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How Law Firms Can Avoid A Summer of Cyberattack Threats
Summer at law firms creates an attack surface of which hackers love to take advantage. Legal and support staff rotate through vacations and time off, new crops of interns unfamiliar with tech processes enter the fold, and the remaining employees are often burned out and too distracted to notice the critical signs of an impending cyberattack.
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One Overlooked Element of Executive Safety: Data Privacy
Executives have access to some of the company's most sensitive information, and they're increasingly being targeted by hackers looking to steal company secrets or to perpetrate cybercrimes.
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How Modern Law Firms Are Navigating Digital Transformation
A new report emphasizes the connection between legal technology and law firm success, the importance of training to ensure technology adoption, the influence of automation and document management on digital transformation, and how law firms are deploying data to create a competitive advantage.
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Potential Legal Pitfalls for Public Companies Due to SEC's New Cybersecurity Rules
Some 16 months after first proposing rules for public companies and investment advisors, the SEC adopted new rules, chief among them that public companies disclose material cybersecurity breaches to investors within four days.
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AI-Generated Content, Deepfakes and New Data Push the Limits of Civil Procedure
How will traditional tools and techniques need to adapt to handle new data challenges that have never been encountered by digital forensics specialists or lawyers?
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Automating Onboarding and Offboarding Is Key to Legal Industry Transformation
Automate Onboarding & Offboarding Processes for Smoother Transitions Questions about the role of AI in the legal market continue to dominate current headlines, but firm consolidation remains a big part of the transformation the industry is undergoing. And yes, technology and automation are playing key parts in this. As firms merge or acquire others to expand their capabilities and client base, a streamlined approach to attorney onboarding and offboarding has become essential.
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Cool Your (Data) Jets! Reducing Your Organization's Carbon Footprint with a Data Retention Policy
Despite great strides toward better-for-the-world operating procedures, companies might be surprised to learn that they're likely overlooking one area of their business that heavily contributes to its overall carbon footprint — data storage. That's right: storing your company's data generates emissions. And with the continuous increase in data volumes, the impact will likely only grow.
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AI Is Coming To Microsoft 365: What You Need to Know
For those using Microsoft 365, AI tools are rapidly becoming a reality, as Microsoft has introduced and announced several applications with AI-driven components, including Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams Premium, and Microsoft Copilot.
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The 5 Current Top Law Firm Business Development Trends
As firms strive to remain competitive in an increasingly crowded marketplace, marketing and business development professionals can and should play a critical role in driving growth and helping generate revenue.
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Blazing Saddles or Blazing Trails: e-Discovery vs. Forensic Data Collection — Unraveling the Critical Differences
Attorneys interested in legal technology, data security and e-discovery must grasp the critical differences between two essential methodologies: e-discovery and digital forensics. This article delves into the contrasting features of these methodologies to help attorneys who engage with legal technology better understand the significance of these differences.
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