Google Street View can be intrusive, especially if you had all your windows open when the Google recording vehicle drove by your house. Of course, other people were thrilled that Google Street View preserved them for posterity sitting on their front porch or working in their yard. Before you decide to replace the image of...

In the early days of personal computing, desktop search was sketchy and it was critical to file documents in the proper folder so you could easily locate them again. Here’s a tip related to those early days when file names could only have 11 characters. 2Delete is a file folder name I created for files...

Caller ID was a great tool, at least it was, until the criminals learned to fake it. Google has an interesting new idea that is being rolled out to fight phone spam—verified calls. “Google is slowly rolling out its new “Verified Calls” service, a kind-of supercharged Caller ID that should at least let Android users...

The legal world was already changing before 2020. But all businesses and industries are now looking at all sorts of change driven by the events of 2020. Eight Tips to Thrive in the Evolving Legal Landscape was recently published in Law Technology Today. This column was authored by Bethany Runyon of HighQ, a cloud-based secure...

Lawyers deal with confidential client information and we have a duty to secure that information. But it doesn’t matter who you are or how you use your technology. No one would want to donate, sell or give away a computer or phone without making certain your personal information is wiped. There is just too much...

A web presence is now considered to be a business essential. For small law firms, a website is an increasingly important component of obtaining new business. It may not be that a website itself draws in lots of business. For many potential clients, looking for the lawyer’s website is a qualifier. Even more important is...

As we all understand, much of face-to-face oral communication is driven by non-verbal cues. How many times have you expressed something to someone and knew that they disagreed before the person said a single word? While we are doing much more communication via videoconferencing today, we can understand why veteran trial lawyers sometimes prefer face-to-face...

One of your greatest digital security weaknesses is everyone who answers email in the law firm. So basically, that’s everyone. Lawyers need to ensure there is constant staff training and reminders on how to avoid being caught in a phishing net. The required use of two factor authentication will limit the damage from a successful...

While you don’t have to be a tech genius to fake digital evidence, you may have to hire one to uncover the fake. In Sharon Nelson’s post “Divorce Attorneys Struggle with Faked Cell Phone Evidence in Court,” I promise you will learn of one stupidly simple way to fake text messages.

For our September 2nd tip, we featured My Top Tips for Practicing Law During a Crisis, the “Greatest Hits” of our tips so far this year.