Maine Law Practice Management

The news surrounding data breaches is always big, national or international in scale, involving lots and lots of money, and big names and big companies .  Of course, smaller data breaches happen everyday , to unknown and unnamed victims .  Some of those victims are law firms.     But, you don’t have to make big changes to improve the state of your law firm’s data security protocols .  In fact, there’s one change you can make today, that will markedly improve your system security.     That’s adding two-factor authentication to your accounts and/or for accounts that you administer .  Essentially , two-factor authentication requires an additional data input beyond a password .  A common method is to require that an additional passcode be entered, which can be sent via SMS or email .  When a new login to the system is made, or when a login comes from an unusual location or a unknown IP address, the passcode is sent .  Obvio...

What’s been great lately, is that lawyers are increasing their reliance on technology .  That means that law firms are adding efficiency, and revenue.     This is fantastic , absolutely .  But, there’s still more work to do.     That’s because lawyers may be overpaying for technolog y; and, it’s largely because they’re buying new stuff without looking harder at what they already have.   In fact , there are lots of instances where attorneys will purchase a new product without assessing whether they have that tool already included as a feature in another technology platform .  This often happens with productivity software and law practice management software .  The former can include tools like video conferencing and internal chat as product features (meaning you don’t have to pay any more money to use them); and, the latter can include tools like e signature and epayment as product features .  In some cases, and depending on...