Security

Ransomware Can Destroy Your Law Firm: How to protect your clients and data

 

Gone are the days when a regular backup will cover your firm’s files and protect sensitive data and clients’ privacy.

Hosting is No Longer Enough for Serious Law Firms

 

Any law firm succeeding online needs to be expanding and improving its website regularly.

Data Breaches: Redefining Best Practices

 

Another day, another infiltration. In 2014, more than 700 data breaches were reported across businesses, governments, and educational and financial institutions. The technology to perform attacks has become more ubiquitous and the defenses currently in place are less effective than before. In response, law firms must evaluate their own infrastructures and make the appropriate changes…

Data Breach: Would You Be Covered If It Happened to You?

 

The true story of a firm that said, “This will never happen to us.” Sometimes you get the feeling; you know the one. Something is wrong, but you can’t put your finger on it. Your first call of the day was from one of your biggest clients, asking if you had added a charge to…

Client Portals: An Efficient, Secure Doorway for Communication

  

As the information age marches ahead, bringing ever-advanced forms of technology, law firms have started to adopt the various business-to-client pathways the era has developed. However, with a more accessible communication and marketing environment have come concerns over privacy and security. It is within that context that electronic gateways known as “client portals” have come…

Internet Express Lanes: Who Pays the Toll?

 

Major Internet service providers are lobbying to overturn FCC rules which prevent discrimination of traffic across the internet. Their intentions are to charge companies and, possibly, end users for priority access to popular services such as Facebook or YouTube. The debate on whether some 1s and 0s are worth more than others will come down…

Digital Convergence: From Maybe to Mandatory

  

Maintaining a healthy level of interaction with your clients is almost as important as acquiring new ones. The cloud is the new reality In previous eras of computing, running proprietary software on office workstations was the only way to get things done. License keys had to be bought and managed, computers had to be loaded…

Tackling E-Discovery: Problems, Trends and Solutions

  

A 2011 report by Maura Grossman and Gordon Cormack showed technology-assisted review to be 50 times more efficient than manual review at that time. Adoption of e-discovery technology has grown since and continues to raise new issues and challenges for attorneys wishing to fulfill their obligations under the law. Electronic discovery (commonly called “e-discovery”) refers…

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