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Two Recent ABA Ethics Opinions: More Law Firms Relying on the Cloud
The ABA released ABA Formal Ethics Opinion 482, Ethical Obligations Related to Disasters, on September 19, 2018. The opinion may be found at...
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2018 ABA Legal Technology Survey Highlights
Every year the American Bar Association sends out a survey to tens of thousands of attorneys requesting information about several area. The 2018 survey contained six questionnaires covering the...
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ABA TECHSHOW 2019
As we write this, we are a week out from ABA TECHSHOW 2019, which author Simek had the honor of co-chairing along with our longtime friend Lincoln Mead. There was a lot of conversation before, during...
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Making It Rain: Effective Lawyer Marketing in the Digital Era
“We don’t believe in digital marketing. We believe in marketing in a digital world.” – Clive Sirkin, CMO of Kimberly Clark And a digital world it is. We live in a world where three year olds have their...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation Takes on Online Speech Moderation With TOSsed Out
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced on May 20th that it had launched TOSsed Out, a new iteration of EFF’s continuing work in tracking and documenting the ways that Terms of Service (TOS)...
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Using Multi-Factor Authentication Blocks 99.9% of Account Takeover Attacks
It was big news in late August when Microsoft said that users who enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for their accounts will end up blocking 99.9% of automated attacks. This doesn’t apply just to...
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The ABA Reports on Lawyer Websites and Lawyer Marketing
We always look forward to the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center’s Annual Legal Technology Survey Report on the use of technology in the legal profession. The summary of the “Marketing and...
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The Intersection of Ethics and Well-Being
ABA RESOLUTION 105 The ABA House of Delegates adopted Resolution 105 at the 2018 ABA Midyear Meeting. The resolution supports the goal of reducing mental health and substance use disorders and...
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96 Percent of Deepfake Videos Are Women Engaged in Sexual Acts
We’ve spent a lot of time worrying about the possible effect of deepfake videos on the 2020 election. While that’s a real concern, we were blown away by the stats in a report from Deeptrace Labs. The...
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Double Whammy on Law Firms: COVID-19 and the Troubled Economy
When lawyers turned the calendar page to January 2020, they could not have dreamt of the two-fold nightmare that would descend upon the profession so quickly. A global pandemic and a tanking economy at...
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Ten Cybersecurity Lessons Learned About Working From Home
The year 2020 will be remembered as the year that lawyers were catapulted into the future. As a result of COVID-19, the majority of law firms suddenly found themselves thrust into a work-from-home...
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What Kind of Fool Am I (That Doesn’t Use MFA)?
Those of you of a certain age will remember the song “What Kind of Fool Am I?” That song was about love, but for Pete’s sake, why is it that some lawyers keep insisting that they won’t use MFA...
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Goodbye VPNs – Hello Zero Trust Network Access
Virtual private networks (VPN) are very standard these days. But they are riddled with vulnerabilities – and subject to a “man in the middle attack.” They have wreaked havoc in 2020 in a work-from-home...
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What’s on the Horizon for Law Firms in 2021?
Jim Calloway, Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Management Program, frequently speaks with us about the future of law. Recently, Jim recorded a Legal Talk Network podcast with Sharon which...
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Lawyers Moving Past Passwords
Passwords have been around since the early days of mainframe computing. Believe it or not, passwords were not originally designed to prove identity. The betting money is that computer passwords first...
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Small and Midsized Law Firms Slammed by Ransomware
A Warning for Law Firms The first of the quarterly 2021 surveys appeared during April – and the news isn’t good for small and midsized law firms. Note these ominous words from Coveware, a highly...
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Lawyers Addicted to Technology: Cutting the Cord
Not exactly a new subject, is it? And yet the pandemic has brought a new focus to technology addiction as way too many lawyers worked longer hours at home than they ever did at the office, their...
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Top 10 Tips: Effective Cybersecurity Awareness Training for Law Firm Employees
We can speak authoritatively about cybersecurity awareness for law firm employees because we give this training so often. Here are some of our tips to ensure you maximize the effectiveness of your...
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Smartphone Phishing Attacks Escalate, Bedeviling Law Firms
Just When You Thought You Had Perfected Your Cybersecurity Training for Law Firm Employees . . . Time to think again. It’s no secret that cybercriminals have increased all kinds of phishing activity...
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Goat Entrails and Tea Leaves: Predicting the Future of Law Practice
The Battle Royal: Hybrid or Back to the Office? You might as well resort to reading goat entrails and tea leaves to predict the future of law practice, because it is woefully unclear what law firms...
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What Do Women Lawyers Really Want?
Why We Wrote This Article The President of Sensei Enterprises, co-author Sharon Nelson, is a woman. She is involved with multiple groups and associations of women lawyers. For two years, she has been...
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Physical Security in a Transformed World
It has been several years since we wrote on the topic of physical security, but it seems like a good topic now that so many law firms are changing how lawyers work. While there are some law firms...
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The Danger of Unstructured Data in Law Firms
Unstructured Data – A Problem That’s Been Around for a Long Time Recently, authors Simek and Nelson had the opportunity to talk to guest Peter Baumann on their Legal Talk Network Digital Detectives...
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ILTACON 2022: the Legal Tech Conference Roars Back
Not since the pandemic began have we seen a live legal tech conference with more than 3000 people onsite, the third largest ILTACON ever. There was no virtual option. So back they came in droves,...
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Interview With Clio’s “Lawyer in Residence” Joshua Lenon
Clio’s “Lawyer in Residence” Delighted to be granted an interview with Clio’s “Lawyer in Residence” Joshua Lenon, co-author Sharon Nelson asked Lenon to describe his duties as his title seemed a bit...
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Digital Detoxing: A Lawyer’s Best Friend
The Authors Are Detox Veterans While that heading might seem a little silly, it is absolutely true that fighting digital addiction is a true battle. It took us a long time to realize how deep our...
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Law Firms Cringe, but Bow to the Need for Zero Trust Architecture
Zero Trust Architecture simplified Lawyers have a “deer in the headlights” look whenever we talk about Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) – and we do understand that look. ZTA is complicated and often...
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Law Firm Employees Allegedly Misbehaving Make Headlines
You don’t have to go back far in history to read about the many misbehaviors of law firm employees. Whether the media stories concern the alleged actions of partners, associates or support personnel,...
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Lawyers Become Poster Children for Failure to Verify ChatGPT Information
When Everyone in the Legal World Knows Your Name We are sure that New York lawyers Steven Schwartz and Peter LoDuca are not especially happy to have become famous by way of failing to vet the accuracy...
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Cyberinsurance: More Expensive, Less Coverage
Cyberinsurance Sticker Shock We’ve been watching cyberinsurance get more and more expensive over the years. Perhaps in the wake of the extraordinary number of data breaches in 2023 (both small and...
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