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6 Cybersecurity Tips for Legal Practices
Cybersecurity is essential for lawyers who have ethics requirements to protect their client’s personal and confidential data. Data breaches or losses can cost lawyers both monetarily and career-wise. Securing data is imperative in companies with case sensitive information, and certain cybersecurity tips can help lawyers protect their data and networks.
Access control
Access control is critical when you deal with as much sensitive and confidential information as lawyers on a daily basis. If the wrong person gets hold of information, it can affect the outcome Read more…
5 Ways to Promote Your Legal Practice on LinkedIn
LinkedIn is the best marketing channel nobody’s using. Scratch that: it’s the best marketing channel almost nobody’s using. The best marketers in the world spend about 7 hours a week on LinkedIn. What does that tell you?
It should tell you that this is a channel that’s worth looking at hard. If the best marketers worldwide are so interested, why isn’t LinkedIn flooded with super-active users? Well, mainly because most people who aren’t marketers don’t know how to Read more…
5 Ways Attorneys can Boost Productivity with Microsoft Office 365
Just like every industry have its own set of rules; every industry also has different needs. It is similar to that an ice cream seller would not like to have a heating furnace in his store. Same goes with the industries, say the law, as it is totally different from any other industry existing at present. Attorneys have to keep their data secured and shared efficiently.
To cater their special needs, Microsoft has come forward with its all new product, Matter Center for attorneys. This software is developed to improve the productivity of in-house counsels and law professionals. The legal companies Read more…
Why Law Firms Need Outsourced IT
If you feel that locking your car system in public places is necessary, then you must consider securing the information stored on your computer systems. And if you are a lawyer, it is your primary duty to secure the confidential data of your clients. You should also be careful that your opposition doesn’t try to break into your computer systems to leak the important information representing your client.
Over the last decade, technology has taken over almost every sector across the globe. It has become an inseparable part of all businesses across the globe that offers any kind of products or Read more…
The Need Of IT Securities In Law Firms
If you think that locking your cars in public places is important, then you should also think about securing the information that you store in your computer systems. Moreover, if you are a lawyer, it is your primary duty to secure the confidential data of your clients. You should also be careful that your opposition doesn’t try to break into your computer systems to leak the information representing your client.
Today, many big law firms are also overlooking the IT security systems. They do this mostly because of the complexity of these security systems and expenses related to them. Whether your Read more…
Keeping your Law Firm Secure
It seems that every week, more corporations are releasing news that they were hacked. Data breaches can affect thousands of people and severely hurt a business. While a law firm may not have the personal information of millions of people, the information that can be stolen can be equally, if not more, detrimental.
Last year, the International Legal Technology Association conducted a survey and came to some scary conclusions. In 2013, 76 percent of law firms did not sue or require two factor authentications, 72 percent did not issue encrypted USB drives and 64 percent do not automatically encrypt content-based emails. Read more…
Reasons Law Firms are Switching to the Cloud
Technology and the IT infrastructure has been evolving dramatically in recent years. New measures such as Bring Your Own Device and the cloud have changed the way that law firms practice and implement technology. While some firms are still hesitant to change their ways, there are many benefits to making the switch.
The advantages that cloud computing offer are huge. Many services can be obtained at a lower cost than running an application using a firm’s own server on premise. Maintenance is typically included in cloud services by the cloud provider, so there’s no need to worry about keeping up with Read more…
Small Firms and Telecommunication Systems
From getting into law school, taking the Bar exam and working in a practice, a lawyer is used to competition. In 2012 there were 1,245,205 licensed lawyers in the United States. A majority of those lawyers work in a private practice and a majority of those law firms have less than 50 people. With that amount of competitors, having the best communication system available can make all of the difference. Discussed in this article are just a few benefits of upgrading from a simple phone line to a new communication system for your small law firm.
Reliability
As a lawyer, it’s necessary Read more…