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Do You Know What to Do if You or a Client are Attacked on the Web?
By Nerino Petro at 29 July, 2010, 10:09 am
If you’ve ever had to try and get someone who is posting your materials on their site without permissioin or someone who has posted malicious information on the web dealt with, it can be a confusing and daunting task. The Law Technology News Daily alert email has a link to How to Protect Client Reputation From Web Attacks which provides a nice overview of things to do including the absolute need to use the complaint procedure of the hosting site.
Read More >>Firms are moving to the Cloud
By Nerino Petro at 4 May, 2010, 11:24 am
Interesting interview over at the InsideLegal blog with Eric Hunter, Director of Knowledge Management for Bradford & Barthel LLP which is based in California and has 73 attorneys and 207 employees. Hunter details the firms 24 month plan to move away from internal applications and move everything over to the Cloud including replacing MS Office with Google Apps. Read the entire interview here. Hat tip to JoAnna Forshee for letting me know about this post.
Read More >>Young Lawyers and Technology: A Paradigm Shift?
By Nerino Petro at 15 April, 2010, 12:23 pm
To stay relevant, older attorneys and those not as comfortable with technology must overcome their fears and adapt to the new reality lest they go the way of the buggy whip and horse drawn carriage.
Read More >>Danger Will Robinson: One Email Causes Big Headache for a Small Law Firm
By Nerino Petro at 18 March, 2010, 11:49 am
For everyone who remembers t he 1960′s SciFi series Lost in Space, the events that recently hit Crosby Higgins LLP would be the point in the show where the robot says Danger, Will Robinson, danger.. Every lawyer should read One Very Small Law Firm; One Extremely Large Computer Virus found at the Wall Street Journal Law Blog. In his post, author Ashby Jones details how this latest scam impacted this firm and the stress placed on it’s staff.
Read More >>Do You Know What Free Legal Research Your State Bar Offers?
By Nerino Petro at 10 March, 2010, 4:22 pm
The folks over at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog (Toby Brown, Lisa Salazar & Greg Lambert) have a post putting up an interactive map of the US that shows which legal research product the bar associations of each state provides to its members. The map is from the Many Eyes site which I hadn’t encountered before but is pretty interesting.
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