If you’re looking to understand the trends in any industry, perhaps the easiest way is to see what events of significance happened the year before. An analysis of the 2021 legal industry trends necessarily leads us to the seminal year of 2020—when the whole world went remote. The need for remote work, with all of its attendant challenges, is the key trend among lawyers right … [Read more...]
3 Ways to Keep Your Law Firm’s Data Secure
Given that law firms often use personally identifiable information (PII) from their clients, it’s important that they have provisions in place to ensure this information is kept secure. It is believed that as many as a quarter of law firms have been a victim of a data breach. This information alone should be enough incentive to put a plan in place to protect the PII for … [Read more...]
What is Information Governance and what it means for Law Firms
Given the nature of the information that law firms store, they are prime candidates for hackers who are seeking sensitive information. The major fear is that hackers will attack law firms in order to use this data to trade or to give them a commercial or military advantage. In addition, lawyers themselves can be soft targets for hackers, so IT specialists are working hard to … [Read more...]
