Law Practice Management and Technology
The Bottom Line Volume 34, No.3, August 2013
Content
- MCLE Self-Study Article: Cybersecurity -- a Top of Mind Issue That Companies Must Consider
- MCLE Self-Study Article: the Advanced Persistent Attack and What Your Law Firm Should Do
- Book Review By Larry Meyer
- Coach's Corner: Technology, Competence and Risk in Data Security and Privacy
- MCLE Self-Study Article: Addressing Social Media Security and Privacy Challenges
- MCLE Self-Study Article: Data Security Breach Notification Laws: How They Affect Your Law Firm and Your Clients
- MCLE Self-Study Article: "Naked Online", an Excerpt from the Book "Protecting Your Internet Security"
- MCLE Self-Study Article: the Attorney as Employer: the Law Regarding Employee Privacy in Social Media Posts
- MCLE Self-Study Article: Using Client Portals to Protect Your Clients’ Privacy
- MCLE Self-Study Article: What Is Privacy in the Information Age?
- Message from the Chair: Privacy at Risk
- Message from the Guest Editor: Protecting Privacy in Your Law Practice
Message from the Guest Editor: Protecting Privacy in Your Law Practice
By Mari Frank, Esq., CIPP
Privacy – like eating and breathing –
is one of life’s basic requirements
— Katherine Neville, Author:
A Calculated Risk
What is privacy in the information Age? How are we as lawyers (not techies) to keep up with the lightning speed technological advances which expose sensitive data in our office to careless security breaches, unscrupulous insiders, and malicious hacking? How can we best protect our clients, our law practices, and ourselves from privacy violations? What are the vulnerabilities and ethical challenges that we face when our staff or we engage in social media? What office policies should we implement and enforce to be compliant with the California Rules of Professional Conduct and California civil law?