ABA offers ethical guidance on responding to negative online reviews
Online reviews are great for consumers, but for business owners, navigating the world of online reviews can be tricky since responses to reviews, both negative and positive, are decidedly public. This confounding newfound reality can present problems for lawyers seeking to respond to negative online reviews since doing so can sometimes trigger ethics rules regarding confidential information.
Marketing stuff to do during COVID: Leverage LinkedIn!
With COVID-19’s impact on all aspects of professional (and personal) life, there is a silver lining for legal marketers and communications professionals: They are poised to make a substantial impact on how law firm leadership and partners value social media initiatives.
How the frenzy of innovation will aid law firms in a post-pandemic world
COVID-19 has sparked an unprecedented surge of innovation within the legal profession. In some cases, the future has simply arrived way ahead of schedule, as a leisurely evolution toward things like paperless offices and cloud-based computing got kicked into overdrive because of social distancing requirements.
Colorado Bar opinion on ethical obligations in a data breach
When the pandemic hit, most lawyers began to work from home, oftentimes exclusively. Many continue to do so today out of necessity or preference. As a result, practicing law virtually [...]
Lawyers and remote work: ‘No universal truth’
Kevin Mulvehill Kevin J. Mulvehill, a partner with Phillips Lytle LLP and the firm’s Rochester, New York, office leader, says that there is no “universal truth” on whether [...]
Law firm leaders draw business lessons from COVID crisis
Law firm managers are gleaning lessons for their future business operations from changes in the workplace necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Most notably, firms that have had a positive experience [...]
Tips for the pandemic-era trial lawyer
No matter how much your law school covered in those three years, trying a case in the middle of a pandemic was probably not on the syllabus. And even the [...]
Staying cyber-secure while working from home
With work-from-home assuming a permanently larger position in the legal profession, cybersecurity experts say that attorneys now need to be more vigilant than ever in keeping their data safe and their clients’ confidentiality secure.
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