Bar Association, where he serves on the Cybersecurity Task Force, and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). He is a prolific author and speaker, regularly presenting at industry programs including NetDiligence Cyber Risk Summits, IT Nation Connect and IT Nation Secure, the ABA TIPS Section Conference, the GTIA Cybersecurity Conference, and regional CPCU, AFP, and URMIA chapters nationwide. He has authored numerous articles on HIPAA compliance, ransomware defense, state privacy legislation, AI governance, and forensic report privilege, and delivers CLE programs through Quimbee, Celesq, HalfMoon Education, and CeriFi.

Experience

With more than a decade of legal practice, Pollock has guided clients through ransomware attacks, business email compromises, cyber extortion events, vendor-caused breaches, and multi-state notification obligations, while defending them in regulatory investigations before state attorneys general, HHS OCR, and NYDFS. His practice spans the full lifecycle of cyber risk management — pre-breach readiness, incident response, forensic coordination, ransom negotiation strategy, notification compliance under state, federal, and international laws, and post-breach remediation and litigation defense. He also advises C-Suites and boards on enterprise-wide risk management, cyber insurance procurement and claims, vendor due diligence, and AI governance. Before joining McDonald Hopkins in 2022, Pollock practiced at Whiteford, Taylor & Preston and Niles, Barton & Wilmer, where he built a substantial civil trial practice with an 85% win rate as lead counsel in more than 50 jury trials.

Kelly Campbell

McDonald Hopkins LLC

Kelly Campbell is Counsel on McDonald Hopkins’ national Data Privacy and Cybersecurity team, based in the firm’s Baltimore office. She advises clients across a wide variety of industries on addressing data privacy and cybersecurity incidents in compliance with state, federal, and international laws, guiding them through investigation, messaging and public communications, breach notification obligations, post-breach response, and proactive pre-breach services designed to protect personal, sensitive, and confidential information.

Education & Credentials

Campbell earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the University of Baltimore Law Review. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations from the University of South Carolina. She is admitted to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia, as well as before the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) recognizes Campbell as a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US).

Recognition & Leadership

Campbell was selected to the 2026 Maryland Super Lawyers Rising Stars list, and in 2024 she was named among the Living Classrooms Foundation's Rising Stars by the Baltimore Business Journal, which recognizes accomplished young professionals making meaningful contributions to the Baltimore community. In 2022, she helped launch McDonald Hopkins' new Baltimore office as a founding attorney of the firm's Maryland presence, extending the national Data Privacy and Cybersecurity practice into the Baltimore–D.C. corridor.

Professional Involvement

Campbell is an active member of the Maryland State Bar Association's Young Lawyers Section, the Federal Bar Association, the Baltimore City Bar Association, and the IAPP. She is a frequent author and speaker on data privacy and cybersecurity topics, with recent presentations including "Cybersecurity for Solos – Defending Your Firm" (2025), "Legislative and Regulatory Update" at the Stronger Conference 2024, "Cyber & Privacy Headaches" at the Mid-Atlantic AFP Treasury and Financial Forum, "The Cyber Arms Race" at the URMIA Annual Conference, and "Insurance Data Security Model Laws" at the Big I Maryland Annual Conference. She has authored articles on California's data breach notification law, MSP liability, Washington's My Health My Data Act, and state-level ransomware legislation, and has been quoted in Privacy Daily on multi-state notification deadlines. She is passionate about providing equitable education and opportunities to students throughout her community.

Experience

With experience spanning the full lifecycle of cyber incident response, Campbell has guided clients through ransomware attacks, business email compromises, vendor-caused breaches, and complex multi-state notification obligations under evolving state, federal, and international privacy regimes. Her pre-breach work includes policy development, vendor due diligence, employee training, and building incident response plans designed to minimize risk and strengthen compliance posture. In addition to her data privacy and cybersecurity practice, Campbell maintains an active complex commercial litigation practice, representing clients in state and federal courts. Before joining McDonald Hopkins in 2022, she practiced at Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP in Baltimore, where she began focusing on data security and cybersecurity matters and co-authored published guidance on ransomware and insider threats.

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Attorneys steward privileged client data, counsel clients through breach response and notification obligations, and litigate cyber incidents, making fluency in ransomware and breach dynamics essential to competent, ethical practice.
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Ransomware was present in 44% of all confirmed data breaches in the 2025 Verizon DBIR, a 37% year-over-year surge, and appeared in 88% of breaches at small and mid-sized businesses that make up most law firms’ client bases.
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U.S. businesses reported $2.77 billion in adjusted business email compromise losses across 21,442 complaints to the FBI, part of a record $16.6 billion in total internet-crime losses, a direct threat to law firm trust accounts and client wire transfers.
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Plaintiffs filed approximately 1,822 data privacy class actions in 2025, averaging more than seven new filings every business day, making data-breach litigation one of the fastest-expanding areas of complex civil practice.
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Cyber insurance payouts covered just 32% of total incident costs, while the average incident cost for small-to-mid-sized businesses reached $264,000, underscoring the coverage gap attorneys must flag when advising clients.

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