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 […]

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 […]

Laptop Plugged in Won’t Charge

I just experienced the problem of my having my laptop plugged in but not charging. The problem came out of the blue, when I purchased a new adapter for my laptop. I put back in the old adapter, but my laptop (HP Spectre 360) still wouldn’t charge. Given the timing and the fact that my […]

Keeping Your Data Secure – Powerpoint

Presentation for the Philadelphia chapter of NALS on Keeping Your Data Secure. This powerpoint provides advice to the layperson on basic steps they can take to protect themselves.  

Time for a Technology Checkup?

This post was originally written in 2011. I updated it in May 2026. Law firms are buying AI tools at a frantic pace. Many of those purchases will sit unused. Others will get used badly. That isn’t a new issue. Firms have always made the same mistakes when buying technology. The advice from 2011 still […]

How I Preserve Website Evidence

The Steps I Take to Preserve Website Evidence at L&A Sometimes, the content I write for Lowenthal & Abrams crosses boundaries and might be of interest to those who read this site. Today I wrote about how I use a program called I use a program called HtTrack to preserve website evidence.

I Tried ParkWhiz

ParkWhiz Says it Helps Make Parking Easy Recently, I had occasion to drive into New York City with my sister, Loren, my nephew Tyler and my niece, Maddie. My sister told me she would be staying in the City for a while and, so, of course, I told her to stay over the night before […]