The Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Committee On Legal Ethics And Professional Responsibility has just released Formal Opinion 2011-200, Ethical Obligations For Attorneys Using Cloud Computing/Software As A Service While Fulfilling The… [more]
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New Ethics Opinion on Cloud Computing From the Pennsylvania Bar
by Dan Pinnington
November 23rd, 2011
We all like to avoid thinking about bad things like earthquakes, tornadoes and other natural disasters. We also tend to avoid thinking about other things that might impact on our… [more]
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2011 issue of LAWPRO Magazine. All issues of the magazine can be found at www.lawpro.ca/magazinearchives.… [more]
Technology is becoming an ever greater part of
Saying More With Fewer Characters: A Modest Proposal for a Twitter RT Taxonomy
by Dan Pinnington
November 10th, 2011
Fellow Ontario lawyer and blogger Antonin Pribetic tweeted the following earlier this evening:
An RT taxonomy: RT+ (agree), RT- (disagree) RT= (indifferent), RT? (confusing), RT± (undecided), RT☀ (interesting), RT! (check … [more]
If You Build It – They Will Come – but Only if They Can Find Your Links
by Dan Pinnington
November 7th, 2011
Loads of lawyers and law firms are posting content in various forms all over the Web. Firm websites, LinkedIn or Facebook updates, tweets, blog posts and comments, and so on.… [more]
How to Report (And Stop) Fraud Attempts Using Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail Addresses
by Dan Pinnington
October 31st, 2011
Followers of the AvoidAClaim blog will know that fraud attempts against lawyers show no sign of slowing down. Almost daily we see new names and new email addresses being used.… [more]
Klout’s recent tweaking of it influence scoring algorithm has a lot of people questioning the value of the various online tools that measure influence – especially those that saw their… [more]
Beware of “rumor about you” DM that is Twitter account hijack exploit
Earlier this afternoon I received the following message from a lawyer I know: “There is a rumor/blog going… [more]
Huge Collection of Fake IDs, Documents and Cheques Given to Lawyers by Fraudsters
by Dan Pinnington
October 24th, 2011
Fraud attempts against lawyers can involve a great deal of counterfeit documentation, starting with the initial client ID (passports, licenses), various agreements, loan documents and bank statements, and ending with… [more]
The following article by Nora Rock appears in the Fall 2011 issue of LAWPRO Magazine. … [more]
At LAWPRO, we’ve seen a growing proportion of incivility allegations cropping up in claims. For
The Fall 20011 issue of LAWPRO Magazine features an article called Let's Get Talking, in which LAWPRO canvassed a number of people inside and outside the legal profession on the… [more]
by Dan Pinnington
September 19th, 2011
The following article by Tim Lemieux is from the latest Fall 2011 issue of LAWPRO Magazine. It looks at communications-related claims at LAWPRO in different areas of law and asks … [more]
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