“One interesting quote from Edelson in the article: “Firms are incapable of getting the 60-year-old rainmaking partner to not use public Wi-Fi to access client data on a computer that is not secure . . . they are just totally dropping the ball there.” I can’t verify whether that is accurate, but it shouldn’t be happening at large law firms. Hopefully, technology and training together can prevent that problem . . . but maybe I’m wrong . . .”
I’d like to think that sort of thing isn’t happening, but I worked in firms long enough to know that it probably is. Law firms targeted by this class action may find themselves in a bad way legally, and in terms of bad publicity.
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There’s a lot in this to be mindful of when you’re participating in a meeting, or now days if you’re doing a video webinar or broadcast as well, but this one for me is lesson number 1: “Even if you don’t need to be fully engaged in the meeting, your professional reputation can suffer if…
Something that seemed like an obvious feature years ago, but hey, at least they’ve gotten around to it. “Bookmarks provide an alternative to liking a tweet that you might simply be marking as something you want to check out later (instead of actually liking it). “ Looking forward to bookmarking some things to read later…
Should we stop using password managers? No. They are still much better than the alternative (password reuse). Although, taking a second to disable autofill functionality is a good move because this isn’t the first autofill bug we’ve seen, and I doubt it will be the last. Also, this would not work if multi factor authentication…
Got everything ready to go for tomorrow, assuming no one comes up with a bizarre request at the last minute. (That never happens, does it? *L*) So, I’m looking at today’s news: As if my road trip craving wasn’t bad enough, Dane is pointing to Taken on the Road, a nice collection of pictures from…
If you work with eDiscovery, you’ve been here: You know what I’m talking about — where the client wants to wait and wait and wait on engaging in discovery until the last possible minute to avoid unnecessary costs, requiring everyone to run around crazy for days on end when the client realizes that deadlines are…
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“One interesting quote from Edelson in the article: “Firms are incapable of getting the 60-year-old rainmaking partner to not use public Wi-Fi to access client data on a computer that is not secure . . . they are just totally dropping the ball there.” I can’t verify whether that is accurate, but it shouldn’t be happening at large law firms. Hopefully, technology and training together can prevent that problem . . . but maybe I’m wrong . . .”
