Tools to Spice Up a PowerPoint Presentation

By John Edwards All Articles, Law Technology News, April 30, 2012 Creating compelling and persuasive Microsoft PowerPoint presentations requires some technical and artistic knowledge, a little imagination, and hours of hard work. Unfortunately, PowerPoint supplies only a limited selection of design templates and visual effects. That’s why so many PowerPoint presentations, regardless of their subject [...]

Google Drives Recent Flurry of Cloud Services

By Evan Koblentz ContactAll Articles, Law Technology News, April 26, 2012 Cloud services became somewhat more accessible to legal professionals this week, as technology giants and niche players alike introduced new supporting products. Meanwhile, experts continue to note that while putting your data online is trendy, the question of whether its advantages outweigh its drawbacks [...]

Compliance Focus, Employee Error Lead to Health Care Data Breaches

By Catherine Dunn ContactAll Articles, Corporate Counsel, April 20, 2012 A new report on data breaches in the health care sector reveals the pervasive problem of security threats posed by employees, and indicates that providers often prioritize compliance with government regulations at the expense of implementing comprehensive security measures to safeguard patient information. “While organizations [...]

Law Firm Branding 101: How to Develop Your Niche

By Maryam K. Ansari, Esq. on  April 11, 2012 5:01 AM| No TrackBacks If you’re starting a solo practice or you’re already  running your own practice, you already know the value of  branding yourself. Remember, branding involves a multitude of things for your practice. First you need to develop a niche. Once you  determine what [...]

Top 5 Online Resources for New Solo Lawyers

By Maryam K. Ansari, Esq. on  April 23, 2012 5:03 AM| No TrackBacks If you’ve recently decided to hang up your shingle,  you’re mind is probably swimming with questions in how to start a law firm. Don’t worry. There’s a whole world of information out there, on the world  wide web. Several years ago, the [...]

An Early Look at Windows Server 8

By Ed Mikuszewski All Articles, Law Technology News, April 20, 2012 Microsoft has recently released a suite of new operating systems and application suites for consumer and technical previews — Office 15, Windows 8, and Windows Server 8 Beta are among the new products. Windows Server 8 Beta (“Server 8″) improves upon the industry standard [...]

Her PC Doesn’t Just Get Mad, It Gets Even

By Amy F. Goodusky All Articles, The Connecticut Law Tribune, April 18, 2012 While I am on the subject of machines we deal with daily in the office and the overwhelming temptations they inspire in us to discharge large bore shotguns in their direction when they malfunction or consume time which would otherwise be billable [...]

6 Ways to Prevent Data From Walking Out the Office Door

By Laura M. Merritt and Charles T. Graves All Articles, Texas Lawyer, April 11, 2012 Gone are the days when an engineer graduated from college, worked at a large company for 40 years, and retired with a pension and a gold watch. Due to increased corporate-structure shifts, a general working culture of free agency and [...]

Can the Government Force the Surrender of Encryption Keys?

By Joshua A. EngelAll Articles, Law Technology News, April 11, 2012 The encryption of documents and records by businesses and consumers has grown in recent years. This is especially true as more records are stored in the cloud. Encrypted data is accessible only through the use of a password or encryption key, and this encryption [...]

Here’s What Facebook Sends the Cops When They Subpoena Your Activity

By Stephanie Rabiner, Esq. on April 11, 2012  4:57 AM| Ever wonder what happens when law enforcement subpoenas Facebook? Well, it’s not pretty. The Boston Police Department provided journalists at the Boston Phoenix a copy of its Craigslist Killer case file. In that file was a nearly 70-page paper printout of Philip Markoff’s Facebook information. [...]