While application programming interfaces (APIs) are nothing new to the legal industry, many organizations’ information security controls may not account for them as much as they should.
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Talking Tech for Solo and Small Law Firms on the Florida Bar’s Legalfuel Podcast
When it comes to legal technology for solo and small law firms, I don’t think there’s a topic we didn’t touch on in this episode of the Florida Bar’s Legalfuel podcast. Hosts Christine Bilbrey, director of the Florida Bar’s practice resource center, and Jamie Moore, practice management advisor, asked me about everything from law practice management platforms
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Cyberattack Forces Biglaw Firm To Take Document Management System Down For Weeks
The firm seems to have recovered after the incident.
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Dark Web Monitoring For Law Firms: Is It Worthwhile?
It is the fear of personal information being disclosed on the dark web that has spurred such great interest in monitoring services.
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Shields Up! What Lawyers Need to Know to Avoid Phishing Attacks
Welcome to a new year! And if you are an attorney in New York, you are welcoming a new category of CLE.
Beginning on July 1, 2023, licensed attorneys in New York will be required to complete one CLE credit hour of cybersecurity, privacy, and data protection training as part of their biennial learning requirement.
While 40 states (as of
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November Cyberattack Hobbled Cadwalader for Weeks, Internal Emails Show
The firm declined to say whether client information was compromised.
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6 Ways Data Privacy Laws Changed in 2022
2022 saw privacy compliance continue to grow more complicated as states have both revised old laws and enacted new ones, expanding the types of data covered under privacy statutes in the U.S., while a federal bipartisan privacy bill still struggles to pass.
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Legal Tech's Milestones for Cybersecurity and Privacy in 2022
Legal industry experts weigh in on the biggest developments in cybersecurity and privacy in the past year.
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For Law Firm Cybersecurity, Does Bigger Mean Better?
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5 Cybersecurity Developments That Changed the Legal Market in 2022
Cybersecurity has been top of mind for all industries in 2022, as geopolitical conflicts and a higher reliance on technology opened organizations to more threats than ever before.
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How AI-Powered eDiscovery Tools Can Overcome Employees' Privacy Concerns
Data collection tools have become incredibly powerful, and many employees might not understand that their capabilities allow employers to access conversations that they thought were private.
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Apple's New Encryption Policy Will Complicate E-Discovery Efforts
Apple will be expanding its security policy to allow end-to-end encryption of iCloud backups, taking away an important channel for data collection and processing from e-discovery professionals and law enforcement.
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Productizing Legal Services: How Law Firms are Implementing Data Breach Tools
By Nathan Alamillo, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law third-year law student, and Dan Linna.
The Catalog of Law Firm Innovations identifies innovative tools that law firms have implemented to improve their delivery of legal services to their clients. An updated version of the Catalog, which will be released in early 2023, contains more than 825 entries, including seventeen law
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4 Court Cybersecurity No-No's: It's Not 'If' or 'When' Anymore; It's 'How Bad?'
Cyberthreats are becoming a daily occurrence across U.S. courts. But many administrators are still caught in old ways of protecting their systems, increasing the likelihood of an especially damaging cyberattack.
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Protecting Client Information on Portable Devices
What if you copied a lot of documents to a USB flash drive for working offline and now you can’t find the drive? Do you have to report this potential breach to firm management or notify the client of this potential breach? Suppose a hacker has gotten into your laptop and perhaps downloaded some files?
The short answer is there
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