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Mask Up! How to Choose and Maintain the Best Masks for Use Against COVID-19 (December 2, 2020)
It appears we still have a few more months of mask wearing ahead and research has shown some of those neck gators are as bad as not wearing a mask at all. So, what’s the best type of mask? Ars Technica has a nice feature — Mask up! How to choose and maintain the best...
Cybersecurity for Attorneys: The Ethics of Incident Response (December 1, 2020)
American Bar Association Formal Opinion 477R (May 2017), …. describes the current threat environment: “Cybersecurity recognizes a … world where law enforcement discusses hacking and data loss in terms of ‘when,’ and not ‘if’…” a company (or law firm) will be breached. The above paragraph is from Cybersecurity for Attorneys: The Ethics of Incident Response...
Planning the Year Ahead: Being Nice as a Strategy
By Jim Calloway Rarely can I write something believing 100% of readers will enthusiastically agree. But we are all done with 2020. It is time for a new year. Some lawyers have practices that hum in December, often trying to close deals before the end of the year. Others tend to have things slow down...
Lawyer Tech Tips: Technology Treats to Brighten Year’s End from Attorney at Work (November 30, 2020)
After last week’s Tech Toys for the Holidays podcast and some links to other tech gift collections, one might assume I might have completed the tech gift suggestions for the season. But, not so fast! Lawyer Tech Tips: Technology Treats to Brighten Year’s End from Attorney at Work features an ensemble cast of technology tipsters...
Great Tech Gift Ideas Can Also be Found at ZDNet (November 25, 2020)
Completing this week’s holiday shopping tips trilogy is the ZDNet Holiday Gift Guide 2020. Another reputable product review website, ZDNet began as a subscription-based digital service called "ZiffNet" that offered computing information to users of CompuServe. (Some will recall that first version of OBA-NET was also hosted on CompuServe.) It has a long online history,...
You Can Find More Technology-Oriented Gift Suggestions at C|Net’s Holiday Gift Guide 2020 (November 24, 2020)
C|Net is one of my go-to websites for ethical and quality tech product reviews. So C|Net always has a massive holiday gift guide and its Holiday Gift Guide 2020 is no exception. For those shopping for gifts on a budget, it has sections for gifts under $30 and under $50. If you know what you...
Check Out the Tech Toys for the Holidays Podcast (November 23, 2020)
It’s that time of year with the kickoff of the holiday shopping season. And once again, Jim Calloway and Sharon Nelson bring you Tech Toys for the Holidays 2020 on their Digital Edge podcast. The Digital Edge hosts offer up their favorite practical and not-so practical tech toys this year with plenty of remote work...
Should You Copy Clients on Emails to Opposing Counsel? (November 20, 2020)
This is a very nice treatment of this issue from my friend Nicole Black— Should you copy clients on emails to opposing counsel? Those who have read my musings on the subject know I think BCC should never been used for email, unless you are using that technique to file the emails within your system,...
Some Ethics Guidance on Social Media is in the post Blogging, Posting and Ethics — Oh, My! (November 19, 2020)
Today’s tip is from Attorney@Work and Will Hornsby, who is an attorney focused on the professional responsibility of innovative and tech-based legal services. He served as staff counsel in the ABA’s Division for Legal Services for 30 years. His post Blogging, Posting and Ethics — Oh, My! is very useful information for any attorney who...
Increasing Your Visibility in a Virtual World (November 18, 2020)
Dennis Garcia is an Assistant General Counsel for Microsoft. I have mentioned him before in my 2020 tips. He recently delivered a presentation to the Microsoft Legal Department Latinx employee community about strategies for remaining visible – and increasing visibility – in the workplace despite working in a remote environment. He shared his tips in...