A Word About Zoom for Lawyers

Many lawyers have asked me what I think about Zoom right now for lawyers. I will share some thoughts. Two Ways to Look at Zoom and Video Communication As someone who is both an ethics lawyer and into technology, I am of two minds about the Zoom situation. Zoom lacks a certain level of encryption […]

Lawyers & Employees Working From Home: General Concepts

I promised the PBA Solo and Small Firm Section that I would address specific issues related to managing employees when working from home. I reached out to ask people what they wanted to know about, and there were a lot of questions. Given this, I have decided to break it up into pieces. The number […]

Free Webinar on Starting the Process of Working from Home

Gang, CLEWebinars.com asked me if I would record a free webinar based on my blog post about getting started working from home. This webinar is meant to be basic in nature. It covers the steps you need to take to: Access your documents Make and receive phone calls from a business line Manage your email/contacts/calendars […]

Protect Your Accounts with Two-Factor Authentication

I think someone just tried to steal my Uber account. How do I know this? I know it because I received a text alerting me that I had requested a code. Which I did not request. Let me start at the beginning though. Online Accounts Get Hacked Like many of you, I have a special […]

Starting From Step One: Working From Home

I have spoken to some attorneys who have no idea where to begin when it comes to bringing their law offices home. Unfortunately, due to the situation, they probably will be unable to have the technical support they would normally receive as they move from an old-fashioned practice to one that is able to be […]

Is Your Law Firm’s Data Secure? Common Security Loopholes

I forgot to share the first post I wrote for the PBA Cybersecurity & Data Privacy. I wrote that post last year and it was actually picked up by the PBA’s magazine. As the title suggests, my article focuses on some of the common areas where law firms (and other businesses) are likely to have […]

Tools Lawyers And Others Can Use to Work From Home

The Governor of Pennsylvania just announced that all non-life sustaining businesses are to close their offices by 8:00 pm on Thursday, March 19. I know that some lawyers have not yet closed their offices. In some cases, they are still going into their offices but not seeing clients. That will need to end as of […]

Disabling Amazon’s Employees Listening to Your Alexa

Update: Amazon has disabled the ability to turn this off. I imagine it has something to do with needing data for AI, but don’t quote me on that. Ok folks, yes, Amazon admits its employees sometimes listen to your Alexa recordings. This means that after you have said your wake word, and whatever you said […]