The Honorable Zia Faruqui has been serving as a federal magistrate judge for the District of Columbia since September 2020. During that time, he has presided over hundreds of cases related to the January 6th breach of the U.S. Capitol. Prior to his judicial appointment, Judge Faruqui was a federal prosecutor, first in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri and then in the District of Columbia. Over the span of twelve years of federal service as an ASUA, he prosecuted numerous cases, many of which centered on the nexus between financial crimes and national security. His case work included counter terror-finance actions, including by implementing denial of service attacks against, and site takeovers of, websites used by ISIS and Al Qaeda to collect cryptocurrency. Additionally, he led the takedown of the largest ever darknet site dedicated to child exploitation which was funded by cryptocurrency. Judge Faruqui is a board member for Jobs for Homeless People, a non-profit that provides housing and vocational training to people in the D.C. metropolitan area. He also served as a Muslim-outreach coordinator for the Department of Justice and as an adjunct professor at Harris-Stowe State University where he taught classes on criminal rehabilitation, and Georgetown University where he teaches constitutional law. 

Matthew F. Ferraro was a counsel at WilmerHale, advising clients on matters related to defense and national security, cybersecurity, emerging technologies, and crisis management until late August 2023.  In private practice, Mr. Ferraro counseled clients, wrote, and spoke on artificial intelligence issues and the threat that digital disinformation and deepfakes pose to corporations, brands and markets.  Following his service at WilmerHale, he joined the Department of Homeland Security as Senior Counselor to the Secretary, for Cybersecurity and Emerging Technology.

Brent J. Gurney is a partner at WilmerHale. He is a first-chair trial lawyer with over 30 years of significant jury trial and other court experience in challenging civil and criminal cases throughout the United States. Mr. Gurney’s experience includes a wide variety of high-profile matters involving complex commercial disputes, intellectual property disputes, white collar criminal defense and government investigations into a wide variety of matters, including the False Claims Act, government contracts, health care fraud, conspiracy, wire, and mail fraud. Mr. Gurney is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and Vice Chair of its Complex Litigation Committee. He is regularly listed in Best Lawyers in America for Commercial Litigation and White Collar Criminal Defense and in Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers.

Natalie Li is a senior associate at WilmerHale. She focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on contractual and intellectual property disputes, including copyright, trademark, and trade secret claims. She has represented clients in federal court, state court, and arbitration from a broad range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, technology, education, entertainment, and financial service. She also regularly counsels clients, writes, and speaks on the intersection between copyright and artificial intelligence issues.

• Understand how rapidly evolving deepfake technology can play a role in your cases
• Hear about recent cases where parties have raised the potential of deepfake evidence 
• Be prepared to address allegations of deepfake evidence in court
• Review the relevant rules of ethics and evidence applicable to authenticating evidence 

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• Prosecutors
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• Paralegals

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