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Cybersecurity’s Role in Legal Transcription

U.S. Legal Support on 5/12/2025

Legal transcription services play a vital role in legal matters, ensuring that live oral arguments and other audio or video content are fully accessible to all stakeholders in text. When managing transcription...more

10 Essential Cybersecurity Questions to Ask When Choosing a Litigation Support Services Partner

U.S. Legal Support on 1/21/2025

In today’s digital age, robust cybersecurity measures are not just optional, but essential for law firms. Discover the critical questions to ask when selecting a litigation support services partner to help ensure your...more

[Webinar] Ethics, Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Data Protection - March 8th, 9:00 am - 10:15 am PST

TransPerfect Legal on 1/24/2024

Join our CLE webinar, "Ethics, Cybersecurity & Data Protection: Mastering Competent Representation," as we explore reasonable steps needed for lawyers to comply with the duty of providing competent representation. Dive into...more

Stemming Losses That Go Uncovered by Cyber Insurance

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC on 10/25/2023

Twenty years ago the federal government designated October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month, part of an early effort to promote a wider appreciation of computer-related threats to business and government operations and to...more

Cyberthreats, Cost-Conscious Clients Loom Large in 2023

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC on 1/24/2023

The end of the calendar year is traditionally an opportunity to reflect on the past and to look ahead – for opportunities and for danger signs. In our corner of the legal services industry, four trends appear worthy of...more

With Threats Rising, New York Mandates Cybersecurity Training for Lawyers

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC on 11/21/2022

Beginning January 1, 2023, all attorneys in New York must take continuing legal education courses on cybersecurity topics as a condition of practicing law in New York. The new continuing legal education requirement, the first...more

Rx for Law Firm Cyberthreats: Planning, Training, and Vendor Due Diligence

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC on 10/4/2022

We’re all familiar with the adage that, for businesses, the question is not “if” but “when” a data breach or ransomware attack will occur. The odds of a cyberattack aren’t as high as death and taxes but they’re approaching a...more

[Webinar] Addressing the Cybersecurity Threat Landscape in the Legal Services Industry - June 29th, 10:00 am PDT

U.S. Legal Support on 6/13/2022

A roundtable discussion with top cybersecurity and industry experts - Cybersecurity needs to be at the forefront of any business, but particularly for those who work in the legal sector. Cybersecurity threats are not only...more

Why a Global Approach to InfoGov is Necessary with Today’s Emerging Markets

Reveal on 9/7/2021

The Legal Technology industry tends to focus heavily on North America, and in many ways, it’s easy to see why. After all, technologies and workflows must align with the jurisdictions they are serving, which vary not only from...more

Law Firms and Cyber Attacks: InfoGov Isn't Just for Corporate Legal Teams Anymore

Reveal on 8/31/2021

From the beginning, Information Governance, or InfoGov, has been focused on helping Corporations manage their data, often involving the legal, compliance, and IT departments working together. But what about a corporation’s...more

Cybersecurity Compliance Programs for Law Firms

Oberheiden P.C. on 7/7/2021

Law firms process sensitive information on a daily basis. Confidential client data is targeted by hackers and insiders for a variety of reasons including financial gain or retaliatory purposes. When a law firm has a security...more

Lawyers Encouraged to Vet Tech Vendors Carefully

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC on 5/3/2021

Law firms are prime targets for hackers. Why? Because their computer networks contain highly concentrated, high-value information about many parties that is often not well-protected. One often-overlooked vulnerability is the...more

Assessing Cyber Insurance Coverage for Data Breach Losses

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC on 1/27/2021

Last week’s article on cybersecurity threats faced by the legal profession did not examine one risk mitigation strategy that is increasingly finding favor among law firms: the purchase of cyber liability insurance policies....more

Socha’s Weekly Trend Report – August 2020 #4

Association of Certified E-Discovery... on 8/25/2020

Notes on recent trends in e-discovery, data privacy, and the use of technology to enhance the practice of law....more

Socha’s Weekly Trend Report – August 2020 #2

Association of Certified E-Discovery... on 8/11/2020

Notes on recent trends in e-discovery, data privacy, and the use of technology to enhance the practice of law....more

How to Guard Against Proliferating COVID-19 Scams

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP on 3/21/2020

Risk Management Question - What precautions can lawyers, staff, and law firms take to avoid pandemic-related cyber scams?...more

ABA Issues Formal Opinion Detailing Lawyer Obligations Relating to Cyber Attack Incidents

Blank Rome LLP on 7/17/2019

Law firms—more so than other business entities—are prime targets, and victims, of computer-network penetration and data theft. Law firms have access to their clients’ personal information, including sensitive, heavily...more

Attorneys Must Consider Ethical Obligations Associated with a Data Breach

Fisher Phillips on 10/31/2018

Most attorneys are well aware of statutory obligations that require private and governmental entities to notify individuals of data breaches that involve the loss or disclosure of personally identifiable information. An area...more

ABA Issues New Cybersecurity Ethics Rules for Lawyers

White and Williams LLP on 10/24/2018

Lawyers are advisors and advocates. Clients trust lawyers to preserve secrets, confidential matters that when disclosed could cause financial or reputational damage. A significant element of legal representation involves...more

GDPR’s Most Frequently Asked Questions: Is a law firm required to respond to a data subject erasure request?

BCLP on 10/10/2018

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") is arguably the most comprehensive - and complex - data privacy regulation in the world. Although the GDPR went into force on May 25, 2018, there continues to...more

ABA Encourages Encryption of Emails When Transmitting Confidential Client Information

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 5/23/2017

In a recent formal Ethics Opinion, the American Bar Association stressed that lawyers must make reasonable efforts to prevent inadvertent or unauthorized access to confidential information relating to the representation of...more

TN Ethics Opinion Approves Lawyers’ Cloud Storage of Client Data

Burr & Forman on 9/25/2015

Tennessee has joined other states in formally approving lawyers’ cloud-storage of client-confidential data. The Board of Professional Responsibility (“BOPR”) held that lawyers ethically may use cloud storage for...more

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