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e-Mail Risk Mitigation For Law Firms
Each day, law firms are entrusted with valuable and sensitive client information. Moreover, attorneys create and handle documents that require strict confidentiality to avoid loss of evidentiary privileges. In today's digital workplace, many of these files are exchanged via e-mail. While e-mail allows for convenience, speed and portability, each attorney using e-mail must ask before sending: “Am I putting my client's confidentiality needs and expectations, as well as my ethical obligations, at risk?”
Now more than ever, data security ' whether when exchanging documents via e-mail, storing them in the cloud, or using other forms of digital collaboration ' must be at the forefront of law firms' priorities. Law firms and individual attorneys are becoming top targets for hackers, which is no surprise based on the volume of intellectual property and financial information handled by lawyers. Opportunities for data breaches abound and they occur among law firms more often than is publicized. Consider, for example, that the New York Times Dealbook published a piece on Citigroup's finding that major U.S. law firms are frequently experiencing data breaches, but they are rarely disclosing this publically to avoid loss of clientele and damage to their reputation.
Law Firms are Reducing Redundant Real Estate by Bringing Support Services Back to the Office
A trend analysis of the benefits and challenges of bringing back administrative, word processing and billing services to law offices.
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
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Risks of “Baseball Arbitration” in Resolving Real Estate Disputes
“Baseball arbitration” refers to the process used in Major League Baseball in which if an eligible player's representative and the club ownership cannot reach a compensation agreement through negotiation, each party enters a final submission and during a formal hearing each side — player and management — presents its case and then the designated panel of arbitrators chooses one of the salary bids with no other result being allowed. This method has become increasingly popular even beyond the sport of baseball.
Disconnect Between In-House and Outside Counsel
'Disconnect Between In-House and Outside Counsel is a continuation of the discussion of client expectations and the disconnect that often occurs. And although the outside attorneys should be pursuing how inside-counsel actually think, inside counsel should make an effort to impart this information without waiting to be asked.