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Security Fatigue and Its Impact on Law Firm Security
People are inherently lazy. After all, why do something today that you can put off until tomorrow? Users hate to do anything that would slow down their access to their computer or data. That means they...
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Interview With Knights CEO David Beech: Alternative Business Structures...
Recently, author Nelson had the pleasure of interviewing David Beech, the CEO of the professional services firm Knights in the UK. David has led the business, originally a law firm, since 2011. His...
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The Real Lesson of the WikiLeaks Vault 7 Document Dump
Some days are just more interesting than others. You could almost hear the mournful wailing of spooks (the CIA kind) as WikiLeaks released thousands of documents describing sophisticated software tools...
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Ransomware: No Honor Among Thieves and More Expensive
The FBI says that ransomware nets cybercriminals $1 billion a year. No wonder so many people want a piece of that pie. Computerworld recently reported that hackers spreading ransomware are getting...
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Can You Trust Your Expert Witnesses With Confidential Data?
Not always. There was a recent case in which confidential data was not, to put it mildly, well handled. The corporate defendant, a mortgage servicer, was accused of violating a consumer’s privacy...
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The Blockbuster That Is Blockchain: What It Means to the Practice of Law
Several years ago, a Canadian attorney and good friend of ours, invested $10,000 in bitcoin. Clearly, he is a lot smarter than us. We can’t even imagine the extent of his profit – several days before...
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A Dozen Disaster Recovery Tips From the ABA Law Practice Division
From co-author Nelson: Normally, I write SLAW columns with Sensei VP John Simek, but in light of the recent and horrific disasters experienced by American law firms, I teamed up with Jim Calloway,...
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What to Do When Your Data Is Breached
“When, not if.” This mantra among cybersecurity experts recognizes the ever-increasing incidence of data breaches. In an address at a major information security conference in 2012, then-director of...
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The Dark Side of Cloud Computing
We have said for many years that the cloud will generally protect a law firm’s data better than the law firm would itself. As more and more law firms adopt Microsoft Office 365, thereby moving to the...
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A View From Virginia: Is It Ethical for Lawyers to Accept Bitcoins and Other...
Bitcoins are digital currency – and yes, lawyers are beginning to accept them from clients. They are also known as virtual currency or cryptocurrency since cryptography is used to control the creation...
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New WPA3 WiFi Standard Released
Well, it’s finally here. In the fall of 2017, a vulnerability in WPA2 wireless encryption was discovered. Known as the Krack Attack, the flaw impacts every implementation of WPA2. The manufacturers...
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The 2017 DLA Piper Breach Revisited
It was more than a year ago that the 3,600-lawyer global megafirm DLA Piper was brought to its knees by a data breach in June of 2017. One of the questions we hear most often when we lecture is, “If...
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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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