In a world where unfamiliar and complex communications systems are the norm, it is not only the legislatively naive and digitally undereducated who are subject to expensive cons and scams. This difficult lesson was driven home at Dentons Canada last year during a real estate transaction, when an associate inadvertently wired $2.5 million to a
Failure to Encrypt Email Can Put Lawyers at Risk
An editorial in the Akron Legal News reminds lawyers of the urgency of securing their law-related email. In May, 2017, the American Bar Association issued Formal Opinion #477R, which suggests guidelines for “Securing Communication of Protected Client Information.” The ABA opinion points out that:
A lawyer generally may transmit information relating to the representation
Cybersecurity Essential to Law Firms
In an article on law-firm cybersecurity that appeared in LawTech News in June 2017, Ian Lopez said: “According to a recent report from IT security provider LogicForce, hacking attempts were made on over 200 U.S. law firms between 2016 and 2017, 40 percent of which didn’t even know that they had been breached.”
Lopez also
Lessons from HBO’s Game of Thrones about Email Security
A recent article in The Verge describes the challenges faced by the wildly popular Game of Thrones series on HBO when it comes to protecting secrecy around the plots of future episodes. Among the steps the show has taken to address these privacy challenges is two-step verification of emails, a strategy any industry or profession
Cybersecurity: A Growing Area of Practice
In June, Bloomberg BNA reported that Akerman had become the latest law firm to venture deeply into the field of data security and information governance when it established an 18-person group specializing in data law.
Martin Tully, co-chair of the new Akerman group, told Bloombeg that “while the breaches at Target make national headlines, smaller
Fake Legal Websites using Profiles of Real Lawyers
Several publications, including the BBC online, are warning the public to double-check the credentials of lawyers they find on the Internet before giving them any personal banking or credit-card information. There are growing numbers of reports of unscrupulous sites that have copied information about reputable lawyers from highly regarded firms onto their own sites,
“Competitive Intelligence” and the Practice of Law
The Legal Intelligencer has launched a series of articles that focus on “competitive intelligence” in the context of legal practice.
The term “competitive intelligence” refers to the ways in which one company makes itself aware of what other companies in the same field (i.e., its “competitors”) are doing. This may include tracking their business practices,
SECURITY — a lucrative future-oriented practice area awaiting your firm
Greg George, Managing Partner of top security firm GTI Advisors Threat Management Practice Group has created a comprehensive due diligence report — among his many recommendations, he suggests that businesses consult a law firm – is your law firm ready to answer that call? SECURITY may be a lucrative future-oriented practice area awaiting your firm.
Will economic hardship mean more client/law-firm fraud?
Perhaps these troubled times will motivate more attempts to defraud law firms – Managing Partners, what have you done to strengthen security lately?