Published By Jim Calloway
Identity theft is a major problem. If you do any sort of client newsletter, you should think about giving your clients some information on this important topic.
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has a lengthy set of Identity Theft Resources, including numerous Fact Sheets.
The Federal Trade Commission’s Identity Theft site has good consumer information and…
Think of all of the information contained on all of the mobile phones, flash drives, MP3 players, portable hard drives, backup tapes and other information storage devices that can be carried in a pocket or hand bag. Then think of the number of news items you have read in the last year or so about…
PC World recently published a feature entitled "How to Survive the Worst PC Disasters."
Lots of good advice is contained there.
Yes, now that so many of you are thinking of summer vacations and fun in the sun, my normally cheery blog will turn to the dark side as we explore common law firm disasters and, more importantly, how to avoid them or recover from them. It is Disaster Week on Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips!…
The Internet brings great information and access, but it also brings dangers. We’ve seen viruses, spammers, spyware and computer hijackers. We try to cope with all of these dangers as best we can. Now a report from Google outlines a new form of threat: Web pages that can infect your computer when you merely visit…
It wasn’t that long ago that most people had a very few passwords. Now most people have many, many passwords. From your office computer’s login to online legal research to all sorts of online sites that require registration, you may have dozens of passwords. And many of you have passwords that are woefully insecure. You…
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"Managing Clients’ Funds and Avoiding Ethical Problems" by Jayne B. Tyrrell and Stephen M. Casey is our Website of the Week this week. Admittedly this is a little different type of Website. It’s really just a hypertext-linked CLE paper on trust accounting. But, considering that a number of lawyers get into trouble with trust accounting…
OK, here’s your scary discovery in online technology of the month. Well, at least it was a discovery for me.
Go to http://www.friendlycanadian.com/applications/clipboard.htm
(I’m assuming you will have already used copy and paste or cut and paste today. If not, copy something to your clipboard and then refresh the page.)
Yes, by the default settings…
Disasters come in all shapes and sizes. A parent dying and leaving small children is an unmitigated disaster to the family. As far as they are concerned, it is of more significance to them than the Gulf Coast hurricanes. The family disaster is worse if the deceased was the family breadwinner without adequate life insurance…