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How Software Updates can Become an Ethics Issue for Law Firms

 

Why is it so important for your law firm to keep is software updated? Well, American Bar Association (ABA) Ethics now demand it. Unless your office does not use computer technology at all, there is no longer any excuse to lag behind your competitors. Nothing stands still on the internet, not even the ways by…

Digital Convergence: From Maybe to Mandatory

  

Maintaining a healthy level of interaction with your clients is almost as important as acquiring new ones. The cloud is the new reality In previous eras of computing, running proprietary software on office workstations was the only way to get things done. License keys had to be bought and managed, computers had to be loaded…

Taking the Law into Your Own Handheld: Viivo’s Encryption Service for the Cloud

 

Attorneys are uniquely affected by an obligation to keep client documents secure, and Viivo can help. Lawyers are concerned about the privacy and the protection of their documents, and rightfully so. Many items an attorney handles are highly sensitive and legally bound to confidentiality. Any breach of confidential files would be a major setback, and…

Ask an Expert: Harnessing Competitive Intelligence for Legal Marketing

 

Marketing professionals have always needed to study their clients’ competitors: to respond to their tactics and claims, to see where they are improving and succeeding most and to identify their own client’s unique strengths. But with the explosion of internet and social media marketing, that task became monumentally more complex. And the number of client-crucial…

Up Next in Tech: A look at the Annual Consumer Electronics Show

The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas showcased products for everyone to look forward to in the coming year. Rather than finding the one gadget to rule them all, attendees were introduced to myriad specialty electronics that do specific things very well. 4,000 things to consider when buying a new TV Offering 3D…

Taking the Law Into Your Own Handheld: Deadlines on Demand

 

Can Deadlines on Demand help prevent firms from missing crucial deadlines? Attorneys at a busy law office know the results of a missed deadline. It’s a demon that can keep you up at night. Is the brief scheduled to be submitted on the right day? Were court days counted, not calendar days? Calculating each deadline…

Gamification: How to use games to motivate and educate

 

Gamification is becoming serious business in the corporate world. Now, the legal industry is beginning to take notice of the potential for gamification to enhance performance and profits. Turning a task into a game is a great way to keep someone’s attention and motivate them to learn and to perform. Teachers and parents have used…

Mootus: A New Forum for Legal Argument Online

 

Easy, instant crowdsourcing is one of the great boons of the online age, but attorneys have been slow to take advantage of it in their work. Some social networking websites, like LinkedIn, offer groups where legal strategies are sometimes submitted to the wisdom of the crowd, but legal research itself remains, for the most part,…

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