Risk Management Question -
What precautions can law firms, along with their lawyers and staff, take when they receive an unexpected request for protected health information (PHI) from someone claiming to be a...more
4/10/2020
/ Cybersecurity ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Employee Training ,
FBI ,
Fraud ,
Law Practice Management ,
PHI ,
Phishing Scams ,
Risk Management ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Scams
Risk Management Question -
What precautions can lawyers, staff, and law firms take to avoid pandemic-related cyber scams?...more
3/21/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Cybersecurity ,
Hackers ,
Law Firm Associates ,
Law Firm Partners ,
Law Practice Management ,
Popular ,
Remote Working ,
Risk Management ,
Scams ,
Telecommuting
Risk Management Question -
Fraudsters seeking to take your money or personal information use a variety of phone scams, including SMSishing (text-based phishing). How can you and your employees protect against phone scams?...more
Risk Management Question -
How can you train your law firm employees to spot bogus charity and disaster relief requests?
The Issue -
Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday—one of the most popular days for charities to ask for...more
Risk Management Question -
How do you recognize and protect against tech support scams?
The Issue -
Many will celebrate this holiday season by treating themselves or a loved one to the gift of technology. A shiny new...more
Risk Management Question -
What steps can law firms take to guard against greeting e-card scams?
The Issue -
Winter is coming, and along with it, your employees may start receiving holiday e-cards on their work...more
Risk Management Question -
As the 2019 holiday season quickly approaches, you can expect a flood of holiday-themed scams. Malicious actors are ready and waiting to exploit the goodwill of the holiday season by trying to...more
Risk Management Question -
What steps can lawyers and law firms take to guard against phishing attacks that try to re-route direct deposit paychecks to a scammer's bank account?...more
Risk Management Question -
The Canadian Trade Commission recently issued a warning about a new email scam that involves the sender posing as a Chinese registrar company and attempting to convince the receiver that an...more
Risk Management Question: October is cyber security awareness month. What steps are you taking to avoid common Internet scams?
The Issue: Hackers and their exploits are growing more sophisticated by the day. Avoiding their...more
Risk Management Question: Personal information about you is knowingly or unwittingly circulated in cyberspace every day. A new cyber extortion scam involves emails claiming to have embarrassing or incriminating information...more
Risk Management Question: How can lawyers identify and avoid increasingly common social engineering scams?...more
Joint Representation — Conflicts of Interest — Waiver -
Foltz v. Columbia Casualty Company, 2016 WL 4734687 (W.D. Ok. 2016) -
Risk Management Issue: Can client A's waiver, given with informed consent, permitting...more