In this timely and pertinent episode of The Litigator’s Edge, host Aniket Sawant sits down with Jacqueline Goralczyk, a modern-day crisis counsel who guides organizations through their worst digital nightmares. Jacqueline shares her fascinating pivot from running a real estate title agency to becoming a leading voice in cybersecurity law, driven by the sudden explosion of wire fraud in 2017.

Jacqueline breaks down her area of practice into two distinct zones: "Peacetime" governance and "Wartime" incident response. She provides a front-line look at the AI arms race, explaining how threat actors now use technology to create flawless phishing emails and deepfakes — and why companies must deploy "defensive AI" to survive. She offers strategic advice on the critical hours and days following a data breach, warning why senior leadership cannot simply delegate crisis management to IT.

Beyond the immediate crisis, Jacqueline offers a sober analysis of the fragmented U.S. regulatory landscape, predicting that AI regulation will likely mirror the complex, 50-state patchwork of data breach laws rather than a federal standard. She also explores the vital, often overlooked collaboration required between incident response teams and litigators to mitigate the growing threat of class action lawsuits following an incident.