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2024 Law Firm Data Security Guide: How to Keep Your Law Firm Secure

Clio

Law firm data security should be a top priority for any practice, and here’s why: Clients trust you with their most confidential information. Since clients entrust lawyers with so much of their sensitive data, law firms make prime targets for cybercrime. You don’t want your law firm to become part of that statistic.

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Unlikely Careers for Lawyers

Legal Talk Network

Legal Marketer Marketing is not usually associated with law, but for many legal marketers, it’s the perfect way to leverage their communication skills. In general, legal marketers oversee marketing activities and operations for legal clients, law firms, and solo lawyers.

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Emerging Areas of Legal Practice: How Technology Has an Impact

Martindale-Avvo

As generative AI continues to roll out everywhere from Google search results to chatbots on law firm websites, more legal action over the training material is sure to arise. There are a few proposed federal laws to manage deepfakes, but so far there is no comprehensive piece of legislation.

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Staying Compliant in U.S. Investigations: How to Protect Privacy Without Losing Momentum 

Lineal Services

For global organizations and international law firms, conducting internal investigations that involve U.S. privacy compliance depends on navigating a maze of federal statutes, state-level laws, and industry-specific regulations. Instead, U.S. Data Retention: A Double-Edged Sword U.S.

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Contingency Fees: A Complete Guide for Law Firms

CaseFox

This percentage may vary according to the federal laws. Offering contingency fees as a lawyer or firm is beneficial, but you should also have alternative fee arrangements for other clients. In this way, your law firm pricing can be more client-centric and you can attract clients with different fee structure needs.

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How to Make Sure Your Law Firm's Website is ADA Compliant

Centerbase

We’ll also dive into how to make your law firm website accessible and why, above all, accessibility matters and should be strived for. The ADA is a federal law enacted in 1990. Making your law firm’s website ADA compliant is good for everyone. Let’s get moving! What is the ADA? What is ADA compliance?

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Pandemic-Related Legal Ethics Opinions: A Compendium

LawSites

Synopsis: This opinion addresses a law firm’s ethical obligations when most of its lawyer and nonlawyer staff work remotely. This practice may include the law of their licensing jurisdiction or other law as permitted by ABA Model Rule 5.5(c) Issues addressed: Working remotely. and 5.3). Working remotely.