Published By Jim Calloway
Your ABA published a concise feature on risk management for law firms by expert Anthony E. Davis. You may be tempted to skip it. Don't.
As Davis notes, "The words 'risk management' are very negative to lawyers because, by definition, lawyers are risk averse. And if there's anything that lawyers are more hostile to than…
UPDATE: After I did the following post I received several e-mails from readers in Massachusetts noting that the effective date of the new regulation there was delayed until May 1, 2009. My colleague Rodney Dowell of the Massachusetts Law Office Management Assistance Program posted a primer written by one of his state's lawyers on how…
Metadata still remains a huge and often misunderstood topic. Since my article Metadata – What Is It and What Are My Ethical Duties? was published in the Oklahoma Bar Journal on November 8, 2008, I've already had several people contact me and say "Wow, I didn't know anything at all about that. Thanks." When you…
It has been a wild month so far in the financial markets and it doesn’t appear that the roller coaster has come to a complete stop yet. So as possible bank failures loom, some of us are hearing from lawyers concerned about the safety of their client’s funds in their trust accounts and their own…
I saw a full page ad on the back of a law-related magazine a few months back that bothered me. It was placed by a multi-state court reporting firm and offered a $25 gift card in return for the next deposition scheduled with the firm. I imagine that they got a lot of responses. But…
Flooding is still impacting a good bit of the midsection of the U.S. Last week I spoke (via videoconference) to a group of lawyers from the Linn County Bar Association (Cedar Rapids, IA) about disaster recovery. The seminar was put together rather quickly, but they had no lack of offers of assistance. For those who…
UPDATE: Since my original post, David Bilinsky has "responded" and alerted us to that fact that more secure laptops are now in the pipeline and we should expect to be seeing them soon.
How secure is your laptop? David Bilinsky made a blog post that alerted me to his article "Electronic devices – encryption and…
Regular readers of this blog will need no introduction to Ross Kodner, tech consultant extraordinaire. He does some really nice blog posts on his blog, Ross Ipsa Loquitor, and participates in many legal technology-related lists (to pick two of many things i could say about Ross.)
But you really, really, really need to read…
The ABA Journal has just published the Top 10 Ethics Traps with a good cross-section of legal ethics experts contributing. They even tell you how to avoid many of the traps. It is always good to read some "war stories" about mistakes you (hopefully) haven’t made. Nice graphics on the layout, too.
Our latest edition of our podcast series, The Digital Edge: Lawyers and Technology, was posted a couple of weeks ago. It is called "Ethics in the Electronic Era: Staying Out of the Briar Patch." In it Sharon Nelson and I cover many ways that the use of technology increases your risk of ethical missteps. If…